Toko Shinoda’s Art

calligraphy

falls off 

her brush

art beat 

heart beat 

art treasure

red blood 

on legs

black wings

beat void

bird art 

lines flap 

lines tangle 

lines diverge 

ancient

red energy 

modern

black box

stroke up 

stroke down 

stroke stops

Shainado

lives to 107

last year’s seed pod

brown bare branch 

a thrush sings

                      

NYTime Obit about calligraphy artist Toko Shainado: 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/03/arts/toko-shinoda-dead.html

Link to some art images:  https://www.wikiart.org/en/toko-shinoda/all-works#!#filterName:all-paintings-chronologically,resultType:masonry

ABOUT: I like Toko Shinoda's caligraphy art. When she died, Verse Virtual published my ekphrastic poem about her art . My attempt was to make words sound like Toko's caligraphy strokes-- a swiftness of line, grace of movement, with splashes of red.

 

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Fire

After Song by Big Daddy Kane – The Wrath of Kane

The heat is on 

so feel the fire

a crumb starts to walk 

no, it’s an ant

a hornet sting throbs

you’re in its space

shooter hits a mall

mischance, you’re there

a drive-by shooting 

devil’s own luck

struck dead by lightning

sunshine, no rain

only one monarch 

lots of flowers 

barefoot on grass

clover without bees

a silent springtime

the frogs don’t sing

fire season west 

the sun shines red

the fire burns…

                        

https://www.verse-virtual.org/2022/May/bruck-ingrid-2022-may.html

Date Published: May 1, 2022