It begins long before the pen touches the page,
in the quiet habit of noticing what others miss:
the amber morning streaming
through slatted blinds,
the heron lifting up from golden water.
To live this way is not to speak in rhyme,
But to breathe, to watch,
To listen for the rhythm.
It is the tea kettle whistling its low hymn,
Flour dusted across the counter,
The deliberate pace of walking slow enough
To hear what silence carries when it leaves.
You learn that nothing is too small to keep:
A river rock worn smooth by tide,
The wild fire of an evening sky,
The grief you thought would crush you into dirt.
Writing is only the light you bring back.
The poem itself was the breathing,
The wide eyes, the steady pulse,
The courage to face the grain of living
And find in it
A reason to begin again.
SIMPLICITY SERIES verticals
Painter Edward Coley Burne-Jones
on 'golden stairs" truly in the 'zone'
Such beauties in a spiral vertical
passive 'prb' so atypical
*Also see my SIMPLICITY SERIES prb babes
Crapsey Morley Moore & Levertov
each a Inventive female 'poetic toff'
American cinquain,syllabic&open organic
so let's honour with their portraits pic
So creative was Pablo Picasso
diverse art he gave them all a go
A journey from the humble portrait
'til three dimensional made him 'a great'
Ogden Nash Betjeman & E C Bentley
celebrated 'rhymers' all three
Poetry both long & short
easily recited so easily taught
Da Vinci Bottecelli & Michelangelo
a trio circa Raphael ' don't cha know'
Yet each now a famous 'individuelle'
queues at Art galleries is how you tell
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D G R Millais & Holman Hunt
had art inclinations so very blunt
Loving a style so pre Raphael
by just looking you can easily tell
*Also see my SIMPLICITY SERIES verticals
Monet Manet & Morisot
make an impression wherever they go
Most definitely t'was an art nouveau
'plein air ' and inside you know
Symbolist sweethearts are we
emblems of our era you see
Depicted by artists we knew
Klimt & Von Stuck to name just a few
Simplicity
by Frank Daub
I showed a wooden pencil to a friend.
He tried to give attention
going directly to the end
of the pointed lead.
“You have to sharpen that,” he said,
analyzing quickly my waste of time.
He preferred drop-down menus
on miniscule screens
while waiting in a line.
Delft's Johannes Vermeer
art being his particular sphere
Series of beautiful local girls
in addition to the one with the pearls
Artist Henri Matisse
wrote a learned treatise
Also many a model he did depict
maidens it seems all hand picked
The creation of the form imagism
caused a significant poetic schism
Penning poems was never the same
shorter verse greeted with acclaim
The art form known as DADA
causes a few ? ? & some ha-ha
Translates from french as hobby-horse
is left field 'outside the box' of course
Complexity
tangled, layered
multiplying, twisting, obscuring
knots of thought and motion
clearing, softening, opening
quiet, spacious
Simplicity
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