A couple of months ago, I sent my dear friend and author Mary Cathleen Clark an email attached with one of my drawings and asked her, if she would like to write something that would go well with it. And she came up with this one hell of an awesome poem! I didn’t post our combined efforts back then, because she went on a sabbatical but now she´s back! So hop over to her blog and enjoy her stunning stories and poems!
Poker Face
his adored face…free of artifice
or perhaps cunningly cloaked instead
constructs expressions conveying loyalty, honesty
and I’m so easily led
and his smile…open and bright
could so easily pull me under
waves of helplessness, hopelessness
and rip my heart asunder
if I dare gaze deep into his inscrutable eyes
just what will I see…
will I see love, need, desire, wanting,
or only death’s darkness looking back at me
I wonder…
if I strip the skin from his poker face,
tear off his upturned lips,
pluck out his beguiling eyes,
until all that’s left is bone and blood’s drip
what will I find….
Marvelous collaboration.
XxX
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Thank you, Patty! Lovely to see you back! 🙂 xxx
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Ups, my comment went off to early – we wanted to say we love your drawing, the skull is magnificent. What a character! 🙂
Wishing you a great weekend,
The Fab Four of Cley x
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Haha! 🙂 Happens to me all the time as well!
Thanks again! I´m so glad you like it – skulls are not everybody´s cup of tea 😉
Wish you all a very beautiful Sunday and First of May! 🙂 xxx
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Great co-work from both of you, Sarah.<3
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Thanks so much, Dina!! 🙂
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Ah, magnificent drawing. I adore those melancholy eyes! Cathy’s poem is amazing and cuts deep to the bone where flesh is just an encumbrance. Bravissima to you both!
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Thanks so much, Rose!
Quite the eyes, eh? 😉 I hoped you would like it as well as Cathy´s awesome poem – she really is the Queen of Creepy, right? 🙂 Have fantastic week! 🙂 xoxo ❤
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Lovely work! Enjoy your week, too, Sarah. ❤ xx ❤
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You’re drawing is powerful on its own Satah, and I was wondering how anyone would choose to write about it. I was really surprised and impressed by Cathy’s words.
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Thanks so much, Su! 🙂 When I did the drawing I simply wasn’t sure if it should go alone, it felt to me that there´s a story behind it somehow. And unable to come up with something suitable I turned to Cathy knowing that if anybody could come up with something awesome it would be her, since she´s the Queen of Creepy! 😉 You should read some of her stories, if you find the time, they really make you toes curl!
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I really like the way you collaborate with other creative people Sarah. Your work can stand alone proudly, but it’s also enriched by their input — and their work by the inspiration you provide.
I checked out Cathy’s blog when you posted Poker Face — you’re right — seriously scary.
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Thank you so much, Su, that´s such a wonderful thing to say! 🙂 I often think of artists as flowers and our ideas and imagination the bees and other insects that fly around and help pollinating each other in a creative way 😉
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That is a lovely analogy Sarah. 🙂
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Thanks! 🙂
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Great drawing! I was enchanted with the beguiling smile of your Yoruck’s skull. He could trick me easily, Sarah! xo 🙂
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Thanks a lot, Robin! It was a bit creepy at first drawing the skull, but we have become friends now 😉 xoxo
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I included a skull on Dr. Dan’s chiropractor painting I did around Easter. 🙂 Skulls are cool to many kids, Halloween holiday, and Dia de la Muertos (day of the dead).
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Very good!
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Thank you, Jennie!
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You are welcome!
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I love your drawing, Sarah. 💜 It has inspired me beyond writing the poem…just looking into those empty eye sockets can cause my imagination to take wing. The dead have many tales to tell. 😁
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Thank you so much, Cathy! It´s still thrilling to know that my drawing has triggered your wonderful and wide imagination to write this stunning poem! Empty eye sockets can be like empty pages, full of promises and deceptions… 😉
P.S. I mended the glitch with your name – so sorry!!
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No problem…I have a Kay and a Kate I follow, and I’m forever mixing up their names. Grrrrr…. 😊💜
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Excellent drawing Sarah and the poem by Mary goes great with the drawing. I enjoyed both. 🙂
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Thank you so much, Terry! 🙂
Next time you go to a casino you should be aware of guys like him 😉 Have a lovely day! 🙂
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Great drawing and the poem!
Don’t play any poker games with this person..
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Thank you very much! 🙂 And that´s right – avoid playing any games with this one 😉
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Great drawing and words, Sarah. You’re both talented in your own right. Love the skull image. Cheers
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Thanks so much, Chris! 🙂 Skulls are always en vogue I think 😉 Cheers!
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Definitely in vogue. 😉
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Never judge a book by it’s cover, I guess? 🙂 A suitably creepy poem to go along with your beautiful drawing. I really enjoy and admire anatomical sketches, particularly those of skulls and skeletal systems of humans as well as other animals. Did you give this one a name? 😉
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Thank you so much, Óglach! 🙂
It´s always a mistake to judge a book by its cover 😉 Looks can be so very deceiving…
It´s wonderful that you enjoy these kind of sketches, they are the very tools with which every artist should start their training, be it a self-imposed one like I do it or a formal one. I enjoy doing them very much and should really get back to drawing these…
No name though, I´m afraid, but I was tempted to call it Yorick 😉 Now that you´ve made me think about it, I really think that´s what I might call this drawing 🙂
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Things are looking up for poor Yorick, he’s found a good home. 🙂
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Hehe! 😉
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