A greek woman, 1869, Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Medium: oil,canvas

I understood that anger is a big house, and mostly we live there alone.

— Ash Sanders, I Threw an Effigy-Burning Bonfire for my Female Rage

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Fatherhood, Viktor Vasnetsov

The Bower Meadow Study (Study of Dancing Girls), 1872, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Medium: chalk

Gallo Roman Women, 1865, Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Medium: oil,canvas

Mariana in the Moated Grange, 1851, John Everett Millais

Medium: oil,panel

Young Amerindian, Karl Bodmer

Humphry Davy, 1821, Thomas Lawrence

Left foot, right foot

You must have had one, A dream so intensely entrancing It stuck by you for the remainder Of waking day.

So heavenly, it seems The mind needs Some time to reset and settle back Into the frameworks Of reality.

For hours on end One foot already traverses solid ground, Whereas the other still shakily traipses; Caught within Mister sandman's sand...

So, you walk unsteadily Until left-brain and right-brain can agree And deem Last night's experience Too beautiful to be real.

One night's dream's enchantment, lasting Mere minutes May have you contemplate The very fabric of existence Like this,

But what if

Such a dream lasts days, weeks... Even years?

I guess The time spent walking shakily In the remainder of waking days Grows exponentially.

I know

Left-brain and right brain still can’t agree Whether you were

Too beautiful to be real.

I didn’t want to wake up

And I have been walking Unsteadily, Contemplating the fabric of existence For years.

--- 25-9-2021, M.A. Tempels ©

The Twig, 1865, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Medium: oil,canvas

Who is it, 1884, Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Medium: oil,canvas

Frédéric Chopin (1810-49) - Tarantelle in A-flat Major, Op. 43. Performed by Luc Devos, Broadwood piano, ca. 1845.

Journey to the Center of the Earth, 1864, Edouard Riou

What do you mean I'm the same person? I had a haircut, I changed my profile picture, I even archived my posts, stfu it's new me and you don't know me.

Ischia, 1875, James Webb

Head of a Youth, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Medium: chalk

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, 1816, Thomas Lawrence

The young man, Jan Matejko