wish for bird gardens
your mind will grow feathers
float through air surprised
Another one of my postcard collaborations with the collage box Oracle. This one was done on a postcard of Monet’s “Peace Under the Lilac Bush”
I’ve been reading a book about Monet’s water lilies. He didn’t start those monumental paintings until he was in his 70s, and worked on them throughout the years of World War I, refusing to evacuate from his beloved home and gardens at Giverny. I haven’t quite reached that age yet, so I guess there’s still time for a creative endeavor or two for me as well.
linked to dVerse OLN, hosted by Bjorn
K. 
Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #1 (6/26/20): K’s latest #haiga!
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Thanks Frank! (K)
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I love painter’s obsessions, as was Inness and the Roman Campagna, and Van Gogh and his wheat-fields, or Churchill and his pond, or Gauguin and the women of Tahiti. And it seems like they only develop these things later in life, or at least, their artistic life.
Loved the collage, and the poem is so sweet.
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Thanks. I like repetition. There is always something new to see in it. Perhaps novelty wears off as you grow older.
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I love this: “your mind will grow feathers
float through air surprised”
It’s such a magical (and funny) image–it just totally delights me.
Yes, plenty of time! 😀
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Thanks Merril. It composed itself. And good advice I think!
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Yes, it is!
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I agree with Merril. If only our minds would grow feathers, we’d see things from a less arrogant and destructive perspective.
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Thanks Jane. That’s a true observation.
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🙂
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I was shocked at the things my mind allowed me to do once my heart set it free. Float in air surprised. you can swim in Monet’s lillies, water and light stillness and change. I had the chance to see a large display of them in traveling in Basel decades ago. They still silence noise inside of me just in thinking back
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Thanks Lona. When MOMA is open they have a water lily room and it’s magical. I was also luck enough to see a larger group of them in a traveling exhibit a few years ago.
We could all use more wings!
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💕🌹
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I agree with Merril and Jane 🙂 if we allow ourselves, our minds would and could understand things which remain a mystery otherwise. 💝
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Thanks. We just need to learn how to open ourselves.
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Makes me think about Emily Dickenson and ”
“Hope” is the thing with feathers ”
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42889/hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers-314
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I like that comparison. Thanks Bjorn.
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air surprised
welcomes new ideas
flights of fancy
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I do believe you are right…air can be surprised too!
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🙂
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Your afterword is inspirational, Kerfe. I wonder if Monet knew what a role model he would be at the time.
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Thanks Jade. I don’t think he thought of himself as a role model, but he was very concerned about his artistic legacy. Who ever considers themselves old? I am, but I don’t.
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