Mornings In Bed - Part V - Talula wants to climb to the top of Michelangelo's.....

dome. Ya know...the one at St. Peters.

To dance in the streets of Rome as TalulaRoma!

Talula is going to bow down right now in what looks like downward dog...
but it is in homage to a great artist...and in no way is her sacrilege, sarcasm, irreverence and/or any disrespect ever, ever, intended to devalue the masters in any way. These writings are intended as humorous tributes to those who inspire Talula Love Bottoms..and at times, between the lines, they really are not that funny.

I actually quiver when I think of his works....
See..it's nearly impossible for Talula's love of art not to sound sexual.

So...with that said; shall we climb?

In this Talula relates...
"Michelangelo had never been the terrible-tempered troglodyte his enemies liked to portray. It is true in his blackest moods he was, to put it plainly, impossible, and at such times he seemed almost to take a savage satisfaction in being unloved and unlovable"... "For a great many years Michelangelo's commitments to friendship had been limited to his obsessive commitment to his art."

Michelangelo was tense, neurotic, and always restlessly searching for deeper significance. Everything he created reveals an inner conflict, and unreconciled struggle.

Talula. Talula. Talula.

..."what use to want to make so many puppets,
If they have made me in the end like him
Who crossed the water, and then drowned in slops?

My honored art, wherein I was for a time
In such esteem, has brought me down to this:
Poor and old, under another's thumb,

I am undone if I do not die fast."

"In this pessimism lies the central quality of Michelangelo's genius."
John Walker

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I pose this question in regards to the above statement to the handful of you that actually read this...

An inner struggle...that produces art like the body of work that Michelangelo completed...to still at days end be met with doubt? Was it that he knew that the greatest works on earth were to come from two levels of spirituality earthly and the opposite and;

is it the present day state of our society as a whole? However...earth has failed terribly and the spiritual world is struggling with the worth of it's creation...like Michelangelo???
Does that make any sense? It was very difficult to write?

Because to me...his work is what I believe to be heavenly.
But to look at it only creates sadness in my world.
I bow down to it...
but in knowledge that he was trying to tell us something else.

Which is hard to swallow.
"that the contemplation of physical beauty will lead to spiritual revelation."

Anyhoot...it "looks" like Talula dances down the streets of Rome alone...Tendu, tombe, plie, releve, plie, straight, tendu, first....
but in her mind she dances with Michelangelo!!!...and shocker!!! He's a great dancer too!!!

Oh...side note; his formative years were spent in linen. A personal goal of Talula's titled "The linen years".

Peace out St. Peter; let's do yoga again soon!
TLBRoma.

"art is a lie that tells the truth" Pablo Picasso