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Constance Spry, by Mary Lincoln

7/18/2020

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Picture
Constance Spry, by Eileen Cooper (UK) 2015. Click image for artist site.
Constance Spry
stem
hands
many petaled crown
strength
between
bold
  outlines>
skin
flower
sharing
hue
with
fragrant space
<eyes
gaze
not
at
held bloom
but
in reflection
on
that
encounter
when
love
halting
perennial ascent
sought
a life
to seal
a
  bond>
as
love
fades
beauty present
and
remembered
make
breath
falter
<solitary
girl
single
rose
solace
in
i
s
o
l
a
t
i
o
n
Mary Lincoln

Alongside her career as a performer and playwright, Mary Lincoln has always written poetry.  She has recently completed a short course in poetic form at Goldsmiths University (London) during which she was introduced to the Ekphrastic

1 Comment
Christina Thomas
7/18/2020 01:03:33 pm

The carefully and delicately-crafted words reflect almost line by line the flow if the artist's drawing.....
An elegant response in literary form to the artist's creativity.

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