POartRY and PROSE

Creative Writing is my passion. Creating paintings with oil or acrylic paints is also my passion. POartRY and PROSE is the marriage of the two. . To create POartRY and PROSE, I began by posting the photos of some of the many paintings I have created. Then, beginning with the first painting, I looked at it before simply allowing words to flow. With regard to the cover painting these were my feelings. As the river disappears behind the mountain, I feel the urge to follow it. I want to know what lies behind the mountain.. As I filled these pages with words, I had no idea what I would be thinking about, writing about, praying about. I had no agenda. I simply followed the river of photos of my paintings.. When the river flowed behind the mountain of another page, I hung onto the urge, and I followed it.When I was faced with another painting, I was faced with a decision. What shall I write? Will I write a poem? Will I write prose?. This manuscript has been a writing adventure. I had no idea what I would write until I began writing.And how does this creation of a manuscript differ from the way I live, and have lived, and will live my life?I am open to life. I am prepared to meet whatever it may offer. I wish you, my readers, the same.