Today is poetry party at Abbey of the Arts, and as usual Christine has provided an image and an idea as inspiration. The image is below, and the idea is “Illuminated from within”.
I had trouble with this one! The first connections that came to me were of beautiful illuminated medieval manuscripts, but try as I might, they refused to be wrestled into any kind of poem.
In the end I used the images of spring that are all around us (in this part of the world anyway) and in Christine’s image, and I’ve called the poem Luminous. I’ve used a form Christine taught us, a pantoum.
Each season has its own light,
distinctive and right for its time.
The year’s wheel spins to reveal
Spring’s colours, lit from within.Distinctive and right for its time,
intensity shocks the senses.
Spring’s colours, lit from within,
impossible yellow and green.Intensity shocks the senses,
the year’s wheel spins to reveal
impossible yellow and green.
Each season has its own light.
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Abbey of the Arts 04.14.08 at 9:43 pm
Thanks so much for your contribution Tess, I love that you used the Pantoum form! It works so well with the image of the year’s wheel turning, coming right back to the beginning. Marvelous!
And as for illuminated manuscripts, come back Wednesday for the Abbey Bookshelf!
Wren 04.17.08 at 1:28 am
Ha! I read your poem at Abbey of the Arts and came here to say how much I admired it, and to ask was it a pantoum? If I’d come here first, I’d already have known the answer. Now I’m just showing off.
Tess 04.18.08 at 9:10 am
Thanks Christine.
Wren, you show off all you like – and have a pat on the back for being clever!