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Robert Feldman: a collection of my poetry, paintings, photographs, sculptural jewelry, plays, and short stories
  • Contents
    • Poetry Autobiography
    • Poetry
      • poetry autobiography
      • Recent Softcover Publications
        • Hineni
          • Foreward
          • and then I saw the angles (malachim)
          • bus rider
          • HaifaHolyLandBreakBreadHouse
          • Leonardo da Vinci Airport
          • love's last dance
          • Mr. Will and Mr. Way
          • orange and Bermuda wine passage
          • Patty's Tsror
          • no sunlight, no healing
          • siphorot (spirit)
          • so what conflict separates
          • Tanta Tsfat
          • Tel Aviv (a love poem?)
          • The Haunting
          • the very best among us
          • tsaddik
          • Tsror
        • Sunflowers, Sutras, Wheatfields, and other Art Poems
          • Foreward
          • Candle
          • Classical Serenades
          • Easter in Birdland
          • folds in the same garment
          • no timer on the hill
          • painting in a jar
          • rap rap
          • some Trane
          • Sunflowers, Sutras, Wheatfields (for Erik Satie)
          • sweetening the sweet sky
          • to be or not to bop (too)
          • The First Jazz Musician
          • The Muse: shining portal on the cusp of a deadend street
          • The Pianist
        • The Silence Inside The Noise
          • Foreward
          • a prediction after losing time back:
          • Acadian Dreaming
          • as another cycle begins
          • before this, there was nothing more than this
          • Bisbee Rain Collage
          • Christmas Eve in India
          • damaged
          • Dream 23 (again)
          • ensconced
          • Nyx
          • Paradise
          • signature of surrender
          • Song of My Soul
          • The Silence Inside The Noise
          • We Are Connected
          • ...what comes around...
          • White Buffalo Woman's Long Climb
          • wishing I were here
        • Dancing Through Doorways
          • Foreward
          • a backbeat of discord
          • an unresolved Paterson expedition
          • Brown Nihilismus
          • Bulletproof
          • dancing through doorways
          • dream 1014; no exit
          • Far Rockaway Revisited
          • final solution
          • HoRsE
          • image and the images
          • July Mercy On Broadway
          • mouse's back
          • nails and wood
          • Pound for Pound
          • preTend
          • signature Of surrender
          • The Fires in Our Hearts
          • to Be or not to Bop (too)
          • Toasting Passion on a Supposed Ferry
          • upon a time in manhattan
          • who is Stranger
      • NYC Collected Poems
        • a backbeat of discord
        • an unresolved Paterson expedition
        • Brown Nihilismus
        • BULLETPROOF
        • Dancing Through Doorways
        • Day of The Panthers
        • dream 1014
        • Easter Morning 72st Boat Basin
        • Far Rockaway Revisited
        • For friends…call 692-1500, and ask for Neil or Doris
        • I want October fires
        • image and the images
        • July Mercy on Broadway
        • Knives Between Trees
        • memories are transparent love affairs
        • mouse's back
        • nails and wood
        • No need driving on my day off
        • Pound for Pound
        • pretend
        • signature of surrender
        • The Fires in Our Hearts
        • to be or not to bop
        • Toast for Passion on a Supposed Ferry
        • up against the wall brothers and sisters
        • upon a time in manhattan
        • who Is Stranger?
      • 2022-2025
        • bardic whisperers
        • Constellation of Joy
        • Dancing Through Doorways
        • Desert Wind
        • ensconced
        • Her Lips My Loadstone
        • Inspiration
        • la fuerza de la Nahua
        • Not So Brilliant, So Brilliant
        • Stars Inside This Sea
        • these rivers that run so deep…
        • The Hopeful New Yorker
        • the silence inside the noise
        • Tikkun Olam
        • Treasure
      • 2019-2021
        • a prediction after losing time back:
        • Acadian dreaming
        • another legacy patches these skies…
        • as another cycle begins…
        • before this, there was nothing more than this
        • Bisbee Rain Collage
        • calls for camouflage
        • Dream 23 (again)
        • from the back of a western pickup
        • Nyx
        • paradise
        • someplace where…
        • song of my soul
        • state of the union
        • the artist (for Yves Klein)
        • to be or not to bop (for Dizzy Gillespie)
        • transformation
        • Treasure the Fool (signature of surrender)
        • Walter deYoung’s Farm (don’t mind workin on Walter’s Farm no more…)
        • …what comes around…
        • White Buffalo Woman’s Long Climb
        • wishing I were here
        • why the poet writes poems
      • 2016-2018
        • a time when
        • adventure lives
        • after their gold rush
        • Billy's Bench
        • Calm and Joy
        • Candle
        • Death by Suicide
        • Easter in Birdland
        • fallen angels
        • folds in the same garment
        • impostor
        • mojado
        • Moloch Revealed
        • Poseidon’s Revenge
        • the muse: shining portal on the cusp of a dead end street
        • the sentinel
        • Uncle John Wayne
        • weed wacked
        • why I write poems…
        • Woodstock or Saudi Arabia
        • The Hebraic Trilogy
          • and then I saw the angels (malach)
          • Patty's Tsror
          • siphorot
          • the very best among us
          • tsaddik
          • tsror
        • The Israel Poems
          • bus rider
          • HaifaHolyLandBreakBreakHouse
          • Leonardo de Vinci Airport
          • love's last dance
          • Mr. Will and Mr. Way
          • no sunlight, no healing
          • orange and Bermuda wine passage
          • so what conflict separates?
          • tanta Tsfat
          • “Tel Aviv” (a love poem?)
          • The Haunting
          • bus rider
      • 2010-2015
        • a most peculiar man
        • Alphabet City
        • America the Phoenix
        • another ghastly holiday season
        • backs against the tide
        • Beowulf and Thorina
        • blizzard possibilities
        • Courage
        • Cousin Alan
        • Daylight Neha
        • Dr. Zero: A Prophetic Fantasy
        • empty sky
        • epoch
        • eternity
        • Francine’s Epiphany
        • from the back of a pickup
        • ghost
        • glacier
        • HOURGLASS
        • Japanese Wooden Ships
        • mouse's back
        • On Broadway
        • Ophelia
        • our apartment of profound Poetry
        • patchouli never wanes
        • Poem for 3 Graduating Seniors
        • Prolific fingers
        • Rainberry Dog Park
        • Shanibird
        • shining on brightly
        • some Trane
        • Sunflowers, Sutras, Wheatfields (for Erik Satie)
        • sweetening the sweet sky
        • The Natural
        • The Nazi Boys
        • The Pianist
        • “to bring love to a single being is of much use”
        • two recollections
        • Tsunami
        • you’re not the only one
        • what comes around
        • without a God
        • Writers Workshop goes pop
      • 1990-2009
        • because I’ve never been there
        • bent heads
        • cactusflower
        • Chorus of Horns, Brahma of Om
        • Christmas Eve in India
        • Geoff and Susan’s Farm
        • How to Write a Poem
        • L’Chaim
        • Louisiana Green Louisa
        • ocotillos form this forward path
        • on first seeing the Taj Mahal
        • Profound
        • rap rap
        • risk it
        • So I appreciate, so I am grateful…
        • solitary in her room
        • Sum
        • The Great Circus
        • triangular exchange
        • “You're my enemy!” (revised)
        • vibes
        • visions
        • we are connected
      • The 1980's
        • After The Fruit
        • All of My Friends Are BackEast
        • Bad Teeth and Smelly Feet
        • Barefoot BoBByBaBy
        • Betrayal
        • blood
        • Bluecity, Rivercity
        • Bluefeet
        • Blues
        • Classical Serenades
        • Completion
        • Coney Island Family
        • crosswind
        • Dance!
        • Dream 23
        • dream 1013: you and me
        • dream 1014: no exit
        • FISHERWOMAN
        • FLYING
        • frozen moon
        • HoRsE
        • howdy type
        • i ching wisdom: “Ascending”
        • i ching wisdom: “Melting of the Ego”
        • i ching wisdom: “Modesty”
        • I Want October Fires
        • image and the images
        • in place of Eros
        • inside a ring
        • Island of Roses
        • IT IS INSPIRATION
        • Knives between Trees
        • last chance for choosing
        • Lost and Old Rivers
        • memories are transparent love affairs
        • muddy road
        • multi-bug universe
        • Music of the Swings
        • Nails and Wood
        • Oblong Ice Gestures
        • Ode to a Beaten Church
        • Oporto Suppertime
        • Paradise Cemetery
        • parallel lines
        • Pound for Pound
        • pretend
        • rereading the Anarchist Cookbook
        • Señor Blind Coyote
        • signature of surrender
        • Sky Falling
        • slow pitch wiffleball
        • Survival
        • tantric circle
        • The Fires in Our Hearts
        • The Gate
        • The Last Antiwar Poem
        • THIRD WORLD
        • Those Demons Again
        • Toast for Passion on a Supposed Ferry
        • truckstop in sight
        • up against the wall brothers and sisters
        • upon a Time in Manhattan
        • Waiting and Fasting
        • Yucca, why?
      • The 1970's
        • 23 Directions
        • 28 miles from MagicTown
        • a bus runs through bisbee (for pam)
        • A Most Special Room in Krause Cabin
        • a sky above
        • abandoned
        • after reading Bashō
        • Albion Moonlight
        • Allopathic Nursery
        • an unbeatable force
        • an unresolved paterson expedition
        • another empty exhibition game
        • another gas pump-stop
        • Apollo Counter Mission
        • astrology reading
        • Bad Buffalos Never Had A Chance
        • BAT & FROGGY ARE AT THE DOOR
        • Birthday in Albuquerque
        • Black & White Reflections
        • Blind Bird Looking For A Home
        • blueberry pie
        • blueberry ships
        • borrowed time
        • Breakdown Across The Board
        • Bridge of Sighs
        • China Syndrome
        • Circle in a Circle
        • CIRCLING PINES
        • Composed May 4, 1970
        • Coyote Spakes
        • Day of The Panthers
        • Denver
        • deuces up on the scoreboard
        • dining on elation
        • dissent
        • Dirt Street Cafe: Desserts and Beverages
        • Dirt Street Cafe: Lunch Specials
        • Dirt Street Cafe: Morning Specials
        • Dirt Street Café Poem
        • Dizzy
        • down by the ol kitchen sink blues
        • Drowning
        • dualities of the mind
        • Earth Mother Bernice
        • Earth Shuttles
        • Easter Morning 72st Boat Basin
        • Edith
        • Every Fool Loves Sunsets
        • exercise in exposing John Wayne’s jail
        • Far Rockaway
        • Father Flying Home
        • flush
        • for Bob Dylan
        • For friends…call 692-1500, and ask for Neil or Doris
        • For Laurie, and Her Runaway Hitchhiker Hat
        • for my cat, Albion Moonlight
        • for the poets of North Beach
        • Fresno Hotel, NorthBeach
        • from Fred’s letter…
        • from the Distant Past,
        • Funk Grove Sold Out”…realized but continued
        • GAS HERE NOW
        • Goddess
        • great colosseum
        • Had More To Show In Missouri
        • Happy Birthday Magictown
        • Hard–on Blues
        • Harry Haller
        • have it yr way…
        • Have You Seen Her?
        • Hearing Those Voices Again
        • Hey, spend the night with me on Mill St.
        • Highway Rule Games
        • hitching a ride…
        • Home Thru The West
        • horses are smarter
        • How Late Does Ya’ll Go Till
        • in warm dream
        • Inertia From The Woods
        • inside and outside the box
        • Insomnia Backyard Movement
        • Instant Drunk…
        • Intuition
        • Is It The Time Yet?
        • Jerboa
        • Jigsaw Puzzle
        • Just Another Knight On Straight Street
        • Kansas Calling Midnight
        • Kansas Epitaph
        • KEEP YOUR FINGERS OUT OF YOUR MIND WHILE WAITING FOR THE UNDERTAKER
        • KPOO
        • Lake Hopatcong love poem
        • Lakeside
        • Landscape
        • LEAVING NEW YORK TENDERBERRY
        • Leo’s Gig
        • Let There Be Love
        • lets call this: you set the alarm clock for 11 and ill set it
        • Liberty Bell
        • Like Courage Written in Chalk
        • Long Train
        • love poem 7308
        • LSD Waterfall
        • memory of a runaway son (Kansas calling Midnight)
        • Milford, PA
        • MILK GOAT- a child’s small horse…
        • Money Wont Change You
        • MONUMENT
        • Mother and Child Reunion
        • Mt Tam
        • mystery to me
        • Needles and Points
        • Nest in a Tree
        • never again!
        • New Paltz Woods
        • nighTrain
        • Night with Sunny at Howie’s Place
        • No Exit
        • No need driving on a day off
        • No Sense Contributions
        • no timer on the hill
        • No Trips Without A Tripper!
        • North Country Come Down
        • NORTHBEACH MIRACLE
        • NOT LATE ENOUGH TO LEAVE
        • Oakland Raiders
        • oakland-haiku
        • OCEAN FLOW
        • OCEANS OF SAND
        • Ode to Chandler and Price
        • off the wall
        • OMSHANTIOM
        • On This Day
        • on visiting with a guy
        • Package Boxes
        • painting in a jar
        • Pancho Villa (composed in Spanish)
        • paper tossed into fire
        • Paperback Disaster
        • Passions That Grow Fewer Empty The Heart of Blindness
        • Past a Blue Note, Inside
        • Peepin Down A Periscope
        • Pennant Fever
        • Phantasmagoria in Mexico
        • PITTSBURGH PICK-UP
        • plans
        • Poem for a Unicorn Lady
        • Poem for Salt Lake Billy
        • polite silence
        • process of elimination…
        • pumpkin pie
        • rats are the only true revolutionaries
        • Rebuilt Sandwiches
        • reinventing my shadow
        • ride this old road as far as Liberty
        • rocks…
        • San Francisco Bop
        • San Francisco Rundown---
        • Satori in Oregon!
        • SAY Whaa--
        • Selling Wax Soap
        • Shadow Poem
        • Shivah
        • Smitty’s New York
        • so predictions come true
        • Song of St. Louis
        • Song of The Silent Now
        • Spirit of the Poet
        • STILL NOT LATE ENOUGH TO LEAVE
        • Stop The World
        • Sunday Desert Pilgrimage
        • sweet and sour Mexico
        • Tea with Henry Miller
        • The First Jazz Musician
        • that’s almost calling it
        • the name of this verse will be duplicated
        • the very holy snowflakes
        • The Well
        • This Stop Home St. Louis
        • Tigerland
        • to peel away in courage
        • To The Poets From Yonkers
        • toast
        • transformation
        • Travlin Snows
        • Tuner
        • unresolved expedition
        • Untitled
        • Up Brewery Gulch
        • velocity sacrifice
        • Wakefield Mine Jam Session
        • Wakefield Mine Poem #19
        • Warm Snow
        • WaterBrother on Grant St.
        • WATERWASH
        • What to Call This Child
        • When Holder Becomes Gatherer
        • when’s it gonna come down?
        • Who Is Stranger?
        • without you
        • WORKINGMAN’S INTEREST
        • Zen of Chopping Wood
      • Early Poems
        • A Bible Written By Traitors
        • a child’s busride around Teaneck ( a dream recalled)
        • a hitchhiker’s guide to the muse
        • Another Sister
        • as strangers often do
        • Asthma
        • Beaver College Physical
        • BLUES IMPROVISATION
        • Broken Horn
        • Crevasse Reflections
        • Eat In Or Carry Out (a cut up)
        • For Friends (killed in Vietnam)...
        • free love
        • I am 17 again and I dream of you
        • im a spy
        • Ist Reading (for Kenneth Patchen)
        • It’ll Come to Something
        • it’s been a while
        • lines composed a few short hours from home
        • magic and moves
        • My Very First Poem
        • New
        • Night Before The Sky
        • NOW
        • oh Plato
        • One Hour of Sleep by Any Means Necessary
        • Passion Drinker
        • Pleasure Is A Lonely Thing
        • Poets Never Die- they only lose their sunglasses
        • predestination
        • Ravellsfix
        • REDWOODS TALK TO ME
        • Reincarnation
        • REPETITION
        • Runnin Out’v Words
        • smile to the ebb tide
        • Sunday desert pilgrimage
        • TERMINATION OF BIG BROTHER
        • TRANSMUTATION THROUGH OPPOSITES
        • upon notice
        • Warm Snow
        • What Ocean You Talkin bout?
        • whatever you do in your head bears the prerecorded pattern of your head
        • when the wind stops blowing
      • The Ocean of Winter
      • Friends' Books of Poetry
        • "The Fox" by Bill Roberts
        • "Cantata" by Carmen Megeath
      • bardic whisperers
    • Haikus
      • A Stay At Home Saturday Night
      • after reading Bashō
      • CIRCLING PINES
      • DOG BREATH
      • hard-on-blues
      • im a spy
      • inside a ring
      • man is a political animal
      • Monk and Picasso
      • more to show in Missouri
      • Oakland Haiku
      • oblong ice gestures
      • Prayer
      • Prism
      • Rotating Silvery Spokes
      • Satori in Oregon
      • Satori in Oregon 2
      • Sneakers
      • Sunday Desert Pilgrimage
      • unbroken horn
      • Wakefield Mine Haiku
      • Zen of Chopping Wood
    • Plays and Short Stories
      • "I Want You"
      • Art and Pleasure
      • Crime Without Punishment: A One-Person Play
      • Dr. Zero: A prophetic fantasy
      • Dream from 2.23.76
      • Elegy for John Lennon
      • Eternity
      • evolved human beings?
      • FOOD & PENS ( a Zen Koan play)
      • Go Piss In A Phonebooth!
      • KBDY: Clothesline Radio (“if wishes were fishes we’d all cast nets”)
      • lines composed a few short hours from home
      • on loving too much
      • The Black Snake
      • The Progressive Hand of Anarchy
      • the unraveling of one James Douglas Morrison
      • unification of “I” and “me”
      • up to no good
      • “Inside”- a dramatic play
    • Artist Biography
    • Paintings
    • Photographs
      • Antelope Canyon
      • Bisbee
      • Chiricahuas & Gila Mts
      • Europe March/April 2025
      • Florida
      • India
      • Israel
      • Paintings
      • Louie Louie
      • Nature
      • Nebraska Flatwaters
      • NY & NJ
      • Seattle
      • Travels with Shaaz
      • Sonoita
      • Storm King Art Center
      • Sunsets
      • Southern Utah
      • Memories and Friends Decades Past
    • Sculptural Jewelry
    • Reviews
    • Contact
Robert Feldman: a collection of my poetry, paintings, photographs, sculptural jewelry, plays, and short stories

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Click here for comments from the artist on his signature "Fire Paintings"

"Elephants"
"Phantasmagoria in Blue"
36" x 36" (oli, acrylic, plaster compound, and fire) 12/17/25
"Courvoisier"
16x40; acrylic, drywall compound & fire (December, 2025)
"Carnaval"
"YardBird Sweet"
"FiftySecond St Bop"
"Ruby My Dear"
"Milestones"
"Warm Fire"
"Epistrophe"
"Green Fire"
"Now's The Time"
"Bahia" (unframed/framed)
"Integration"
"Tropicalismo"
"Northern Lights"
"The Audacity of Color"
"Fire Painting for MayDay"
"Einstein in Dichodomy"
"Blues on Blonds"
"Kid in a ToyStore"
"Mandala"
"Elephant"
"Spring Fire Painting #1"
"Spring Fire Painting #3"
"Abracadabra"
"Well You Needn't"
"Ocean of Winter"
"Easy Being Green"
"Burnt Hair"
(24 x 20 Acrylic & Fire) Fall, 1991
"Horizontal Fire Painting #1"
"Matador"
(matted and framed)
(24 x 20 Acrylic & Fire) Fall, 1991

"Elephants" 

53x47 (acrylic, drywall compound, holes, & fire; December, 2025)...started this painting approximately 15 yrs ago in Florida (for a literary mag published in Bangalore, India), always considering/transitioning colors and the many holes formed by misfirings, until this reincarnation, albeit many yrs later here in Tucson 

"Phantasmagoria in Blue" 

36" x 36" (oli, acrylic, plaster compound, and fire) 12/17/25 

"Courvoisier" 

16x40; acrylic, drywall compound & fire (December, 2025) 

"Carnaval" 

12x48 (acrylic, drywall compound & fire; November, 2025) 

"YardBird Sweet" 

30x48 (acrylic, drywall compound & fire; October, 2025) 

"FiftySecond St Bop" 

12x48 (acrylic, oil, plaster compound, gesso, & fire; November, 2025) 

"Ruby My Dear" 

18x24 (acrylic, oil, drywall compound & fire; October, 2025) 

"Milestones"

(18 x 24) Acrylic, Drywall Compound & Fire; September, 2025 

"Warm Fire"

(16x 40) Acrylic, Drywall Compound & Fire) September, 2025 

"Epistrophe"

(18 x 24) Acrylic, Drywall Compound & Fire) September, 2025 

"Green Fire"

(16x 40) Acrylic, Plaster & Fire) September, 2025 

"Now's The Time"

(40 x 37 Acrylic, Plaster & Fire) August, 2025 

"Bahia" (unframed/framed)

(50 x 45 Acrylic, Plaster & Fire) July, 2025 

"Integration" 

(24 x 30, Acrylic & Fire) May, 2025 

"Tropicalismo"

(40 x 30 Acrylic & Fire) May, 2025 

"Northern Lights"

(48 x 30 Acrylic & Fire) April, 2025)

"The Audacity of Color"

(40 x 30 Acrylic & Fire) Spring, 2024 

"Fire Painting for MayDay"

(36 x 36 Acrylic, Plaster, & Fire) Spring, 2024

"Einstein in Dichodomy"

(44 x 35 Acrylic, Mixed Media, & Fire) Fall, 2015

"Blues on Blonds"

(36 x 36 Acrylic, Fire) Spring, 2024

"Kid in a ToyStore"

(51 x 46 Acrylic & Fire) Fall, 2018

"Mandala"

(40 x  38 Oil, Acrylic, Plaster, & Fire) Fall, 2014

"Elephant"

(53 x 47 Acrylic, Plaster, & Fire) Fall, 2010

"Spring Fire Painting #1"

(24 x 18 Acrylic, Plaster, & Fire) Spring, 2023

"Spring Fire Painting #3"

(24 x 18 Acrylic, Plaster, & Fire) Spring, 2023

"Abracadabra"

Fall, 2013

"Well You Needn't" 

(72 x 48 Acrylic & Fire) Fall, 2018

  "Ocean of Winter" 

(96 x 46 Oil, Plaster & Fire) Fall, 1988

 "Easy Being Green"

(72 x 48 Acrylic & Fire) Spring, 1992

"Burnt Hair"

(24 x 20 Acrylic & Fire) Fall, 1991

 "Horizontal Fire Painting #1" 

(21 x 9 Oil & Fire) Fall, 1975

(framed under glass)

"Matador" 

(matted and framed)

(24 x 20 Acrylic & Fire) Fall, 1991

"Mangroves"

(48 x 32 Acrylic & Fire) Summer, 2018


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