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| #110204 Ink Drawing |
Lonesome Luna
Pitt India Ink Pen
on Strathmore 100 lb. Bristol Board, Smooth Finish.
8" wide x 10" high.
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Lonesome Luna rises at night.
When we go to sleep, she turns on her light.
Lonesome Luna is silently mad.
She feels old and forgotten and very much sad.
Lonesome Luna remembers the day
astronauts came to visit, to explore and to play.
Lonesome Luna quietly prays,
"I wish they'd come back one of these days."
Lonesome Luna smiles and yawns,
"My work shift is over, here comes the dawn."
2010 © Darlene Duncan
8 comments:
Darlene,
Love Lonesome Luna and the poem is great! I didn't know that you wrote poetry too! :)
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Oh, nice poem with the illustration. Somehow this has me thinking of glow-worms.
Aw, poor Lonesome Luna, and she seems such a lovely girl, too! Those stars can be so clannish, can't they? I love when you illustrate your drawings with verse, it fleshes them out beautifully!
The first thing that came to mind when I saw this was Casper.
Casper means a lot to me. I grew up extremely poor in Roxbury, MA. One Christmas I asked for a talking Casper( the kind where you pull the string.) I got the non-talking one, rubber head, cloth body. But that ghost was by my side until I was 16. We got evicted from out apartment (in Brockton now) and the thing I cried about the most was losing Casper. The door was nailed shut with all of our stuff inside.
Jeez. Now I'm weepy!
But I do find this drawing sweet...and the poem too ;)
Norma, I set myself down to writing every now and then. I wrote poems for an illustrated children's book. Although adults like it too. The link for "Keen Colory Critters" is in my sidebar.
Yes! When I posted the original color painting of Lonesome Luna, people did comment about Glo-worm dolls.
Thanks, Shrinky. The poems are fun to write.
Lolo, Casper the friendly ghost. Aaw, a bitter sweet memory has come forth. Your Casper was loved for years. Hold on to the good memories.
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