Saturday, December 19, 2020

David Painter: Poet Spotlight

 


David Painter is a Northeast Ohio poet and photographer. His aim is to capture his point of view on the world through nature, culture, architecture and history. 


Dave’s love for photography began in the 1970s with the purchase of his first Minolta SLR camera. Through his keen eye, Dave became a member of the Cleveland Photographic Society and the Chagrin Valley Photography Guild. 


For the last decade, Dave has added poetry to his creative repertoire. Ex-panding his interests to the human condition, fiction and history; his favorite era being the Civil War. Much of Dave’s poetry is inspired by his photography; the perfect marriage of his two passions. 


Dave is a member of many poetry groups including Allegory Alley, Scribbles Writing Organization, Poems and Unpoems, Writers Writing Poems and Out of Your Write Mind. Additionally, he is active in The Pixel Photography Club and his local historical society.


Dave was born and raised in Charleston, W.V. but has made the Greater eveland area his home for the past fifty years. He is married with two kids. 



Twitter

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See David's Contest Winning Poem

The Crow and the Man



December 2020 Pictorial Prompt Poetry Contest Winner




 The Crow and the Man

by David Painter





 



I sit for long days on end

Sitting where the nurse places me


It wasn’t always so

once the sun was bright on my shoulder


Briefcase in hand, train to the city


Funny, not ha-ha but funny never the less

how I started to slip

 

like too much rain on a California hill side

or a room full of marbles


Until the asylum of my mind became a silent refuge

and I forgot about you.


I watch as a crow lands with his road kill

and picks at the dead carcass


pulling off bits of flesh and

swallowing them whole


I feel as if it is my mind you know.




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Read more about David Painter