Tuesday 28 June 2011

Magpie's nest of vipers

What the artist’s wife said.



















I can’t bear to look, ‘cause it makes
Me freak out and suffer the shakes.
They might be fine art
But to me, Darling Heart,
They look far too much like real snakes!

Less scary takes on the prompt at Magpie Tales.

16 comments:

  1. like real snakes?
    fantastic portray of the image.
    powerful magpie.

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  2. What a woosy wife :)

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  3. You saw the movie "Snakes On A Plane" didn't you!! Very quick and to the point piece!

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  4. Dear Stafford: You got me belly to laughing'! Thanks for the scary snakes in a can! Remember those! Yah..I can see it!

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  5. Its taking me a while to work out what they actually are.

    Good take!

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  6. they do look like snakes - but I thought the kind children eat that come in a Blinky Bill packet!

    lovely poem

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  7. That is what good art does, allows us room to see in our own way.

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  8. hah! Good one!
    I first saw surfboards, then I saw orthotics ....then I saw the art!

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  9. This is very cute I am not afraid of snakes though. Centipedes though now they scare me!

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  10. Stafford! No one else would see snakes! Now I saw what anyone else would. Flying boats!

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  11. Awwww....I love this one! Even although I had to Google 'Darling Heart'!

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  12. This is the third time this morning I've seen that picture of snakes. What is it with the snakes? I'm missing something here, I know! :)

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  13. Stafford,
    Snakes, colorful snakes! They look cute in such colors that we forget they can get lethal.

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  14. Worms, worms, worms. I don't care for snakes!

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