Wednesday, April 30, 2008

As Dali Puts It



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:

count vladimir said...

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.