Monthly Archives: March 2012

Squiggles 2

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I’ve agreed for the mostly part
that squiggles are simply sketches,
but the lines are starting to stretch
into designs I could call art.

If my designs could be called art,
I need to keep the shapes confined
and stay within popular lines
but squiggles are beings apart.

Being apart from art squiggles
don’t have to be neat or too smart
but they do need a large, large heart
to leap to life from a scribble.

A squiggle doesn’t leap to life whole
from a pencil and a blank page,
but are like players on the stage
creating themselves through a role.

Creating oneself through a role
can be hard on the creator,
but who knows which job is greater,
giving or receiving the soul.

Giving or receiving a soul
is granted to any artist
when color and line persist
long enough in time to be whole.

-Lynne

Squiggles

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Erased graphite pencil scrawls roll
across my latest squiggle sketch
because I have to really stretch
to keep the lines in my control.

In my control I keep the lines
after the initial scribble
the kneaded eraser nibbles
until I reach my own designs.

Until I reach my own designs
the shape wriggles before my eyes
while I decide how the page lies
searching for figures in the lines.

In the lines I search for figures
a man, a dog, an elephant
and ink the shape that’s relevant
outlining my colored pictures.

My colored pictures are outlined
with a Copic fine fountain pen
the ink when I erase again
stays put and leaves no smear behind.

Ink leaves no smear behind and stays
in its outline as I color
block true blue and yellow ochre
over goldenrod and green sage.

Sage green and goldenrod cover
only within the space of shape
since I mustn’t let scribbles escape
while acquiring their base color.

Acquiring their base color while
they wait for contour, depth and shade
my scribbles pretend they’re self made
and begin to dance a twist freestyle.

Scribbles dance a loose freestyle twist
until they’re firmly penned down
into squiggles with smiles or frowns
like forms revealed by fading mist.

A mist fading reveals true forms
just as pencils use white paper
and primary colors as shapers
composing squiggles not yet born.

Squiggles born but not yet composed
begin with a base of yellow,
just add red then blue for mellow
brown tweeds so no squiggle’s exposed.

They’re not exposed with their brown tweeds
and skirts of Caribbean blue
for nude squiggles I never drew
and for the most part they’ve agreed.

-Lynne