Original DDE™ surrealistic art entitled “Spectral Emotions” by: rob kistner © 7/15/24
He awakens in darkness, warm beneath the blankets. Fumbling for the lamp, he struggles upright. Sliding into slippers, he rises, ever so stiffly. Every day unfurls as it must, he muses.
Pulling on his robe he ambles to the kitchen, takes a cup from the shelf, pours chamomile tea. He retreats to his office, to his chair, welcomingly lit against the chill predawn darkness.
He sits, sips steeped motivation, quietly peeling away the fog of another fitful night. Grateful for the peace of early morning, he begins to un-blend his thoughts into a color palette of mood.
Melancholy greys, fear’s ebony, purples of anger, sorrowful blues, peaceful greens, laughter’s ambers, golden joy, love’s ruby red — but the colors spill, puddling in chaos. He reaches for his laptop, his canvass of clarity. In the spreading saffrons and corals of dawn, he begins sorting spectral emotions.
rob kistner © 2024
Poetry at: dVerse
Sounds like the story of someone who has been there and done that, Rob. Our laptop is a consolation for our days it seems.
Very well done.
Thank you Dwight. I would be lost without my iPad. I create my poetry and my digital art on it. 🙂
Rob, I like seeing you in the words and the figure in your art. The first musical selection transports me to another place, far from sadness.
I am so pleased Lisa. And isn’t Mulham simply incredible… 🙂
Yes!
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I love the opening paragraphs, a taste of a familiar daily routine, the ‘sliding into slippers’ and the stiff rising, ambling to the to make a cup of chamomile tea – and then the wonderful explosion of colour in the final paragraph, the sorting of spectral emotions.
From the mundane to the truly strange Kim… 🙂
love the way the words unwind with the waking – following all the movements and that final unblending of “his thoughts into a color palette”
Thank you Laura. I had to get the person up and dressed before we could get strange… 🙂
I particularly like this line “to un-blend his thoughts into a color palette of mood”.
Thank you Melissa. Every mood has a color… 🙂