The Farside's Face.

[Fay Slimm]

The wish of a painter or poet is to present
perceptive emotion
by noting and transposing awe at night's
vividly vaulted scene
dripping metaphor, musing on whether
wind could ever be worded
yet seeing grassland as more than green.

As an alchemist with no interest in gold
takes up better investment,
finds a thermal to soar on fancy or some
up-draught for sentencing,
poets make jasper of water, jade of dawn
and perceive jewels hiding
in every nuance of storm-coated weather.

A seer will catch the farside's face to etch
that world in letter or paint,
chimeric in nature, an artist, whose eyes
encounter rock, give it heart,
transform by description the earthly into
the ethereally mystic,
add dream to logic, clear to blur and will
improve with softness the hard.

It is said largesse opens art's mind to see
the extraordinary as normal
while good poets or painters rank magic
as foremost importance
when met with blank canvas that awaits
mundane, for dressed in
imagined invention artists expect change
if the Muse is impressed.

[Stella]

Both have a blank canvas on which to display the magic of life from which the muse will inspire beautiful imagery. A lovely write Fay, and congratulations on the publication of your new book my friend

[Fay Slimm]

Thank you dear Stella - I am looking forward to reading your new selection of poetry too. Greetings from Cornwall for the festive season and for the coming New Year.

[Stella]

A book is on it's way to you Fay, i hope you will enjoy it as much as i am enjoying your new publication.

May i send you best wishes for the coming festivities too

xx

[drllrd74]

Nice musings here Fay.

[Cindy]

Poets do tend to view things in a whole different way. Your words describe our unique way of looking at the world very well.

[Seema Chowdhury]

Wow this is so beautiful and so rightly described.