My Thinking Chair
by RC DeWinter
Title
My Thinking Chair
Artist
RC DeWinter
Medium
Painting - Digital Oils-paintography
Description
Copyright 2011 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved
My Thinking Chair
There's no thinking to be done in the jangle of the world;
the shrilling of the phone, the proselytizer at the door,
the overfull laundry basket speaking in a reproachful voice
give the mind no peace.
No, true thought requires silence.
There is a special place I go to think,
the only place I truly can, apart from that monstrous bed
that yawns empty and cold each night when I,
exhausted from the worries of the world,
throw myself into that waiting despair.
But the thinking done there stems from the well of anxiety,
not the calm and reasoned introspection that fosters understanding.
So, when I must puzzle out this tangle of my life,
I seek the clearing in the wood where awaits my chair,
battered by exposure to the elements but yet enduring,
much like the spirit that finds no peace neither in the day to day
nor in the claustrophobic grip of lonely nights.
In the familiar embrace of that rough wood I sit
and close my eyes -
knowing the sun is still shining, the earth still spins,
my heart still beats -
and think thoughts if not deep, at least meaningful to me.
~ copyright 2011 RC deWinter
This painting has been FEATURED in too many groups to list.
Thanks to the group hosts for their encouragement and support.
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December 4th, 2011
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Christopher James
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Mariola Bitner
Congratulations on your outstanding artwork! It has been chosen to be FEATURED in the group “500 VIEWS.”
John Bailey
Congratulations on being featured in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"
Steve Sperry
You are doing some amazing emotionally powered artwork - very pleasing to the eye , inner an outer.
Kandy Hurley
What a great old find and makes me wonder about the stories that have been told by the folks who sat in it.