A glowing flamed oval sits among the sharp and pointed.
It will remind us to heed to the fact that “pain” is part of life.

Go with humility, patience and care on these roads of anguish and grief.
Upon traveling them “feel, learn, accept and grow.”

For then eventually life will “grant us relief” from the bearing of those thorns.

“Thorn”
• digital mixed with original printed on ricepaper and mounted on canvas • 10″ x 10″
Lisa Rivas © 2007

Daylight lengthens,
Sunshine stretches and spreads,
Buds raise their faces towards radiant rays.
Dormant seeds begin to open and emerge forth.
Newborns appear, arise, bud, come out, dawn and emerge.
For now the days have widen and swelled letting spring happen again…

“Beginning”
• digital mixed with original printed on ricepaper and mounted on canvas • 10″ x 10″ – Lisa Rivas ©

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Once “Spring” starts ‘peeking‘, there is much more than what ‘beholds’ the eye.
Most of this activity unfolds underground, below the surface, deep within.
The earth softens letting “new growth” push upward like bubbles rising.
On every branch a new sweetness lingers awaiting for the sun’s next warm touch.

Vigor awakens again, fresh and bursting forth, filling the air with “gems of life.”

“Renew”
• digital mixed with original printed on ricepaper and mounted on canvas • 10″ x 10″ – Lisa Rivas ©

“But you were something more than young and sweet
And fair, – and the long year remembers you.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, RENASCENCE AND OTHER POEMS

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