As we celebrate the month of February,  the image of  “Hearts” come to mind.  So I decided  paint one of my favorite poems,  Antonio Machado’s “Last Night As I was Sleeping.”   Antonio Machado is a spanish poet that lived 1875 – 1939.

I dreamt – blessed vision! –

that a fountain flowed here in my heart.

I said: Why, O water, have you come along this secret waterway,

spring of new life, which I have never tasted?

Last night, as I was sleeping,

I dreamt – blessed vision! –

that I had a beehive here in my heart;

and the golden bees were making from all my old sorrows

white wax and sweet honey.

Last night as I was sleeping,

I dreamt – blessed vision! –

a blazing sun shone here in my heart.

It was blazing because it gave heat from a red home,

and it was sun because it gave light

and because it made me weep.

Last night, as I was sleeping,

I dreamt – blessed vision! –

that it was God I had here in my heart.