31 Jan 2025

Repentance in Drawings

by markart | posted in: Contemplative, Faith, Inspirational, Poetic, The Artist's Life, Visual Arts | 0

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a cartoon dialogue baloon over a drawing of a thick book contains the statement: "Repentance
To stop being that way,
Turn from there and become
The movement True;"

A cartoon thought baloon over the drawing of a thick book contains the statement: "Persisting in focused denial,
Building and maintaining the fantasy,
Continually curling into yourself
Disintegrates to extinction;"

A cartoon of complicated walls like a labyrinth is in the background behind the statement: "But opening the possibility
Of more beyond the arbitrary
Boundaries of repetition,
Perpetual supplication"

A line drawing of two chicks in a nest is in the background of the statement: "In the system supporting
A few posers empowered
To distribute favors like worms
To chicks helpless in the nest,"

A line drawing of a bird's wing partly unfurled over a nest is in the background of the statement: "And choosing to grow from
Open mouths quivering for the next morsel
To realizing you have wings,
Stepping up to the rim of these twigs

A drawing of a bird beginning to take flight is in the background of the statement: "You become what you were intended,
Setting out into midair
Where nothing holds you
But a newness of reality"

A line drawing of a flock of large birds flying high over a rugged mountain range accompanies the statement: "You would not have known
Had you not turned away, out,
Looked up beyond and
Repented."