Art in Action ~ Fleeting Moments
ART IN ACTION
FLEETING MOMENTS
Cascading
Often his dreams overwhelmed him even in broad daylight, playing themselves out across his sight… an awakening, a jumbled mass of ecstasy, terror, subliminity, nightmare, heavenly, inferno, mushrooms, a man writing his apocolyptic dreams that then become twenty-one chapters holding humankind to ransom, and twenty-one centuries further on, still held to ransom
Truly?
Will she truly accept my explanation?
God, I hope so.
I just know…
Strumming
The melody comes,
back and forth,
always when I least expect it,
ermmm as my friend wrote it…
“those fingerprints on the door”…
Afterwards
That was quite a send off.
Resting his eyes
No, your uncle is resting his eyes. Leave him be. He has an important performance this evening.
What Rachmaninov again, I bet!
Young lady, remove that tone or it is to your room you go!
‘It’s alright Caroline.’
From the couch…
Rosie, I’m sorry. You’re right. I did promise but I’m just resting my eyes. Tomorrow morning. Would that be okay?
Caroline’s quiet smile and dazzling eyes told Rosie what to say.
Yes Uncle, I’ll write it ALL down for tomorrow morning.
A very young lady was happy to feel the gentle warmth of her mother’s hand on her hair, expertly steering her out of the room, just like Daddy did too.
You see I knew it Mummy, Uncle wasn’t asleep. But now I know what resting-my-eyes means! Daddy says that a lot.
Oh does he, Rosie?! (a little giggle)
Deep
Oh so deep
in that first ninety minutes…
Slowly refocusing
That final ninety minutes
gradually awakening to the new day…
15 July 2023
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© 2023 Kenneth Thomas Webb
Digital Artwork by Kenneth Thomas Webb
Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.
He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.
Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.
In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.
