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Burning SkyOh, suddenly I saw a sulphur-covered sky
That hovered over city like a menace mad
Or maybe God was burning down his palace high.
(So, Heaven, should your yellow sky have made us sad?)

I thought there was a fire on surface of our land
When, absent-mind, at night-time sky I gazed.
And surely lighter must have had an evil hand
For sun had set, but eastern sky was now ablaze.

And at that fearful sky I could not cease to stare
As never had I seen in sky such hell-like strife.
The evening light still lingered, but the gold-sky there!
It was the most magnificent of views in life.

Perchance there was no light that spillèd from the sk

SilenceI hate the routine banging in our class,
The dull ear-shattering non-music sound.
Prejudiced? In my lungs resounds the bass
And anger in my head goes round and round.

Perhaps you think my anger is not fair
As this is only music, albeit loud.
But lovely singing has become a blare
And hearing sharp has always made me proud.

Perchance one day I shall have silence true,
Well, maybe when I am completely deaf.
(Though that is thought quite frightening and new.)

There is a fantasy that brings relief:
That world is silent, empty, sunny blue.
I stand in midland, hearing sea's song brief.

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Ambergoldby ~Elestra

Digital Art / Photomanipulation / People

_{And look, for I am the Amber and the Gold, the one I seem and the one you think not I be. The luxury-lover of a noble and the crafter, and the poet, and the ignorant, and the lady, and the enthantress.

And look, for I am not the one you think me to be. Neither of us is.

I am Ambergold.}

Dedicated to *Iardacil, the best manipper I know and a lovely dreamer.

I've wanted to do this picture for almost a year. Finally I had the Photoshop, the stock, and the skills I think I needed. I am really proud of it, because it was almost as complicated as A Secret Garden. I tend to blend the layers as I work, but there must have been over thirty of them. Time... ten hours, maybe more. Not sure any more.

In the beginning I thought it would be a manip about Fool, the epicmost character of The Farseer and The Tawny Man trilogies by Robin Hobb. After searching for the perfect model everywhere I finally found it. My idea was to portray him/her somewhen between being Amber and lord Golden, that is, still a crafter, already a noble and utterly ambiguous. However, time passed and the idea became something else. I am not quite sure what, but I like it.

Intriguingly, this seems to be the fourth manip of my accidental seasonal mini-series. It has summer in it, after all.

Although maybe I'll do something else that has summer feeling.

_{Resources used:
~Momotte2stocks (the view) =xNickixstockx (the window) `lockstock (the curtain) *Iardacil-stock (the lady and the ribbon brush) =Mithgariel-stock (the ewer) =assimilated (the fan) ~jaded-reflection (the goblet) ~Serpent-Stock (the earring) *lucretia-stock (the butterfly) `spiritsighs (light ray brush) ~FantasyBrushes (the vines brushes)}