MODERN DARK ART

CONTEMPORARY PAINTERS

AMANDA SAGE - AMERICAN PAINTER,  BORN IN DENVER, 1970

ANNE BACHELIER- FRENCH PAINTER

BRIAN HOOVER- AMERICAN PAINTER, BORN IN PENNSYLVANIA

BRIGID MARLING-  AMERICAN PAINTER ,BORN IN WASHINGTON

CANIGLIA-  AMERICAN PAINTER, BORN IN NEBRASKA, 1970

CLAUDE VERLINDE-  FRENCH PAINTER

ASCENSION

I'M LIFTED BY THE POWER,

PULLED UP FROM THE WORLD,

TRANSPORTED TO A UNIVERSE

OF INFINITE QUIETNESS.

THE STILLNESS OF THE TIME

EXPOSED AS A TRICK.

INVENTION OF A MIND

WHICH TRAVELS THROUGH THE VOID.

NO FUTURE AND NO PAST.

THE PRESENT FLOWING CALM,

EVOLVING INTO A DREAM.

NOTHING LEFT BEHIND.

IN FRONT ,THE NARROW PATH

LEADING TO THE SOURCE.

AGAIN.

FEATHERS AND DRAGONS

LIKE A FAIRY TALE,

TOLD IN A WINTER NIGHT....

THE SNOW FALLING DOWN

IN RIVOULETTES,

COVERING THE COBBLED STREET

WITH COLD CARESSES..

BEHIND THE COURTAINS,

WE WATCH

THE FROZEN DANCE

OF SNOW FLAKES,

WHILE THE FIRE WARMS OUR HEARTS.

IN AWE WE LISTEN TO THE BARD

THAT SINGS SO WOUNDROUS TALES.

DRAGONS BITING MAIDENS' LIPS,

WHILE BEHIND A FEATHERED FAN,

A GODDESS SMILES IN SCORN.

FAUNS AND SATYRS GIVING WAY

TO PASSIONS.

LUST LONG LOST.

RANDOM WHIMS AND LIGHT CAPRICES,

BESTOWED ON FAIRIES' LORES.

FLIGHT OF THE CHURCHES

NO MORE TRUTHS,

NO MORE GOALS.

THE WORLD IS CLOSED

TO GOD'S ENTERPRISES.

PRIESTS AND PRIESTESS

CLOSING THEIR EYES,

SHAKING THEIR HEADS...

THEY TREAD ALONG

THE PATHS OF GLORY,

WITH NO MORE PSALM

TO PRAISE THEIR DEEDS.

THE SAINTS

GO BACK TO SLEEP FOR EVER.

THE CHURCHES FLY,

SCAPING SCORN,

DISGRACE, COMTEMPT.

SOMEWHERE THEY'LL FIND

ANOTHER PLACE

TO FOUND THEIR STONES.

DEAD SOULS

IN PAIN

IN VAIN

SO BLIND

NO MIND

DISTRESS

AND STRESS

VOID ARMS

ALARMS

AND EMPTYNESS

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