Have you been reading 'Drawing on the Right side of the brain' Grasshopper?
it is inspiring, and the poem works well when it is focussed on the fruit -
you can almost smell them, especially the bruised pear.
I think the poem might address these metaphysical specualtions from a
slighly less teacherish mode if you cut out 'considering....'and stuck to
the imagery either siede - and kept the gateway to Eden - bliss
P-P
>From: grasshopper <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: New Sub:Drawing from Life
>Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 08:02:04 -0000
>
>--
> Drawing from Life
>
>Two apples and a peach. The bruised pear
>I replaced in the slick Tesco bag,
>and the chequered tablecloth I folded
>neatly along its pattern.
> So the fruit
>sits on the polished wood, reflecting.
>I have pinned a new sheet of paper
>to my board with due tautness
>and determination. Now I look
> with proper eyes.
>See the colours and curves and the lines
>which do not exist. Let the point
>of the pencil trace out their relationships,
>balance them perfectly in the space
>allotted;
> considering, as I think, that one side
>of my brain says that this peach is simply
>a peach, like any other peach, categorises
>and dismisses peach,
> and the other side
>sees this peach with special grace
>so deep and unique that I could lose
>myself in peach for hours
> while somewhere
>else an urgent hand counts time
>like a Dickensian clock,upright
>and bewhiskered.
> As I forget to think,
>only feel the shapes and hues,
>the luscious greens and yellows
>blushing into scarlet and vermilion
>stripes like the tulips I held years ago,
>soot-black pollen on my fingers,
>taste of butter on my tongue,
>the gold and apricot velvet arcing
>against a dim blue plane of wall.
>
>These are only three fruit, says reason,
>set out on a board, but intuition
>rolls them out like little worlds
>and opens wide the gates of Eden.
>
> grasshopper
Perpetua Pullman
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