From a dream

A Katherine Bradford Superman painting!

Bonanza: A Poem

Bonanza

We are on a journey,

a journey over the western plains,

Hoss Cartwright sits upon an elephant

 as he leads us all.

 He is Majesty complete, thinks I, 

he perches with such dignity.

 The elephant rolls along as

 if on roller skates.

 His trunk points

 the way west across the prairie.

 Our mood is gay as we progress 

 across the parched land and 

 we anticipate only great things.

As we get up one morning I look ahead 

 at a broad expanse of nothing much

 a lot of scrub and brush

 “Can anything be that flat?” I ask.

 “Yes” Hoss tells me, 

 “One day, this will be Kansas.”

 Hoss has dressed as the Pope today

The mitred hat,

 the carmine robe.

 He loves the drag and thinks it keeps our spirits high.

 The elephant’s trunk still points west.

 The pope’s hat points to heaven.

 Members of our party are

 spread out before us.

 We travel on elephants, 

 wagons and feet 

 and we go on.

©Kathryn Collins

Growth

I received a comment on this blog in my email this morning. A comment on a poem I had posted years ago. A nice comment, happily. I realized I had forgotten about this blog entirely. I do most of my posting, if any, on Facebook, and there I mostly post other artists work I admire. I have stopped writing about my work. I have slowed down doing any work. My depression has gotten the better of me and it has silenced me. So I decided to post this painting from a few years ago. I had to figure out how to use Blogger again. I hope this works.  Maybe more to come. Must free myself.