This Lê Phô image above inspired my image and verse below
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Original DDE™ digital surreal art: “Liberated” by: rob kistner © 10/16/24
This day
you are free
free to fly
to rise and glide
in buoyed flight
to soar skyward
in sweeping circles
so fly
fly
fly high
high above this constant rain
you are no longer earthbound
not a prisoner
of my rattan cage
nor of my constant sorrow
no longer captive
this day
this day you will soar
swoop
and dive
this day
you are free again
alive
give thanks for your feathers
and hollow bones
I have neither
I cannot escape this gravity
so bird
fly for us both
my heart will soar with you
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rob kistner © 2024
Poetry at: d’Verse
>>I cannot escape this gravity
so bird
fly for us both<<
I often wonder what it's like to fly. I used to do so in my dreams, and it was indeed liberating.
Soar Cris — be free my friend… 🙂
I love that you focused on the bird in your poem, Rob, and the repetition is so effective.
Thank you Kim. I write much of my poetry like I am envisioning a movie script — dialogue, often music, and setting and action. I am pleased this one resonated for you. I have been a performer most of my life. And when not performing, I have created in support of performance/action/environment. I am strongly visual, and I love, building to a moment. Doesn’t always work, but it is cool and impactful when it does… and I always strive my friend, always… 🙂
I love your art, and I love the way the narrator tells the bird to fly for her, that her heart will soar with him.
Thank you so much Melissa! Great prompt, once my perspective on it fell into place late last night. I looked from a different angle and saw a woman who truly loved her bird, to the point of liberating it.
My heart soars along with yours ~~~~
Up up and away Helen — fly my friend! 🙂
Love how you see the bird as a free and being released by the girl, to be free for them both.
Flying vicariously Björn — one of the safest forms of air travel… 😉
I love the fact that the bird has been set free from her rattan cage. She gave the gift of flight and in return I am sure her spirit soared as well.
Your digital art is amazing as always, my friend.
and these song lyrics come to mind from INXS now looping in my head
I told you
That we could fly
‘Cause we all have wings
But some of us don’t know why
Thank you True, your kindness always appreciated my friend. I love creating my digital artwork. I have made it a deep study to learn how to create the digital core, and then the chain prompts that now extrapolate the resulting beta that I can then final edit digitally to a reasonably precise finished image of what I initially envisioned. Took me a long time, and thousands of trials, before I learned how to get the bot to behave. It has its own “mind”, and if you don’t learn how to effectively “direct” it, you’ll get fascinating images — but not tight to what you desired as the finished piece. It can still take a while to get to what I am envisioning, but at least I understand how to get there. I don’t remember that INXS song specifically, I’m gonna have to look it up and, listen — but I love(d) INXS. They were one of the best Australian bands ever. Saw them twice in concert. 🙂
Oh hell, I know “Never Tear Us Apart”, just didn’t immediately recognize it from the lyrics. I’m old, and that is a while ago for my tired and troubled brain. 😉
Rob, I think you escaped gravity in this poem, soaring with the bird. A beautiful, uplifting response to the painting. Your digital art is stunning as well.
You think maybe I achieved EV (escape velocity)! 😉 Thank you so much Mish. And thank you for the kind words regarding my digital art. What you see is for me, an evolution of 4 decades, ever since MacPaint was released in 1984 by Apple my the original Macintosh. It was developed by Bill Atkinson. There have been more and more tools and apps available year after year, to be used in the creation, snd personalization of unique, high quality digital art. I love it! Like any creative undertaking, it just takes the willingness and time to pursue mastery of the tools available. Today that even includes render bots, but you still need to invest the time, understanding, and patience to learn to achieve the precise results you seek. But it is a ball…! 🙂
If a wild bird visits you for food or any other reason then it is worth a hundred times more than a bird who stays because it is caged so never is it more true that you should release something you love and if it is truly yours, it will return and you describe this moment perfectly, Rob…
Thank you… 🙂
i love how you created your own artwork. lovely! and i also love that you set the bird free in your poem. the song lyrics that came to mind, for me, while reading your poem was elton john’s “someone saved my life tonight” — (and yeah, butterfly vs parrot, but the plea to fly away)
You nearly had me roped and tied
Altar bound hypnotized sweet freedom
Whispered in my ear
You’re a butterfly
And butterflies are free to fly
Fly away
High away
Bye bye
(ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
Thank you Ren. Can’t wait until the superior aliens land, and they begin sorting us out for pet-like captivity. I have always been conflicted regarding the matter of pets. Domesticated dogs seem to stay of their own accord — beyond that… ?