©Emi Cook (painting)
Eye of The Viper
Looking deep into the soul
Of its next victim
Green Viper’s Eye
Author: Alan McKean
Green Viper’s Eye
Another of Emi Cook’s paintings from a couple of years ago. I decided to give this particular painting the haiku treatment, and I quite like what it did to my scribblings
Alan
Kites
I have just posted another painting from Emi Cook, onto the Art page
This one is of beach huts and kites that Emi painted for an art competition in Fylde (she won her class), and it became the cover illustration for my first poetry collection – “81 Kites”
Enjoy
Alan
Kites
Tails of the East Wind
Coloured streamers chase the tide
Beach huts stay silent
©Alan McKean
©Emi Cook (painting)
River Roch
ere I reach
my namesake town,
my life
enjoys
the idyllic Pennines,
and village life
© Alan McKean
River Roch
The River Roch, from which Rochdale takes its name, runs through our village, in between the war memorial in the village square and the railway station, and can be quite photogenic, so I have just posted a piece in the photopoetry section. Hope you enjoy it.
Alan
Viper
‘ware
the watching eye
of the viper
‘ware
The silent slither
Through quiet grass
‘ware
The flickering tongue
As it smells success
‘ware
The lightning fangs
In your leg
As you sink
Into darkness
‘ware
The
Viper
©Alan McKean
©Emi Cook (painting)
Augenblick
Pinpricks in the sky
The night stars
Call my name
As they follow
Their preordained paths
Around eternity
Ageless in appearance
Ageing fiercely
In the atomic fires
Of their birth.
The universe
Is violent,
The image is serene
The dichotomy of existence
And perception,
As we remain
Ein Augenblick
In the Cosmos
© Alan McKean
© Emi Cook (painting)
Augenblick
Over the next few weeks, I will be posting a new short series of paintings, with accompanying poems, onto the “Art” section.
The paintings are by the Fylde artist Emi Cook. She has asked me to indicate that these are some of her early paintings, as her personal style is still evolving.
Evolving or not, I really enjoy each of them for their own unique style and individual approach.
I hope you enjoy them
I am starting the series with the piece “Augenblick”
I would also like to proudly point out that Emi is one of our granddaughters.
Alan
Quick haiku
I asked my doctor
to write an haiku for me
this is what he wrote
