Fallen Cherry Blossoms from Wobbly Piano Stool With Yellow Cloth and Sunflowers

(water color on paper
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Spring, spring, spring!

Days of rain weighted down

By shirt on shirt on shirt

On jacket on shell on and on

And on …

Signs of winter sleeping,

Little buds peak through

Silvery crimson bark

Of apple, plum, and cherry tree.

One week passes to show

First the Pink,

Nature’s ambers glowing

Growing soon to blossoms

White with shades of red and blue.

Walking under canopies

Tangling sight and scent

Darting wings and loping paws

Round trunks, through twig

While tiny pedals cling.

Winter stretches, yawns one

Last time to leave a

Sudden heavy snow,

Competing with the lovely

Trees for light.

Soon to melt, in the wake

Lower branches bend to

Snap!

A painter’s gift.

Lime yellow jar,

Arrangement perched

Up on a wobbly stool

Adorned with cloth of

Jaune and Sunflowers.

To capture

Memory and light

With brush, water, pigment,

Eyes and heart.

Drop and stroke

Pause, ponder, paint.

Then, a great mistake.

Wagging tail darts …

Stool stands no more.

Scattered elements

Upon the floor

Sitting between art and

Mess, each the same.

Creation done.

Observations from a walk with my companion dog, Georgia, during the last days of winter and then my experience painting.  Spring was starting to, well, “spring” with rows of cherry trees throughout parks and along streets.  Several branches broke from a heavy wind the night before, I collected them and returned home.  The branches were arranged in a lime green vase then placed on a wobbly piano stool.  I began to paint until an unfortunate circumstance allowed the stool to wobble tossing the branches to the floor … a sign to end the painting.