Male Model Leaning Against A Tree: Poem by Charles Bryant

[johnknight999]

that's how I looked the day i squirted out the womb

[brychar66]

You must have been a beautiful baby :)

[autumn1942]

Oh Chales how wicked!!!!!!! We love you in Canada!!!!

[superdooperstupor]

Among the most beautiful descriptions of male sensuality I've ever heard/read. The sequence of images mirrors the text. Firstly,the model is bathed in bright sunlight except for the shadowy semblance of a fig leaf strategically placed. As the poem progresses and acknowledges how even such a luminous beauty can be worn by time,like the pages of those magazines for which he posed, the nude eventually appears seated, still alluring, but gravity and the shadows of overhanging leaves portend decline.

[thienmodel]

i love model like this

[brychar66]

;) yes he is great

[brychar66]

haha thank you very much but that sounds like spam to me :)

[juanarm]

thank you rustic king

[written12]

Well, Charles, we always knew we could count on you to draw something poignant and spiritual from such a photograph. The poem rouses such a mixture of feelings- the eternal power of beauty and that melding of the physical with the spiritual. But I can't help feeling so sad at how time tames and finally vanquishes us all. In the Met last week the beautiful Byzantine faces stared at me from across a thousand years. What sense can we make that such people are brought to life only to vanish?

[algabal]

Your extreme sensualism is very powerful Charles, and as usual your poetic feeling and choice of vocabulary are impeccable. But I wonder if there isn't something more of artifice than Greek splendor in these photographs.

[brychar66]

Thank you Dominic. Well I suppose it's hard to feel natural with a camera pointed at you, especially with no clothes on! But he seems to have carried it off pretty well. I love your phrase 'Greek splendor'. Charles.

[megansspark]

Beautiful poem Charles, sensual and spiritual, the best combination. Your reading was lovely as well :)

[brychar66]

Thanks Megan - I tried to get in the idea of the psyche incarnating itself; rather than the more usual idea of psyche arising from matter. Charles.