BEAUTIFUL TANGLE

This painting is inspired by an area that I frequently walk by when I am walking my dog; a small grove of pine trees at the entrance to a park.  It was painted using gold leaf in the background, a process that I have been experimenting with recently.   It is also my entry into a show sponsored by the gallery where I show my work.  Every year, we have a show that features pieces inspired by poems.  Here is the poem that goes with this piece. 

TREES NEED NOT WALK THE EARTH

Trees need not walk the earth

For beauty of for bread.

Beauty will come to them

 Where they stand.

Here among the children of the sap

 Is no pride of ancestry:

A birch may wear no less the morning

 Than an oak.

 Here are no heirlooms 

Save those of loveliness,

In which each tree

 Is kingly in it's heritage of grace.

Here is but  beauty's wisdom

 In which all trees are wise.

Trees need not walk the earth

For beauty of for bread.

Beauty will come to them

 In the rainbow-

The sunlight-

And the lilac-haunted rain.

And bread will come to them

As beauty came;

In the rainbow-

In the sunlight-

In the rain.

David Rosenthal

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