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    LOVE IT SO MUCH!
    Sand 'tween my toes
    and minimal clothes
    make for fun in the sun
    yeah you know it!

    but the seashore at night
    is a sensual sight
    as the moonbeams
    sow love seeds for poets!

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    Time
    Time is a weird thing
    goes sooo slow when yer
    waiting for the bell to ring
    goes fast on Christmas
    and sunny days
    and when you're in love
    it compresses and strays,
    time is elastic
    and sometimes like glue
    but it's never wasted
    when I talk to you!

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    Artists
    all great artists seem full of doubt
    there is too much inside
    and not enough out
    but each piece of art
    makes someones day,
    perhaps our souls
    need it that way.

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    kharmalade
    Would this have made
    a good last day?
    did I accomplish
    any kharmalade goal?
    did I climb some sunsetted peak

    by the bay
    to placate my expectant soul?
    no, but i did take a second
    to look around
    like that dude
    with his own Iron Chefs,
    and in that infinity portal
    i'll go as a mortal
    suspecting it's all for the best....

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    SOMETHING GOOD
    I remember something good
    back when days
    unfolded like
    a grand adventure should.
    I don't want to just fit in
    be functional like some machine,
    I want a purpose
    need the wind
    to blow the scent of fortune
    on my skin.
    Are you of that small percent
    who cannot fold
    who will not bend
    who takes a soul and strips it bare
    not because you can
    but because it's there... ?

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    You Is You
    You are you and that is good
    you may not be what they say you should
    or be that which you cannot be
    and you wouldn't want to be like me
    but I see you as you and so
    if you see me unmasked say "yo"
    "what makes Me me is all unique
    what makes us Us makes us complete"

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    I Artist
     i sometimes wonder

    if it is so
    that I am an artist 
    simply because i say so
    was I born with talent
    to write or to paint?
    a prodigy perhaps?
    there's no doubt that I aint
    not a leader or lackey
    no big money schemes
    but an artist 
    resulting from having big dreams
    they say visualise
    what you want to be
    regardless of what people say
    and all will come true
    quite possibly
    maybe
    some happy day!!

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    THE DANDYLION STAR
    Amongst the speckled field of black
    I saw the dandylion star
    it winked at me
    and I winked back
    and sent that wish up far,
    the other stars
    looked more like gems
    like diamonds stuck in tar,
    but I liked the mellow
    glow of the yellow
    wonderful dandylion star.
    like crystal fish the others sit
    cold like a platinum bar,
    but how can you miss
    when you make a wish
    upon the dandylion star?

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    WE TWO STARS
    We two stars
    burn so intense
    without pretence or fuss
    and what would we say
    if somewhere far away
    someone made a wish upon us?
    for the darker the night
    the brighter the light
    that shines for every face
    so get up and stay
    in the vast milky way
    and add your light to the space!

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    "Five 46PM" acrylic on canvas 36x48 inches 2003

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The Dragon of Apathy must die!

dragon battle oil painting by darren daz cox

This oil painting is getting nice and deep with the oil glazes.

When it’s done the light will be almost spotlighting  the girl and her brave steed, leaving the rest of the painting in smoky shadow as they fight the embodiment of negativity! The idea is to increase the drama of the narrative.

I fight against my own apathy, we all do, and this is what this painting is telling me.

Sometimes I think I should just be ’sensible’ and not get my hopes up thinking I’ll become some variation of famous but then I think of the cool artists that give me a reason to live and not just survive. Paul Gauguin, he could have stayed a stockbroker, done his art in his spare time, been frugal and perhaps retired early to be a full time artist, but he didn’t.

Same with van  Gogh, he could have been a janitor in a church, done God’s work while he supported himself, but he didn’t, and all these years later the idea of a tortured starving artist genius survives, giving us something to think about, a strange option, some tangiable brilliant alternative to sensible …

The more I learn about quantum physics and non-religious spirituality, the more important it seems to be to struggle against great odds, struggle but not ‘win at any cost’. The idea isn’t to win, it’s to fight against losing….

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5 Responses to “The Dragon of Apathy must die!”

  1. This one brings to mind so many fellow humans who have “snakes in their heads”, that is what me and mine call those who have toxic issues. This girl is trying to abolish said snakes, i think…go her!I love it! Only, mildly violent because she is doing humanity a favor.Again, you rock, Daz!

  2. Daz,
    It’s late at night, for me anyway,so disreguard this if it seems like babbling, but I have lately been getting this thought when I come here. As much as your art is outstanding and amazing, your thoughts and words are equally as profound and interesting too.

    I have been imagining a Beautiful Darren Daz Cox Art book complete with commentary and stories and wonderful fairies and delightful woodland creatures and spiritual thoughts and wonderings and complex quantim physics the Daz way all rolled into one. Not an E-book but a wonder of magic that could sit on a table and draw someone into the wonderful world of Daz. A place many of us would like to relax in at the end of the day.

    Wendi Kellys last blog post..Taking Time for Time Out.

  3. Oh, and poetry too. don’t forget the wonderful whimsical poetry. Got to have that.

    Wendi Kellys last blog post..Taking Time for Time Out.

  4. Thanks Pamster!

    Hi Wendi, I’m actually putting together a book with the booksmart software. I’m not sure how it will turn out but I do love the idea of combining things into a book! In the mean time my zine should be ready soon!

  5. Hi Darren,

    I think your art would look great in a book. I am looking forward to seeing the dragon painting finished. The snake is so big it represents struggle well and the girl and her house are so small against the snake making her fight with all the determination she has. This represents personal struggles of life well.

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