Jeannie, this poem truly resonated with me. It's like you captured that feeling of wanting to truly understand someone or something, but knowing there's always a core part that remains a mystery. We can walk around, observe, appreciate the beauty, but full comprehension remains elusive... it's both beautiful and a little bittersweet.
Hmm, I love your interpretation, Alex! Very true. I think each of us contains a core mystery to who we are, and that’s the part we are always searching for within ourselves. It’s why self-awareness is so important to me, as well as attunement. I want to enter into the becoming, knowing that I will never fully “arrive” at a destination, but that growth is the gift.
My favorite thing about this poem is the line divisions. Breaking up the verse the way you did adds something new that would not otherwise happen if this was written in prose. Very nice!
Wow, Jeannie. This is such a beautiful Ekphrastic poem! You've been able to turn the physical beauty of the artpiece into a poem that echoes that beauty, but yet finds a greater meaning. I love the entire poem, but the following really hit me. The reader wonders if the edges that have softened have to do with one's personality as time has gone on. The best poems are open to interpretation, and this one is no exception. Thank you for this.
Yes, I agree, Beth, that the best writing is open to interpretation. I wasn't sure what was going to emerge when I wrote this, but I knew I wanted to share it and allow it to mean something different to every reader.
I hope your get to see some of dale chihuly’s work / there is a small museum in St. Petersburg fl.
And as a small side light - fractals are geometric shapes which appear the same from any scale / which is if you magnify one area it will appear as the previous whole and so on ad infinitum. Similar to non repeating tiling of an infinity surface Roger Penrose and m c Escher were excellent creators of those . Penrose happens to also be a Nobel physicist and cohort with hawking
Hi Richard, yes, Dale Chihuly's work was on display when I visited the glass wing a few months ago. I need to go back and get the title of each piece, as well as the artist's name.
Jeannie, this poem truly resonated with me. It's like you captured that feeling of wanting to truly understand someone or something, but knowing there's always a core part that remains a mystery. We can walk around, observe, appreciate the beauty, but full comprehension remains elusive... it's both beautiful and a little bittersweet.
Hmm, I love your interpretation, Alex! Very true. I think each of us contains a core mystery to who we are, and that’s the part we are always searching for within ourselves. It’s why self-awareness is so important to me, as well as attunement. I want to enter into the becoming, knowing that I will never fully “arrive” at a destination, but that growth is the gift.
My favorite thing about this poem is the line divisions. Breaking up the verse the way you did adds something new that would not otherwise happen if this was written in prose. Very nice!
Thanks, Rafael!
Wow, Jeannie. This is such a beautiful Ekphrastic poem! You've been able to turn the physical beauty of the artpiece into a poem that echoes that beauty, but yet finds a greater meaning. I love the entire poem, but the following really hit me. The reader wonders if the edges that have softened have to do with one's personality as time has gone on. The best poems are open to interpretation, and this one is no exception. Thank you for this.
Stay with me
And I will show you
The edges that
Have softened with
Distance,
Space,
and time.
Yes, I agree, Beth, that the best writing is open to interpretation. I wasn't sure what was going to emerge when I wrote this, but I knew I wanted to share it and allow it to mean something different to every reader.
I hope your get to see some of dale chihuly’s work / there is a small museum in St. Petersburg fl.
And as a small side light - fractals are geometric shapes which appear the same from any scale / which is if you magnify one area it will appear as the previous whole and so on ad infinitum. Similar to non repeating tiling of an infinity surface Roger Penrose and m c Escher were excellent creators of those . Penrose happens to also be a Nobel physicist and cohort with hawking
Hi Richard, yes, Dale Chihuly's work was on display when I visited the glass wing a few months ago. I need to go back and get the title of each piece, as well as the artist's name.
Very beautiful!
Thank you, Linda!