I've been aching to write this art-inspired poetry after being charmed by the Spanish painter Salvador Dali's surrealist painting called The Persistence of Memory. This painting has been haunting me for years like an obsessed ghost. - Suri Nahunte
As Dali Puts It
a still life of
jell-o - like clocks
spread
randomly
against a
psychedelic landscape.
It blows your mind --
like Prozac and poetry
on canvas;
like the lost love, which
Time cannot find;
like a bitterness, which
tears cannot wash away;
like this indelible
Memory of Memories, which
as Dali puts it, is
Persistent.
[Author's Note: Well, this is just about the best way I could verbalize Dali's work here. I'm not sure, though, if "like Prozac and poetry on canvas" works here as a metaphor...or simile. What do you think, blogfellows?]
1 comment:
this surreal masterpiece is one that will never be forgotten even if you only happen to glance at it in some art museum or art book. thank you for making a poem on one of my favorite works of art.
the line "Prozac and poetry" is definitely a simile in this case.
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