Using paper bag as background, is a fabulous way to do some art journaling. It is unique and looks really kewl. I am sharing a YouTube presentation I did and it shows you more of how I did it.
But, I chose to do another page using the same technique for burning. I used acrylic Color Shift to burnish the edges of the burned paper to help it stand out.
I aced at a thrift Store by getting an awesome stamp. I really suck at stamping.
Once I got the stamp done on the burned piece, I added an excerpt from one of my last poems. Not just other things have flown… once I could fly…but life is heavy now and weighs heavy on the heart that would fly if she could.
Once When She Could Fly
pirouettes amidst
wisps of clouds
she wrote I love you
in a thousand thousand languages
each one feminine each one longing
each one dreams to pin herself to
once when she could fly
soaring too close to Father Sun
burns your retinas melts your wax
leaves you dripping feathers
long strokes of drawn-down rain
streaking blue unable to rise
shorn flight wings plucked
by some unseen hand
once when she could fly
soaring close to Grandmother Moon
quickens heart cools blood
a sedation of sorts a different kind of blue
settling on fringes of topmost limbs
on nests of fall’s cotton near night clouds
peace reigning on such silent fall-down nights
once when she could fly
no more an eagle’s rise
forever more a ground eagle
clinging to twigs to keep
from being tumbled through harsh brush
losing her grip meant a rise and
desperate fall
for dreams are like that knowing
once she could fly
©Carol Desjarlais
©Carol Desjarlais 9.3.20
https://allpoetry.com/CarolDesjarlais
©Carol Desjarlais 4.22.21
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