A poem written by the Puerto Rican poet Eric Landron inspired by my painting “Grey Surround Self Portrait”
Self Portrait
To Alexander Rosado
An Insane till sanity,
A Sane till insanity, will doubt so much certainty,
Meticulously searching, once and again, feverish and untiring,
The missing item in the wardrobe of time,
Between the dust of intuitions
And the ashes of memories
He invents and uncovers his seventh sense,
Using a third eye, invisibly visible and reflexive,
That paints him into a Warrior Poet,
While he looks into a broken and brainteaser mirror,
Revealing a soul in suffering,
A spirit in commotion, unsatisfied,
But, also, full
In breath of vigor and uproar,
And he excavates light, and uncovers, the light,
Forever, the light, eternally, the light,
With intensity, suspicion, prodigy, and clairvoyance.
And he appears and reappears
Like the best of his acts of magic,
Lopping the branches where the arcane mystic is nestled,
Breaking, with pure machete blows of an incredible paintbrush,
The entangling and pricking thorns of life,
The thicket of serpents
That form and deform the Hydra of sorrow and injustice,
And thus, seeing beyond his gaze that paints,
And painting his gaze beyond the painting,
He waits for the crucial and most sublime moment
Where his heart comes to a halt, stocked with life,
And irremediably, serene and shrewd.
Just simply excellent – all!
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A belated thank you for you Penny!
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You are most welcome, a thank you is always a thank you regardless of when given Alexander!
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