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1½ inches thick (3.75 cm)
Product Details Artist grade canvas, archival inks, wooden stretcher bars, and UVB protective coating
Product Details Artist grade canvas, archival inks, wooden stretcher bars, and UVB protective coating
Artist RC DeWinter Platinum Member
Collection Roses_Roses
Description Copyright 2017 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved
Late Escape
The roses alongside the housebloom in the captivity of a prearranged pattern,
the vision of a small mind more concerned
with neat and tidy than with nature.
I wonder if they know the heartache
of the unfree
espaliered to the whims of power.
I would like to free them to bloom in whatever way
best suits the nature of their being,
but am afraid they have grown too rigid
and brittle with age
to do anything but break after being tethered
so long to such an artificial construct.
And so, in my selfish craving
for their beauty and their scent
I leave the roses as they are:
prisoners of what never should have become familiar
and is now a necessity.
I know something of brittleness
and the rigidity of fear.
It has taken me most of my life to
escape the cross on which,
like those roses, I was crucified -
all of us sacrifices to the narrowness
of ignorant convenience.
I never was, nor will be, as beautiful,
even in their captivity, as those blossoms,
but I have known something they never will:
the intoxication of growing freely in
my own wild way.
2017 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved
Trellised roses display their summer beauty in evening twilight.
Late Escape
The roses alongside the housebloom in the captivity of a prearranged pattern,
the vision of a small mind more concerned
with neat and tidy than with nature.
I wonder if they know the heartache
of the unfree
espaliered to the whims of power.
I would like to free them to bloom in whatever way
best suits the nature of their being,
but am afraid they have grown too rigid
and brittle with age
to do anything but break after being tethered
so long to such an artificial construct.
And so, in my selfish craving
for their beauty and their scent
I leave the roses as they are:
prisoners of what never should have become familiar
and is now a necessity.
I know something of brittleness
and the rigidity of fear.
It has taken me most of my life to
escape the cross on which,
like those roses, I was crucified -
all of us sacrifices to the narrowness
of ignorant convenience.
I never was, nor will be, as beautiful,
even in their captivity, as those blossoms,
but I have known something they never will:
the intoxication of growing freely in
my own wild way.
2017 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved
Trellised roses display their summer beauty in evening twilight.
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Product No 6089419
Subjects Architecture, Floral & Plants, Floral & Still Life, Garden, Houses, Landscape, Nature & Outdoors, Seasonal, Seasons, Summer
Style Landscape
Medium
Tags RC, art, deWinter, evening, floral, flowers, garden, house, landscape, plants, rc dewinter, roses, summer, trellis, twilight, wall
Product No 6089419
Subjects Architecture, Floral & Plants, Floral & Still Life, Garden, Houses, Landscape, Nature & Outdoors, Seasonal, Seasons, Summer
Style Landscape
Medium
Tags RC, art, deWinter, evening, floral, flowers, garden, house, landscape, plants, rc dewinter, roses, summer, trellis, twilight, wall