"You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble.
To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never loses. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death.
This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?"
Leaving You Unpainted is collection of love shared through poetry in an unpretentious and unadorned style, yet it is profoundly provocative with its visual sensual feast of beauty, art and love in its myriad of expressions. It is both haunting with sorrow and lyrical with divinity. Once you begin, you will be addicted to the end. It is a must read for those obsessive passionate souls and art lovers who understand that mystery is as much a part of love, as the obvious. It is the journey of love, loss, letting go and creating something beautiful from it all.
Review: By Joseph Mallon A poetry offering by Zayra Yves can only mean new outpourings of love filtered through star fields, churned hot blue in densely swirled spirals. She reaches out again as a poet laureate of love with an elegantly produced gem of a book. Love divine, love romantic, love found quickly, and lived deeply. A narrow sliver of experience yearned for in lifetimes of desire. These intense poems are no cerebral exercise penned in quiet reflection. The words come hard earned in a stained, dog-eared, under the mattress handbook of love by a poet who lives the love of which she writes. Sometimes sweet, often erotic, always soulful, these poems speak to lovers with hearts split wide open with ecstatic joy, and soul smashing love cries. This is a wondrous work, moist with the sweetness of peaches, and the salty taste of love passions. Kisses come often here, are held deeply, and will be longingly remembered. Zayra’s love may be left unpainted, but it is not without color.
This little postcard of art by Zayra Yves is on its way to Moss, Norway to be part of an exhibition that will feature 140 Twitter artists. The project was put together by four Twitter Tweeps with David Sandum (www.davidsandum.com) leading the blog and call for artists. The charity is for their local library with the art exhibition project as an event to raise funds for their children's books. This is how David described the idea and process in his blog:
"For a while the project seemed impossible. How would one coordinate such a thing? But then a few weeks ago, I read an article in the local paper, saying how the public library had gotten it's funding cut and wouldn't be able to order the children's books they needed. It then struck me this was the perfect venue for a twitter art project. And soon the idea of a wall of art work at the library, where it's proceeds would go to charity/children's books, was stuck in my brain. But how would I gather all the work? The answer felt as swift as Twitter itself: Have each artist send a postcard (symbolic of a tweet), with hand-painted original artwork. The postcards would then be posted on the wall and sold for 100 kr each ($17.00), and all the money would go to children's books. This amount would make it possible for nearly everyone to support the public library, and if we collected enough artwork, enough money would be raised."
After an email exchange, Zayra's art was welcomed into the exhibition! For more information follow zayrayves and davidsandumart on Twitter!
On the wings of grace our heart song returns with the beauty of places she has been now transformed by the golden goodness of souls who opened for her warmth.
She returns on fire with the purity of spirit, with the sweetness of those she has loved lingering on her lips and the charm of life in the swing of her hips.
She arrives as new love right into the center of your being where you gratefully embrace her, welcome her home.
Zayra's poem Faded Hieroglyphs receives the honor of first place in the African Legends competition hosted by Michele Stewart, in honor of the White Lion Global Protection Trust and the Leopard Conservation Project. African Legends is destined to be a beautiful coffee table book with magnificent artwork, additional creative writing and inspired poety. It is such a heart warming joy and honor to be included in this collection of work.
Zayra would like to thank Linda Tucker of the White Lion Global Protection Trust, Fred Berrange of the Leopard Conservation Project, Michele Stewart, and the other judges, for their heart centered approach to life, to creating a sacred place for such magnificent beings, and for including Zayra's poetry in their visionary work.
When the book becomes available, we will send out an announcement. In the meantime, feel free to support the White Lion Global Protection Trust (www.whitelions.org) and the Leopard Conservation Project (www.leopardcon.co.za).
Zayra's art postcard celebrates the marriage of art and poetry in her new studio space. For an appointment to view her studio email: zayra.yves@gmail.com
