Original Watercolors

Signed, custom framed original 30"X40" watercolor paintings with poetry by
Dan Joyce

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DAN JOYCE
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Where Dolphins Dream

As a child, I used to have a recurrent dream. In this dream, I was falling into a pool of water and could not breath. An array of light drifted through the bluish space above. Then I would see the dark shadows of two dolphins swimming down to catch me. I was in a place where I could not hear, feel or smell, without gravity or time , falling into a body of seemingly endless space. Eventually, I told my mother of this dream, how I fell into a pool of water. She told me that as an infant, I fell into a swimming pool and nearly drowned. Today I realize that in life there are many times that we comfortably fall through the water. "Sink or swim," as the traditionalists would say and that while we don't always manage to swim, we likewise don't always drowned. That what might seem frightening for me today, may only be an odd dream tomorrow. I can accept for me today that someday I will no longer have the breath of life again. It is then that I wish to be thrown into a lake, an ocean a sea or some large body of water, where I will not see, hear, taste, touch or smell, without gravity or time, and return once again to that place where dolphins dream.

 

I Dreamt I Walked as a Woman

I dreamt I walked as a woman
The woman I would be
Temperamental, fired, confused
Rebellious seeking justice
A thinker, an artist and a poet with lyre
Losing the battle by day
Discontent in a commoner's muse
Then I watched you walk as a woman
Cordial, kind, empathetic
sweet
Holding a man when he was lonely
And lifting him up when down
An individual loveliness
Leading from within
And as I watched you walk as a woman
I questioned
What makes us who we are
Culture, finance, spirit
Separated by our difference
And although I'll never realize
What it is that makes a woman
I think that if I were a woman
I would walk like a woman like you

 

A Raspberry Haiku
So you remember?
The girl with the slow gin kiss
The music she danced in the shadows
The blood wine she stole from our hearts
And what is to happen?
Remember, Entrance, Forget
She seems so meaningless now
Forgotten in the whisper
To be told amongst drunkards
In a Raspberry Haiku

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