Come Say Hello Before I Go

By Sol Kent Carson

This collection of my poems includes poems I have written over more than seventy years, far back into my younger years, when I was a ditch-digger for the WPA and then an artist depicting people at work during the depression years.

I began to write by writing on the backs of my pictures and paintings, usually something about what was in the picture, what moved me to compose the picture, my thoughts and feelings about what I was depicting that was part of the human experience. Later on, I began to write poetry about art and paintingwhat it felt like to paint, what went through my mind and heart as I set myself to the task of painting, how I felt about the subjects of my painting, be they human, animal, plant, or an especially evocative scene. I wrote extensively of my feelings for my wife and son. When my wife died, I poured my grief into poetry about my feelings of loss.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Inspiring Voices
• Release date: Oct 11, 2012
• ISBN: 9781462402984

Sol Kent Carson

Sol Kent Carson was born in 1917, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Russian immigrant parents named Karsonsky. His BFA and Med degrees (fine arts) are from Temple University. His PhD in fine arts is from Minerva University, Bari, Italy. He taught art in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin universities.

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ISBN: 978-1-4624-0297-7 (sc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2012915871

Inspiring Voices rev. date: 10/08/2012

Contents

I Wonder Why

My Son

At Stage Eighty-Eight

To A Bird’s Single Note

Walk Gently

I Dream Of A Village

Millie

To The Floating Leaf

To Mr. Rat And Fred

The Voice

Nothing Is True Except...

Welcome To My World

To The Crippled Beggar

An Open Letter About A Friend

To See

Time

Even The Dove

The Dancers

To Ameleo

A Single Note Of Hope

Some Things I Love: Time for Son

Michelangelo’s David

   I And All The Others

The Stones

Yes, Death Came To My Side…

Eyes

During This Time…

Purple Shadows Overcast…

I Stand, Making Faces…

I Have Seen Beauty Live…

The Painter - I

The Painter - II

The Painter III

In These Pages…

All Writing In This Book…

Never Throw A Seed Away

Truth, Gentle Calloused Truth…

Why Did You…

War

I Wandered By The Sea…

The Understanding

All Truth Is But Art

To Kent and Tish: 1988: Kent And Tish Have A Gentle Way

About Death…

To Aaron

Once My Father Said To Me…

To My Sister Betty Sunday, January 27, 1980

I, A Doddered Fragment…

V

Woman

An Island I Know

To My Son (on whom you may intrude)

Now He Is…

Words Once Given…

Words To My Short Songs

Words

You Can Care …

Words Are Vessels …

Somewhere …

I Have Walked …

Whenever…

My Hopes Are…

The Secret Of The Leaf

To Tabella And Rose

Did I Not …

The Acrylic Landscape

Nicole - 1 Year, 10 Months

Niki – Her First Recital Le Petit Trianon Theater, 16th of August 2005 San Jose, CA

Children, Though We Thought …

Each Day A Jewel …

Night

Gentle Youth

O Heart Be Still

Two Friends And Me

One Hour’s Happiness …

To Nan and Nana: The Canna Lilies Are Waiting

Moshiach: Space, Sea, Sand…

Happy Was The Day

Joy

Laughter

Tender Waiting…

Bubby

The Sprinter

Bubbles

To The Soldier Who Fought For Me

What Wars …

Color, Color

To Dog

The Image

Mind, The Beauty Overrules …

If This World Would Unfold …

I Will Paint

THE THELMA POEMS With Thelma, A Better Season

A Togethered Life

To Thelma: Often Had I More Than Once…

To Thelma: When Life’s Beginnings Shot…

May My Works

Flesh And Mind: To Thelma

At Kent’s Garden: To Thelma

From Thelma: I Found A Flower…