Seren

Oct 28, 2009 ⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)

Green to Glass

Cleaning the green
that lines the mold
making it smoother
and softer to hold

Painting a flower
purple and blue,
shaping the leaves
veins running through

The curve of a stem
started to form
and fibrils of petals
sway to a storm

Painting the glaze
the image fogs fast,
making a vase
in time to be passed

And finally on
the bottom side,
I sign my name
and date the time

— Seren, Oct 28, 2009

About This Poem

About the Author

Region, Country: Beyond the Black Stump..Australia, AUS

Favorite Poets: Pablo Neruda, P.K.Page, W.H.Auden, to many and various to include them all ...

Critiques

seabhac

16 years 7 months ago

Ah was drawn in by the title

Wasn't too sure what to expect with the title and also with some of your recent writes. I recognised instantly the lovely abstract, almost dreamy portrait of the ceramicist. The words used as simple and direct nothing magical in the individual words but somehow they capture more than a craft, they capture a mood, a confidence when put in this soft even rhythm. I didn't expect to taken in by this one but somehow I have. Well done Jayne. Many Hugs Seabhac

Seren

16 years 7 months ago

Dearest Seabhac

Something thats not widely known about me is I make ceramics lol though at the moment I havent done anything for a while but when things are better I plan to dabble again thanks for seeing that in this one love and hugs Jayne x x x

Kailashana

16 years 7 months ago

You are so exquisite my

You are so exquisite my jhaugter at your potter's wheel... I can't help but hear an unchained melody... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUmWudcBg2w I would write the end word *tide* instead of *time*.... I love you so, Jayne... Ma "...when it agrees with reason and it will benefit one and all, then accept it and live by it." ~ Buddha

Seren

16 years 7 months ago

Dearest Ma

I am so glad you liked this one ... it was so simple that I thought that it just might work ... and that is exactly how I make my art ... now one art is another LOL cool eh ? I cant do it but I can dream it for the time being lol love you too Ma more than you know you got your package yet ?? LOL cannot wait till you get it love and hugs Jaughter x x Btw edit I forgot to say wee bit tired its 3am lol ... I love unchained melody have that song in my media player ... and that movie is hot lol

Electric Blue

16 years 7 months ago

Grass to Green

Jayne How very droll my friend But very apt Ha! I love the picture it is me in my secret grotto but not much light gets in to disturb my Blues and Greens. As an artist I can see the flower before you this living colour with life flowing through it veins so fine as it awakens and opens to its full beauty before you create the image onto you fine green glaze vase. Beautiful always Electric Blue

Seren

16 years 7 months ago

Dearest Magz

I am glad you could see what I was trying to portray ... thank you as always for your kind comments .. you take care huni (huggles) and love Jayne x x x

Candlewitch

16 years 7 months ago

=0)

Dearest Jayne, does the title refer to "greenware?" I loved this simple write. These are the lines that made it for me: Painting the glaze the image fogs fast, making a vase in time to be passed And finally on the bottom side, I sign my name and date the time Love, Cat

Seren

16 years 7 months ago

yesssssss !! it does huni

yesssssss !! it does huni ,... I always dabbled with potting as well but this one was my first love ... I knew this one was overly simple but I hoped someone might like it lol big smile (huggles) big love Jayne x x x x

ziggy

16 years 7 months ago

green to glass

enda, patrick collins. hi there mmmm this brings me back to my first ever summer job at a local pottery what a lovely art it is and this poem flows with such ease nicely put jayne

Seren

16 years 7 months ago

Dear Ziggy

It really is a wonderful art and i find it soothing, and relaxing when my children where small, I had four under five at one stage, I decided I needed to do something other than music at night to relax I took up ceramics and potting ... and never looked back though at the moment I am waiting to feel a bit better and get back to it ... love and hugs Jayne x x x

DawningDaytripper

16 years 7 months ago

And finaly on the bottom

And finaly on the bottom face I sign my name date and place Sorry I agree with Kalashana, the last ryhme was... well not ryhming. But it is only a suggestion. Really good read and lovely imagery. I Loved The curve of a stem started to form and fibrils of petals sway to a storm Julie D.D.

Seren

16 years 7 months ago

Dear Julie

Huggles I knew that last bit didnt rhyme but I just left it like that until I could get my mind round something better lol thanks for the read and the comment hun ... been tired all week havnt writen a thing lol cept editing old ones love and higgest bugs Jayne x x x

lyz

16 years 7 months ago

Been there

in that ceramic land of greenware, lol. Well written Aunty, and I enjoyed the fun in this write from the furnace in my heart, lol. Well done,love from, Nana Lyz. XX

Seren

16 years 7 months ago

Dearest Lyz

Sorry for short comment will come back later,I need to go back to bed ... glad you enjoyed this one it was just another one I thought eh cant hurt to put it on lol love and hugs Jayne x x

greeneyes

16 years 7 months ago

wow

I am always in awe of you. Your poems are amazing, and this one is just beautiful. Elizabeth

Seren

16 years 7 months ago

Dear Elizabeth

thank you so much for your kind comments ... I might go check the mirror lol I dont want to ge a swelled head ... lol love and hugs Jayne x x x

Quillsvein1

16 years 7 months ago

the

reason i always anticipate your poetry so much is that you have the decadent, ethereal flavor that is unmistakably your own:Painting the glaze/the image fogs fast/making a vase/in time to be passed.." i know i'm guilty of namedropping often, but this reminded me baudelaire's "flowers of evil" for a moment and trust me, that's a compliment! lol. a fun, excellent job once again! GB

Seren

16 years 7 months ago

Dear GB

Awwww you know I love Mr Baulelaire's poetry ... and I am not sure if I have read that poem will have to find it I am not good with title names lol ... thanks for your wonderful comment .. made my day hugs and love Jayne x x x

Nordic cloud

16 years 7 months ago

This is absolutely lovely, superbly, delicately simple

This is absolutely lovely, superbly, delicately simple in the way that the Japanese Haïku are simply stating an action, or object, so beautifully, so succinctly, I love this dear Jayne, your hand has crafted another gem for our perusal and we glow with the flow of it. Love as aye Ann of Norway.

Seren

16 years 7 months ago

My Dearest Ann

Thank you so much for your wonderful comment ... (hugs) I am sorry I am a little under the weather tonight ... am speachless unusually so for me ... but I send my love and a big hug Jayne x x

Nordic cloud

16 years 7 months ago

I will blow the weather away Jayne

I will blow it away and send you my joy on seeing things so beautiful today, where the frost had touched the spiders webs, and made of them fairy palaces and hanging hammocks among the firs, the pale grey veil over the Autumn coloured trees made a delicate beauty, the spent leaves in front hanging limply, yet also decorative in their disarray. The lake opaque glass with frozen water-lily pads and the fingers of the nearby birch twigs like fairy fingers whitened with frost crystals, doing their dance to Winter, who's gentle breezes were become icy, making our cheeks pink and our fingers grip harder in the gloves we wore. The grasses were unspeakably lovely, hanging their spent seed heads, white silhouettes against the russet of bracken and the ever present dark green-grey veiled firs and pines in the background. Yes this should cheer your heart, even though I can do nothing for your sensations of feeling under the weather dear Jayne, with love as always from Ann.