trees waltzing in dots
as boats drift into grey haze;
folks seek Sunday calm ~
hands rest in dappled sunlight
parasols , like mushrooms, bloom
Putting on the style at Grande Yatte*
'stipletized' by Georges Seurat
in pointillist perfection
on the eye a 'delectation'
frozen moments of Sunday's past-
in bygones archive yet reside
Like a Seurat painting
I view my life up close
and see a million tiny colored dots:
eating breakfast
driving to work
writing a poem
watching television
playing a game
singing a song
going to the park on a Sunday afternoon
You view these dots
from the proper distance,
blend them together
with kind, generous eyes
and you see art
(an ekphrasis poem after the pointillism painting "A Sunday Afternoon
on the Island of La Grande Jatte", by Georges Seurat, 1886)
Georges Seurat-
his point of view joins up the dots
small dots before our eyes-
the picture...we devise
pointillism- after Georges Seurat
http://www.abcgallery.com/S/seurat/seurat.html
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