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Triptych in Blue, by Christa de Brún

8/4/2022

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Triptych Portrait of Vicky Phelan, by Vincent Devine (Ireland) 2021. Click image for artist site.

Triptych in Blue
   
Whirling hues of blue, darker the deeper,
life folded, poured by time’s hand 
into triptych.
Flesh and blood clothe themselves in thunder, 
guilt spills her shrouded shores, 
courser gleams in standstill. 

You sit, radiant as lava, eyes blaze dominion,
hair burnished like newly spun gold wire, 
body hollowed under siege in service of myth.
The crimson lowrie unfolds its wings,
roots branch and stretch in stilled accord, 
solace stitched through dappled bone. 

The veil grows thin, seams of light split in
shimmering hours, each moment a sacred guest.
The moon gathers her stars, folding waves 
in deep blue shadows on the azure sea,
stippled footprints in swept sand proclaim 
your hallowed spirit upon sapphire strand.

Christa de Brún

Christa de Brún is an Irish poet and academic. She was most recently published in Drawn to the Light Press, New Word Order, and anthologized in the poetry collections Addictions and Cathal Buí Selected Poems 2021. Her poetry was shortlisted for the Anthology Poetry Prize 2020, and the Roscommon Poetry Prize at the Strokestown International Festival 2020. She is currently working on her first collection.
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Kate Gordon link
8/7/2022 06:53:38 pm

Your poem shimmers like a stained glass window with blue/ green hues whispering sweet nothings into the ear of the everyday normal
Vicky’s fight for survival pirouettes offf the page the battle raging within internal organs drenching every atom of her being
and then you speak of “her spun gold hair and every moment a sacred guest “ and I’m spinning like a flat stone collected on the beach in Doolin as far as the Cliffs of Moher
Thank you for sharing your Anthem of bravery
its artistic journey through the mind body and soul of this iconic woman who has spun a web of honesty and transparency around her as she fights for her life
You captured what the artist saw in his retrial click A Pearl released from its shell and turned inside out like a reversible lace collar
❤️Breathtakingly beautiful

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Christa de Brún
8/31/2022 06:31:59 am

Kate, thank you so much for your beautiful words, they mean so much to me x

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