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i have been fortunate to have found and been able to participate in several communities of artists, in austin via Austin Visual Arts Association and Creative Arts Society, in galveston via Galveston Arts League, and online, via dVersePoets
AVAA has been while, while GAL dates way back, and the latter, dVersePoets is almost still a baby, though past crawling and getting into some pretty good bursts of runs 😉
this week marks the one year anniversary of the latter, co-founded by brian miller and claudia schoenfeld
brian is a dad and husband and is based here in the u.s., while claude is a mom and a wife and based in europe –
an interesting engaging combo 😉
they have a full week of goodies planned, take a look, see if you’d like to participate or just enjoy seeing what this varied and talented group of poets and writers has to offer
my own contribution today, to one of their rotating prompts, like a poem i wrote recently, celebrating bastille day (and who of us can resist celebrating freedom 😉 ) is sparked by the creative air of france
like the earlier poem focussing on paris, these are based on some wonderful enduring memories from a trip my wife and i took over a decade ago
monet’s garden in giverny, it seems, is like a shrine to artists –
a lifetime dedicated to finding truth and beauty –
and creating it….
i hope you enjoy 😉
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Monet’s Garden in Giverny
i
can’t say it was
not what i expected
and
i can’t say
it was
the light april rain
though
was a relief
from the texas heat
we’d left behind
the grounds laid out
to bloom maximum florals
best for each month
and even each part
of a month
yes
impressive –
and
the pond with the japanese
bridge
oh yes 😉
almost told me
what this french artist
had found he could express
from his heart –
but
converted
into things for tourists
were
his workshop and home
with vanished eyes
still glancing
at people
who
visited –
me
my wife
and a few dozen others
and it felt like
some of those whispering looks
noticed
who was noticing them
and nodded
– to me –
oui monsieur oui
but
i heard them in pictures
so i asked them in same, saying
the gardens bloom out in layers with rows
criss-crossed by paths
and
the pond is ringed by flourishes
of
assorted arrangements
of
leaves feathered spikey all interwoven
colors and textures
all seen
from the room to room walls of windows peering
like eyeglasses cataracts removed
on the garden
and pond and seine
just beyond
and
i saw
monet’s garden
stretched as far as my heart wished it to…
oui monsieur oui
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good morning sir…too precise…smiles…perhaps i am too unprecise…about to head out to make the last run for home…coming home from vacation…top of the morning to you
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This made me think of not-so-long-ago when I was docenting at the NV Museum of Art. I used to like to ask the school children to put themselves into the paintings and tell a story, use their senses etc. You did that with Monet’s wonderful work. I think if I didn’t already know it, I could picture it in some way through your poem.
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that must have been a great job victoria!
and thank you for such a wonderful comparison, if i can do half as much as a child does naturally imagining into art, i’ll be ok, truly 😉
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Oh I have missed you!! Thank you for opening my heart again with your lovely words. I’m back and gravitating towards those things but mostly people who will stretch my heart as wide as it can. 🙂
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yea! thanks so much nikki, super good to hear from you 😉
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and
i saw
monet’s garden
stretched as far as my heart wished it to……very cool…i have heard that monet was an enthusiastic and passionate gardener…would love to visit one day…but then…maybe not really necessary as he managed to load it all into his paintings and into our hearts..
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“maybe not really necessary as he managed to load it all into his paintings and into our hearts..” –
we kinda felt that too; the place was very cool to visit, but more as to what it is now, what people have been able to maintain to re-create in homage to what he saw and painted
what i would like to see, is how the florals will change week to week, month to month, from april through not sure when their growing season ends, late sept? oct? we were told differing florals were planned and planted for optimum blooming through-out the non-winter, and in early april, we saw a lot, but only a hint of it
there’s a co-op food store here in vermont, city market, and they have a garden outside near their entrance they do that with, and week to week and even within a week new stuff is growing and blooming, it’s amazing
thanks claudia, big big congrats to ya’ll for a whole year of great opportunities and sharing 😉
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smiles…thank you …and wishing you a great weekend
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as well 😉 could well use a great weekend 😉
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It’s a wonderful, classic painting, and your short lines are like impressionistic daubs of paint that coalesce into a whole.
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samuel, thank you for such a beautifully descriptive compliment, my sincere thanks 😉
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Yoga – Adan – the initial link on dVerse was incorrect, but maybe it’s fixed now. You may check it out though if you are not getting visits. Very lovely close here especially – opening up heart and eyes, yes. k.
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K., thanks so much for letting me know 😉 i might’ve never known & who knows why the link went cookoo 😉
and esp glad you liked the ending, i kept working to find the way to say it and felt i finally at least touched it, thanks again 😉
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ugh…i just lost a rather meaty comment…ggrrrr…a lovely painting it is…a sad bit though on everything turinging touristy…of course i would love to see so i am just as bad…chuckled a bit at being caught watching people…i would know nothing of that…smiles…all the lovely flowers…
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all your comments always greatly appreciated brian, meaty or otherwise 😉
more importantly, HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!! 😉
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thank you sir….hope you are having a great week…on vacation with the fam here in branson and having a blast….
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