Sophea's Poems Inspired by Art in the Gallery

SUMMER I

this morning my babies are

asleep

their eyes closed 

forever

before sunlight could ever 

enter

their cries 

foreign to my ears

linger where only my

heart can hear

SUMMER II

white lotus 

petals soak 

up tears 

that blink 

back memories 

of you.

chasing our

shadows in

morning 

dew. 

Inspired by June Yun's painting, Wuhu 03, oil on Acrylic , (36"x36")

CANDY RAIN (excerpt)

Sophea Heang

clouds taste 

sweet rain

that drench

the green grass 

and the black roof 

of the house that never

moved on top of the hill

she walks slowly today

the girl hears a woman singing

the woman’s voice soft 

lingers in wet pink petals

Inspired by visual artist’s Simon Fleming’s paintings from his “Every House Has a Thousand Stories” collection. Painting shown, Candy Rain © 

GOLD SADNESS (excerpt)

in the middle of the

mountain’s eyes is

where this golden chamber

lies   sending its hot flames

into the moist river

our sadness glows 

like those

fairy lights 

setting up the stage

made just for

me!

This golden sadness

turns to his face 

to try and trace

where the beginning

and end meet.

Inspired by Alejandra Morales Garza painting (shown here): Nothing Mattered Than Anything Else  ©  

GREEN PAPER VEINS

Themes arrive from the sky.

Themes emerge from the ground.

The tapestry becomes undone like 

the buttons on my Khmer white lace blouse 

wrapping itself around the pages…

wet as rain falls from the black sky…

What if each raindrop on the green 

leaf was a life that I didn’t live…

What if I was living inside every 

single raindrop on this leaf?

Brian Gleckman's painting, Wanderings ©