Color Mandala
The prompt at “One Single Impression” this week is ‘color’. This was such a fun prompt.
It’s fractured color
Bits of red and blue and green
Like splinters of joy!
Visit “One Single Impression” for more haiku and poetry.
More art and haiku here.
For a moment I thought it was a “fractal” but I see that is not the case. It is really a mosaic isn’t it? My take on the theme is not dis-similar in some ways.
see
http://ackworthborn.blogspot.com/2008/04/west-window.html
Comment by Around the World — April 20, 2008 @ 1:59 am
..fantastic art work terry!(a foregone conclusion that u paint well)but-/’It’s fractured color/Like splinters of joy!’//-reading between the lines of such pretty phrases do i understand u have already decided to fire me?
Comment by zoya gautam — April 20, 2008 @ 2:58 am
“Splinters of joy” makes me think of an energy so great it cannot be contained so bursts through its container in delightful ways.
Thank you for the mandala. As I learn about these wonderful works, I begin to see them as poems, too.
Comment by SandyCarlson — April 20, 2008 @ 4:42 am
Your color mandala is beautiful! Did you do this?
I like how you implemented color in “splinters of joy”. It’s such a vivid phrase!
Comment by MyBellavia — April 20, 2008 @ 7:54 am
Splinters of joy! Love that! Nicely done.
Comment by Raven — April 20, 2008 @ 10:59 am
Thanks everyone. Yes, I did this mandala with the haiku. They just seem to go together so well. You all know how it is, the words just seem to write themselves,
and it works the same when I do a mandala, it just seems to draw itself.
zg, shall I fire you with color?
Comment by teric — April 20, 2008 @ 11:38 am
I don’t remember this site Teri! I’m glad you left the link to it. The mandalas are wonderful!! I’m looking forward to doing more of them myself. I know what you mean about “just letting them happen.”
Comment by studio lolo — April 20, 2008 @ 11:55 am
Like splinters of joy - lovely way to describe color, great poem
Comment by lissa — April 20, 2008 @ 1:04 pm
“Spinters of joy”… gave me chills…you are piercing the universe with your joy! Whew!
Comment by MArgaret — April 20, 2008 @ 1:11 pm
“Splinters of joy;” how wonderfully laid out.
Comment by Scott — April 20, 2008 @ 3:11 pm
Another beautiful mandala and another wonderful poem, Teri!
Comment by maryt/theteach — April 20, 2008 @ 5:17 pm
This is marvelous! What a view when the window opened! Truly is splinters of joy.
Comment by Quietpaths — April 20, 2008 @ 7:02 pm
Whoa…this is so neat! I don’t know how you do it, but you do! Love your haiku as well…it all makes me joyful, and thankful to know you!!!
Comment by Julie — April 20, 2008 @ 8:14 pm
Splinters of joy is a wonderful phrase!
Comment by WillThink4Wine — April 21, 2008 @ 2:48 am
I like “fractured colors”,and such nice artwork too. Thank you.
Comment by Edward S. Gault — April 21, 2008 @ 3:21 am
You have linked the picture with the haiku well. I have tried writing haiku and it can be addictive in a way. But I’m still fairly new in poem writing and I tend to write rhyming ones. Glad I found One Single Impression and hoping to visit other poem blogs over time.
Comment by Aud — April 21, 2008 @ 6:16 am
Fun - love the words and the vibrant mandala!
Comment by Tumblewords — April 21, 2008 @ 10:17 am
Your haiku and the mandala go together so well. I really like the ’splinters of joy’. What a bright, vibrant image!
Comment by Rae Trigg — April 21, 2008 @ 4:15 pm
Beautiful! I am going to try one of these someday. If it is decent, I will show you. The haiku works really well with the mandala.
Comment by Sandy — April 21, 2008 @ 4:29 pm
I love your mandala. It looks like one that would translate well into a quilt. “splinters of colors” Nice.
Comment by Pam — April 21, 2008 @ 5:57 pm
That prompt was truly made for you!
Comment by spacedlaw — April 22, 2008 @ 12:34 am
Pure gorgeousness. (I hope that’s a word.) I love the last line and I simply adore the image.
Comment by patois — April 22, 2008 @ 9:14 am
splinters of joy–I can carry that phrase with me all day long! And what a lovely mandala!!!!! Beautiful!
Comment by Billy — April 22, 2008 @ 10:02 am
Like others mentioned, splinters of joy really tickled my fancy! I love your mandelas. That glory one is particularly fantastic.
Comment by Vixen — April 23, 2008 @ 12:38 am
how do you do that so so so… vividly… awesome
Comment by OneMoreBeliever — April 23, 2008 @ 7:34 pm
Pretty mandala. Making those are good for relaxing. Small scale order.
Comment by Pearl — April 24, 2008 @ 8:36 am