Poetry Corner: In the Gallery

POETRY CORNER

– 3/30/16

Scenic Drive Gallery – Susan Dobay studio

Pat Geyer

smiling at photos
of beach bound sea works…
drifting in
the gallery digging up
the humor in nature

Pat Geyer lives in East Brunswick, NJ, USA. Being from NJ, the beach is a special place to her. She says “It’s a world my camera appreciates. I smile when I meet someone else who feels the same.”

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Stick figure installation, driftwood and found objects on site (Santa Barbara, Arroyo Burro Beach) by Kathabela Wilson.

Gerry Jacoboson

falling
for that dancing girl
all painted up
on the wall of a cave
for twenty thousand years

Gerry Jacoboson is a poet and dancer in Canberra, Australia. I asked him what inspired this and he said “where I fell in love was in the Kimberleys, probably the world’s greatest art gallery, remote and little known even today. There are two generations of rock art, the Wandjina which present day Aboriginal people honour and touch up as best they can, and the older Gwion-Gwion or Bradshaw paintings, of an earlier people. It was a lady of this earlier culture that I fell for. A stick figure, she expressed the joy of the dance that you and I both know.”

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Interlude – Oil on linen by Michele L. Harvey.

Pris Campbell

my first Redon
holds me until closing time
the ecstasy
still intertwined with you
over the years

Pris Campbell lives in the Greater West Palm Beach, Forida. She says “I saw my first Redon painting in the seventies at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. I was overcome by the beauty of the painting and simply couldn’t walk away, Odilon Redon was a French symbolist painter who had a major influence on Picasso.”

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Moon – Oil on linen by Michele L. Harvey.

Michele L. Harvey

night of stars
I stroll out beyond the lights
of the gallery
where the weight of artifice
outshines the art

Michele L. Harvey lives in New York, half time in the city, half time in the country. Drawn by the beauty of the natural world, she is sensitive to the artifice often found in the professional art world. As an artist herself, she feels the need to step outside into the fresh night air.

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