Soul-Generating Art

Soul-Generating Art
© Surazeus
2025 12 13

The sweet little girl in lush field of flowers 
plays with the shiny key-words of her heart 
which her father forged from water and stone 
by catching lightning strikes with gentle hands 
so she transforms wild swirls of energy 
to fruits and vegetables that bloom from dirt. 

Loading pushcart with baskets of ripe fruit, 
Pomona travels across bumpy fields 
to large ring of stones on the river shore 
where people gather every afternoon 
to exchange rich produce of the fertile Earth, 
then feast and sing in the cool evening dusk. 

Working all evening in the restaurant, 
Pamela brings plates and glasses of food 
to people gathered at tables of faith 
where they eat and talk with passionate joy, 
then lies exhausted on her bed at home 
and thinks about the ancient times in Rome. 

While imagining simple ways of life 
in ancient times before technology, 
Pamela sketches young girl with long hair 
who sells fruit from her pushcart by the tree, 
then shares ripe apples with the handsome boy 
who roasts fish he caught for them both to eat. 

Though life seems simple in those ancient times, 
stronger people often exploit the weak, 
but today government agents run laws 
providing everyone who wants to work 
protections against exploitative greed, 
though that system seems to be breaking down. 

I cannot tell if life in ancient times, 
tending trees of fruit with attentive hands 
to protect them from harsh weather and thieves, 
or life today as waitress serving food 
then watching shows on computer at night, 
is the lifestyle I would prefer the most. 

This organic body of chemicals 
that conjures my conscious soul from its brain 
requires constant input of biomass 
that we produce from fertile soil of Earth 
so we must gesture with physical craft 
to sustain body-vibrant glow of life. 

When immortal soul of Pomona wakes 
in mind of her descendant Pamela, 
her spirit of soul-generating art 
inspires her to maintain strict daily rite 
working to provide food people must eat 
so she can eat and enjoy painting comics.