Drawing Lesson: Orange

using charcoal

I make a tree of dreams

black white and grey

then I add orange chalk

to bring my dreams alive

song-birds in the branches

*** 

feel your way she said

desire is born of orange

today we create

an emotional landscape

let it be messy and fun

***

I pressed hard

for black and colour

then I smudged

the finger-soft grey

and left some stark white

the orange sang loud

At dVerse just now we are looking at Japanese forms which can be seen as non-identical twins: the tanka and the bussoku-sekika (which has an extra line). Mine are two bussoku-sekika, each in a pattern of short and long lines, sandwiching a tanka with a 5-7-5-7-7 syllable count. 

These are variations on a theme: my drawing attempts today based on my friend, artist and art teacher Sharyn Willliams's blog. Have a look; she has very interesting things to say and show.  

(Tanka and bussoku-sekika are usually untitled, but this blog post seemed to need an overall descriptive label.)

Linking this post to Poets United's Midweek Motif: Energy, Vitality