Miraquill
Ryders Grave
Autumn Nor'easter wild this Wednesday
The Whaling City foliage litter the streets
Leaves on branches expose oak rot limbs
Long internal decay awaiting a final fall
Grey wet noontime illuminated moon like
Like a lit Albert Pinkham Ryder painting
Such grace in subtle temporal urban flora
With dreams of years of layered oil paints
A "roof and crust of bread" but no easels
I plan for frigid painting in the cold garage
With solitude and darkness to push the oil
To convert my emotional moons into trust
Our reclusive literary father revered again
©kevinosullivan
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Read More#thelightofryder Inspired by the work and life of American master painter/poet/artist #albertpinkhamryder who was from #newbedford #fatherofamericanart #MelvilleandRyder #streetsofnewbedford #whalingcity #commercialfishing #spitefulmoonlight #moonlight #seascape #publusheditburn #apprenticepoet #fishermen #lostfishermen #portofnewbedford #poetwannab #darktriadpoetry #literarytherapy #shantysociety #nbma⚓
The Light of Ryder
Fears of water awaits the dying crew
Cold and dark in nocturnal lunar hue
Ryder's light seeps as if his brushes knew
His rusted umber and Prussian blue
That beautiful tragic scene on calm night
All who witnessed left fraught with fright
A vessel consumed by spiteful moonlight
The sea she takes to satisfy her appetite
All souls lost fishing in peaceful scenery
New Bedford's own fiction from memory
Having imagined the end alone in imagery
This description better ends life's misery
©kevinosullivan