This post is a poem in response to the prompt by Dverse poets to celebrate Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. Dverse poets.com is the link to find a range of ideas about writing poetry, with good poems to read and stimulating prompts.
A very good friend of ours had some of the lyrics below on a t shirt. We knew it was from a Bob Dylan song but which one. So we went back to our Bob Dylan lyrics book and found it. Bob Dylan’s words and music are truly everywhere even up in our Spanish Sierra on a tee shirt!
‘She’s got everything she needs
She’s an artist, she don’t look back
She’s got everything she needs
She’s an artist, she don’t look back
She can take the dark out of the nighttime
And paint the daytime black’. Bob Dylan
The poem I’ve written is about a very special woman; an artist, woodworker, seeker and above all friend who I have been so fortunate to meet in my life in the Sierra.
Thanks to Dverse and Bob Dylan for inspiring me to put these words together ( and perhaps the t shirt that didn’t acknowledge Bob’s words!)
Painting our lives with the colours of light
Light plays with the trees at the dawn of dusk
She plays with the light in the colours she sees
Sepia wizened trunks with wise worn faces
She’s an artist
Touch of colour at the tip of a brush blends the years
Into the tones of the falling leaves she sees
Wise eyes lighten the cares and fears.
She don’t look back.
A garden of brightness, an orchard of fruit fallness,
A home all in one and a bed built up high,
To rise up through the darkness with a calm wry smile.
She’s got everything she needs.
She’s an artist, she don’t look back.

The photographs are some of her work.

trunk, all hollowed out with age
Adorned with velvet
This is an absolute treat Georgina 😀 I so adore “To rise up through the darkness with a calm wry smile. She’s got everything she needs. She’s an artist, she don’t look back.” Lovely write ❤️
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Thanks, and I must get back into more poetry now!
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A great thing to happen!
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A beautiful poem and a timely tribute to Dylan.
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Thanks, it just came together.
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An excellent tribut to Dylan but an even greater tribute to your friend.
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Thanks, the words are very much about her but the connection with Dylan’s lyrics helped me frame it.
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She is a gifted artist, playing with light and colors ~ A lovely tribute to your friend and to Bob ~
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Yes, she understands the play of light and I think Dylan did with words. Or light and dark?
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I love how you used the inspiration of your artist friend to write a tribute to both she and Bob Dylan. Your friend is a talented artist!
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Thanks,me he does see deeply into things,,life!
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I loved this. Beautifully done.
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Thank you but the words came easily to describe her.
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This is a great idea, to use his words to describe your friend, so often you see familiar things in the best of things.
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Thanks, it was a moment or two of inspiration and the connections.
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A lovely tribute from one artist to another. I really like the lines:
‘Light plays with the trees at the dawn of dusk
She plays with the light in the colours she sees
Sepia wizened trunks with wise worn faces’
and
‘Touch of colour at the tip of a brush blends the years
Into the tones of the falling leaves she sees’.
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Magical words…
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Thanks for sharing her work in a poem and pictures. You’ve captured her essence. The warbler appears to be a Brown(Western) Palm Warbler in non-breeding plumage.
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One of my favourite songs and an incredible tribute to this artist:
“Into the tones of the falling leaves she sees”
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Great song and such a nice connection for you to make.
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What a lovely tribute. Your friend will be absolutely delighted with this. 😊
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lovely poem.
your friend is quite talented. she must be a special lady.
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Lovely posting!
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Sounds like you understand 🙂
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Love the poem Georgi..and guess it’s Ruth !!! Or Sol ??? Both superb artists and inspirational women…as are you!
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Yes, it’s Ruth as she has the tee shirt!
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Almost like a glosa in the way you weave Dylan’s words in with your own. Lovely piece!
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Thanks, it just all linked together and was true to my artist friend too!
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this is gorgeous….such a lovely tribute to a friend….!
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That was such a lovely tribute. Moving verses for an interesting and prompt which could inspire whilst being polemic (almost as this Nobel Prize was for certain people). Love & best wishes. Aquileana :9
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Seems the person it might have most upset is Dylan himself. But he has some great lines and it can inspire as there was a great variety of poetry prompts on the Dverse site for this!
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That is a cute photo.
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Thanks, Ruth is a good photographer and artist. She often sends me her photos to use!
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I wasn’t aware of the Dversepoets.com site. Thank you. I enjoyed your poem and tribute to your friend.
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Dverse poets have inspired me to find my muse!
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I really like this tribute and your inspired poem. I heard a quote by, I think it was Henry Ward Beecher that said, “An artist dips his brush into the paint and paints himself. This is what I see you doing here. Very good!
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Thanks very much. I’d forgotten about this poem !
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