Soul Glitter

The prompt for this week's Photo Art Friday is "figure(s)". I played around with a photo I took of a statue and my results are subtle, but my goal was to tie it in with a poem I wrote (below). Of all the poems I've ever written, this is the one I love the most...it is the essence of me, and how my poetry is such a part of who I am.

I love statues...there's just something about them! There is always such emotion on their faces, as if they were once alive and are now frozen in time. For this image, I used Bonnie's "Drops of Jupiter" texture - it added a tinge of blue to the statue which was what I was looking for (I used a reverse layer mask so the blue appeared only on the statue). I also added a cloud texture to give the sky more interest (it was a gray day but no clouds). I used the dry brush artistic effect (at 25%) to make the image look slightly more painterly. As always, I finished it up in Radlab. Please click on the button below to visit more photo art!

SOUL GLITTER

When the shell of me dies
I’ll exhale my spirit
And float to the sky
Wandering in heaven
Scrawling my poems
In iridescent blues
Onto the wings of angels
While they sing in a choir

And when the angels return
To earth, my musings
Will travel with them
Coating their delicate wings
Like soul glitter
Scattering loose as they fly
Settling onto earthly things
And clinging there for life
A way for me to endure
In everlasting blues
Without having to
Say goodbye

My blues will dust
The steely surface
Of a statue in a garden
Seeping through its layers
To its secretly soft insides
Or glisten on a spider web
My tangled orb of emotions
In the dewy, indigo light
They’ll smudge the moon
With violet shadows
Hanging ripe and heavy
In a midnight sky

My reveries will linger on
In this earthly world I love
As a tinge of cobalt hues
Wherever the visiting angels
With scribbled wings fly.

© Sherri Brannon