Another Night with Nothing But the News
by RC DeWinter
Title
Another Night with Nothing But the News
Artist
RC DeWinter
Medium
Painting - Digital Oils~paintography~photopainting
Description
Copyright 2012 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved
Getting the Good News
Her smile warms me, he said,
almost blushing
yet beaming with pride
because someone finally recognized
his strength and beauty
and let him know it.
At last, he said,
I don't have to hold hands
with my keyboard all night,
typing unheard messages into a darkness
that can neither be explored nor understood.
She makes me laugh, he grinned,
and it feels so good
to sit across the table
from a friendly face.
The food tastes better, the wine is richer,
and who needs dessert
when a giving heart is waiting?
He looked away, embarrassed,
knowing we'd come close
to going there ourselves.
But, time and circumstances
being what they were,
it never happened.
My smile was steady and sincere
as I told him how glad I was
that his caul of loneliness
had been torn away,
that he was feeling
warmed and loved and wanted
after all those months of solitary silence
broken only by the cold electronic beep
of far-away friends he'd never seen
typing into the night.
And I AM glad,
because my friend
who so deserves to be
is happy.
His happiness has ripped
a ragged wound
in my self-spun cloak of camaraderie,
dependent as it is on the vagaries
of hairthin wire
and the unknowable mysteries
of the unseen ether.
~ copyright 2000, renewed 2012 RC deWinter
Digital oils reimagined from a photograph by Chris Glickman.
This painting has been FEATURED in
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Thanks to the group hosts for their encouragement and support.
still life, candle, lamp, vintage, newspaper, cup, interior, table, room, furniture, decor, evening, comfortable, lamplight, wall art. rc dewinter, dewinter
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February 23rd, 2012
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Mary Ann Weger
Congratulations! Your beautiful work has been featured in the Fine Art America group “FAA- Pixels All Stars”! You are invited to archive your featured image for permanent storage and for viewing on the Discussions Page—topic name: “New --3d--FEATURED IMAGES to Archive & Thank You Thread - DEC '17 & JAN '18”. Simply copy your image’s URL, and paste it at https://fineartamerica.com/groups/f-a-a--pixels-all-stars.html?showmessage=true&messageid=3874615
Luther Fine Art
Congratulations on your fabulous artwork being featured in one of FAA's newer Groups - Camera Art! You are invited to archive your work in the Features Archive thread! group or any other thread that it would fit in! LF
Christopher James
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Lisa Knechtel
The warm light is so comforting but the title and your description give it such loneliness. Well done. This is my DFM&N. L
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