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Stick Men

 

Cliff sides

cave walls

rock paintings

left by ancients

lost tribes

lost people

art of vision

stick men

in war paint

in pigment

charcoal and clay

ritual

spear and feather

symbols

ocher biographies

still clinging

to stone

through ashes

through ages

stick men

lasting

asking to be heard.

 

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Mae Foreman

Thu 31st Jan 2019 20:38

Wonderful! Plain in form and extraordinary in every other way. I like your style altogether too, D.K., in case I haven't told you!
Thank you ?
Mae

Big Sal

Thu 31st Jan 2019 12:24

Makes me wonder about the 'stick dinosaurs' painted on Neolithic walls and caves. .

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