The Phantom -by Sylvia Pekarek

The Art and Artist: Portraying of the emotions on canvas has always been a challenge for the clan of artists. But the artists crave to do that difficult job. The art work, a painting or a sculpture is a record of what an artist feels.

Such recording of the feeling is named sometimes as ‘movement of the soul’, too. An… Continue

“Esperanza” (The Hope) : it is acrylic paint on canvass, size 22” X 30”. Painted for a noble cause, this painting was donated to Housing Works Women’s Health Centre for HIV+ woman.
If there is any environment that turns into an encouragement to make a person an artist, it is the appreciating atmosphere of family. If there is any state of affairs that really motivates… Continue

Encouragement she does not need,
You would regret that choice,
For once she starts you won't succeed
In halterring that voice.

I am her Mum, so ought to know
A filter she does lack,
The second thought does enter so
Her mouth spits this and that.

I suffer so from migraine
And many times have pleaded,
That she does sing to soothe my pain
But pleas do go unheaded.

"No-one likes a chatterbox"
but warnings she dismisses,
Instead she smiles and mocks my voice
Then throws me many kisses.

To her, al… Continue

Through liquid paths and heat that smothers
Through fragment cork and bark of palms
No naked soles with straps of leathers
Prevent the sifting grit of sands

This place with skies of colbalt hue
With crumbled walls of pink
With hooded robes no faces true
From outstretched hands we shrink

This city with it's earth of rose
Where salmon palaces rest
So calmly while pulsating those
Whose hearts the souks have blessed

Allured by musk and labyrinth
By coloured rugs that sway
With breezes light they… Continue

(1) 'Mother's Day'.

Mother said, 'what's done is done'
Mother said, 'don't cry when I'm gone'
but 'Mother's Day' comes round each year
Who'll take my flowers, who'll share a tear, with me.