“Brilliant Inventiveness”

 “Brilliant Inventiveness”

by Suzán Jiván Mom

& Mom-Mom Suzán 

Brilliant inventiveness 

pillared courts enormous halls

striking portraits beauty restored 

creative outpourings 

performers vaulting with immortal joy

freely drawn as funerary offerings 

in command of foreshortening …

“Silhouette-Like”

 “Silhouette-Like 

by Suzán Jiván Mom

& Mom-Mom Suzán 

Silhouette like

unknown forces of life 

underscoring might

far less in profile 

boldly swelling then fading 

behind colonnades

stressing harmonious 

support and weight 

as festive balanced grace …

“Uniform Bodies”

 “Uniform Bodies”

by Suzán Jiván Mom

& Mom-Mom Suzán 

Uniform bodies

as seen in high relief

eyes rendered in the round 

heraldic majesty 

guardians of the gate 

fascinating strangers

battling on vases

undergoing violent change 

lying in state grasped by fate …

“Strange As It May Seem”

 “Strange As It May Seem”

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán 

Strange as it may seem

emerging into the light of history 

acknowledging masterpieces 

massive bodies completely revealed

beneath striations of drapery 

freestanding sinewy qualities of ferocity 

plus passionate energy 

portrayed as a final phase on a vase painting …

“A Life of Its Own”

 “A Life of Its Own”

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

A life of its own exploitation of light

rainbow-hued radiance imagination 

intensity individuality unbridled fantasy 

being likened to “a wild unpruned tree …

“Reinterpreted”

 “Reinterpreted”

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

Reinterpreted splendid reliefs final agonies 

bulls dragons genius of animals 

imaginative rather abstract 

short of miraculous mastered grandeur 

altars fluted shafts open air …

“Fringed Mountains”

 “Fringed Mountains”

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán 

Fringed mountains short of miraculous 

standing nude females angular abstract 

varying in scale colored detail heraldic majesty …