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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
"Milestones"
"Warm Fire"
"Epistrophe"
"Green Fire"
"Now's The Time"
"Bahia"
"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

Table of Contents:

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

"Milestones"
"Warm Fire"
"Epistrophe"
"Green Fire"
"Now's The Time"
"Bahia"
"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

"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"

(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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