August Blog Bash, Day 29 - Roslyn Ross @rosross

Welcome to the Debut
of the August Blog Bash 2012!

I am very much excited and honored to be hosting this new feature series... and it is a great way to end the summer!  This Blog Bash is an impressive talent showcase of poets, artists, and writers/authors from all walks of life.  For each day of this month, one individual will be featured here on this blog, at Origami Lotus Stones, my Twitter (hashtag will be #augblogbash), my Facebook community page, and on my blog page on Writing Our Way Home.  Please be patient while I post on all platforms.

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Today's Feature:  Roslyn Ross

I love the colors in this painting as it's both a mixture of earthy tones and specks of vibrant reds and yellows in the foreground of the painting.  It looks like we're on top of a hill enjoying the scenery around us.  However, it is quite difficult to determine what is in the distance on that hill (center).  Is it a fort or an assembly of militia?  It looks like there are many tiny flags waving in the distance.  Perhaps Kimberley Country, Australia is a significant place for the artist in some way, or perhaps it is a historical place that has made a profound effect on the artist.  The smudgy look of the brushstrokes in the foreground implies a well-travelled place (at least to me).  However the viewer interprets or perceives this painting, one is very curious about the painting itself as I'm sure that behind every created piece, there is a reason or history for the work.

In this poem, the language is slightly more archaic than most contemporary poems.  However, I feel as if though this poem is up to reader's interpretation.  For me, the very meaning of the poem lies in Lines 9-10 and the last eight lines of the poem as those lines speak about the moments in our lives, and how those moments "will always speak of God, / of life, of love."  Even if an individual is not religious, the reader can substitute "God" with a "higher being" or "unknown First Mover of the universe," or any other spiritual or scientific phrases.  Nevertheless, God/higher power, love, and life are the basic foundations of life as we all question each subject some point in our lives.  In general, I feel that this poem is an expanded metaphor about life and how the subtlest of things and of moments are perhaps the most profound.

Lovely work, Roslyn!  Thank you so much for sharing and being one of the contributors!

(NB:  Text arrangement on MS PowerPoint by Kathy Uyen Nguyen.  Please note that text/graphics will be in this format.)

To check out more of Roslyn's work, you can click on the following link(s):

Small Stones and Other Poems (blog)
The Literary Faction (blog)
P5 (blog)
@rosross (Twitter)

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