THE PENGUINS

THE PENGUINS, a photo by Narolc on Flickr.

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Collage/drawing with gel pens.

EVERY DOG HAS HIS DAY REVISITED)

EVERY DOG HAS HIS DAY REVISITED), a photo by Narolc on Flickr.

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Collage/drawing incorporating a copy of a previously uploaded drawing: 'Every Dog Has His Day' (in my DRAWINGS set here).

DORA

Why pan Dora’s box?
Because: it’s full of socks and hopeless.
Like her box, bereft of hope,
Dora, drunk in her bedroom, has a grope,
Below faded pictures of the Pope.
Beneath her bed she keeps a rope,
Above which she dreams of hanging,
She’s frequently woken by next-door’s banging.
Tired, she blinks,
She’ll be late for work again,
Fired, she thinks.
Low-life regulars in her local buy her drinks,
Their breath and clothing, like her life, stinks,
Numbed to their advances, into depression she sinks.
She ponders her life, analysing links,
Occasionally feeling her life’s a jinx,
Gone are her chances of straightening kinks.
Her days of financial hardship and self-reproach,
Are lonely periods without a life coach,
But what could she learn anyway?
Except for definitions of shades of grey,
That corresponds with the segments of each day.
She has dark circles under her eyes,
And lacks things in her life to prize,
She’s neither extremely foolish nor overly wise,
She’s existing in a trap that’s crap and no surprise.

'FROG' DOOR KNOCKER

'FROG' DOOR KNOCKER, a photo by Narolc on Flickr.

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I saw this unusual and, I think, lovely door knocker in Brighton and had to add it to my door knockers set here.

Odd shape

Odd shape, a photo by Narolc on Flickr.

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Collage/drawing that formed the basis for my previous 'Columnist' uploads'.

HIPPIES

Stoned hippies worship worse hips than their own,
Praising those who emit an arthritic groan,
It makes them feel better about their pelvic regions,
Passing round joints in swift rotation,
Reflecting on hip joints in their legions.
An alpha-hippie who is making a point,
Is unconsciously trying to take over the joint.
The other hippies refuse to stand for it,
They refuse to stand at all,
Struggling with their overall comprehension,
Of skeletal structures like a socket with a ball.
Ironically, they’re bone idol while their idol is a bone.
Someone plucks at a guitar and drones a paean to the pelvis,
His stoned compatriots are transfixed although he’s hardly Elvis.

A COLUMNIST (COLOUR)

A COLUMNIST (COLOUR), a photo by Narolc on Flickr.

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I used gel pens to add colour to 'A Columnist', my last upload. Hope you enjoy.

A COLUMNIST

A COLUMNIST, a photo by Narolc on Flickr.

ARCHITECTURAL, ANATOMICAL, AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL (AS ALWAYS)... WHEN I DRAW, I CONNECT WITH INNER PEACE AND FEEL SEDUCED BY THE SELF-ABSORPTION SO FAMILIAR WITH THIS DISCIPLINE. MY WORK FEELS EFFORTLESS AND THERAPEUTIC, MY UNCONSCIOUS IS IN THE DRIVING SEAT; CONSCIOUSLY I FEEL MEDITATIVE AND RELAXED, SOMETIMES VIEWING RECENT AND OLD MEMORIES IN MY MENTAL CINEMA, SELF-ANALYSING AND RELINQUISHING NEGATIVE EMOTIONS IN THE PROCESS... IT WORKS FOR ME!

THE PROTECTIVENESS OF THE SPIRIT OF BAGPUSS

THE PROTECTIVENESS OF THE SPIRIT OF BAGPUSS, a photo by Narolc on Flickr.

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Drawn last night (May 19th). Bagpuss may be unfamilar to those outside the UK, it was a cute childrens' TV programme about a sleepy cat...

THE BABY'S COMFORTERS

THE BABY'S COMFORTERS, a photo by Narolc on Flickr.

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My most recent drawing, loosely inspired by an elaborate metal door knocker I saw in Florence, Italy.