O nature's Babel towers here 'bove all
Sloping upward with her dense rugged wall
Blue and luminous in her misty dress
She suckles a city at her bright breast.
Yet the laborers are not found that built
The massive frame that brings worship to you
Goddess of the healing spring. We would wilt
Like plants suck dry without your shining dew.
And yet I looking up ponders now still
What volcanic art inspired set your will
In massive metaphor of stones? What fires
Poured out the rivers: opposing desires
From which the Liguanea unrolled?
Beneath your summit still you thrall my soul.
these two elements earth and water
polar opposites
but they come together every blue moon
to Create more poetry while molding like pottery
well more like pottery inspiring poetry
when artist hands meets clay
and causes contortions like cirque du soleil
A simple art to the makers but beauty in the eyes of mankind
The passionate synthesis of life and creation
Which embodies a certain aura
they almost get lost in the allure of the experience
The lump of clay conceals a purposeful beauty
the potter works tirelessly to release
fingers meet earthy canvas
and removes tension like atlas
till only the heavens remain
A collaboration of Njiba & Sipho
Autumn at an Automat
Austere aloofness.
Assessment approbation.
Allays apathy.
Inspired by Brian Strand’s Imagine Contest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat_(painting)
Poetic Form: Ekphrasis (Art Inspired) Haiku with Alliteration.
Sobriety
Somber sobering.
Sadness surpasses surprise.
Silent seclusion.
Poetry Form Ekphrasis (art inspired) Haiku with alliteration.
Inspired by Brian Strand’s Imagine Contest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat_(painting)
Glass
pictures
stones,sculpture-
in light and in
space
A tribute to Jim Ede of Kettles Yard-'A continuing Way of Life' This 'work of art' inspired by his
visits to Dunbarton Oaks and the Phillips Memorial Gallery whilst lecturing in the US
http://www.doaks.org/about/bliss_history.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Collection
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