“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” -Leonardo da Vinci Painting Symphony is an exotic fiction in verses, a visual rhapsody of creative imagination! The verses weave a unique web of fantasy—a poetic Garden of Eden. Painters, musicians, poets, singers, ballet dancers join with the common folks in the Opera of Life, consuming the forbidden and non-forbidden fruits of life to enjoy the elixir! The Opera of Life presents a rainbow of colours of dancing human emotions: love, envy, lust, greed, lie, betrayal, treachery, corruption and crime! The fiction is honey-dipped in reality, striving to be ecstatic, philosophical and, at times, erotic, depending on the theme. The story of Painting Symphony begins with a few brushstrokes of colours to the universal human emotions. The painter uses an unusual medium—the pristine canvas of the flowing watery bosom of the River of Time! When colours are poured to desires, they bloom into flowers, and flow in the waves of time, like surrealistic paintings of liquid dreams! Painting Symphony is created uniquely to entertain, enlighten and exhilarate the readers. Open any poem and a sense of joie de vivre takes over, taking one on a roller-coaster ride to an esoteric, exotic and erotic poetic world. Enjoy!