Poetry Friday

I have decided to take part in ‘Poetry Friday’, I don’t know whether anyone can join, it may be a closed club but what can they do?

Here is my first poem which I downloaded from the Poetry Archive, if you are interested in poetry this is a good site, it has recordings too.

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do   

Marigold by Vicki Feaver

Not the flowers men give women-

delicately scented freesias,

stiff red roses, carnations

the shades of bridemaids’ dresses,

almost sapless flowers,

drying and fading – but flowers

that wilt as soon as their stems 

are cut, leaves blackening

as if blighted by the enzymes

in our breath, rotting to a slime

we have to scour from the rims

of vases; flowers that burst

from tight, explosive buds, rayed

 

like the sun, that lit the path

up the Thracian mountain, that we wound

 

into our hair, stamped on

in ecstatic dance, that remind us

we are killers, can tear the heads

off men’s shoulders;

flowers we still bring

secretly and shamefully

into the house, stroking

our arms and breasts and legs

with their hot orange fringes,

the smell of arousal.

I’ve chosen this because I have some marigold seedlings waiting to be planted. Also because the poet talks about how women fade like flowers and I’m feeling a little faded just now. But I also like marigolds and orange, they make me think of July, the beginning of summer.D

On the Edge Exhibition part 2.

 

Moment-Sean Campbell

This is kiln fused glass, the photos don’t do the glass justice, there are layers of colour, possibly enamels. Look at the detail and you will have some idea of how much is going on.  Has anyone done tests using tin oxide between glass? Just a thought.

Sean Campbell- detail

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Will Sheakspeare - Hot cast glass

Low Tide Quins (detail) Will Shakspeare

 

 

 

 

 

 

The detail on this hot casting by Will Shakspeare shows inclusions of copper wire and dichroic glass with glass trails (they look like worm casts) where the molten glass had started to cool when being poured. This process takes a long time and the glass has to be kept hot thru each successive layer.

 

Cello-Colin Reid

 

Colin Reid-Cello (duplication of copper oxide cast)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Colin Reids work is exceptional, the photos aren’t wonderful but you can just see the suggestion of the veil running thru. the piece the second photo shows how the polished glass mirrors the image in the copper oxide casting, there are more duplications according to where you stand. You can just make out the scroll work from the neck of the violin he cast and part of the sound box. I wish I were rich I’d go to one of his workshops, oh for money!