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Flower In A Thorn Tree (Inspired by paintings of Graham Sutherland)

Posted by well-wisher on August 2, 2011 - 12:22
from the ABC set Poems

Let us join hands, we five
and sing a roundel of purple;
purple that pricks with beauty
against the thorny grimness
of a stone shattered world.

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Highhat | August 3, 2011 - 06:51

I liked this and when I looked him up and saw these incredible paintings I thought your words suited his style very well. I hope you don't mind me including a link to some of his works? Maybe others would like to see a few of his paintings?
especially like your "stone shattered world" and the shades of purple that are repeated. Captured really well in my opinion.

http://found0bjects.blogspot.com/2011/02/graham-sutherland-1903-80.html

atb
;)Pia

well-wisher | August 3, 2011 - 15:51

Thanks, Pia. He uses the thorn tree to represent a harsh modern world but, when I looked deeper into thorn trees I discovered that they had flowers and so I thought that, perhaps, it was possible to be
a flower amidst this modern world.

JoHn

Highhat | August 3, 2011 - 16:04

There are lots of flowers in the modern world I think. You can also always look to nature can't you?

;)Pia