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Pete_W
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Scotland (UK)

0 posted 2016-05-08 08:44 PM


Temporary

A tapered cube,
white slip-wash glaze,
patterned on all faces,
door halfway up,
above the threshold ledge,
my cliff dwelling,
desert fired, precarious
and, where others shattered theirs,
we were destructive thugs,
brought it home from school
to rest upon the mantelpiece.
Now the pot,
gifted years ago,
has momentarily returned,
I am surprised,
I cannot say it’s truly mine,
...nothing is,
we only borrow,
everything moves on.

December 2015



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JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA
1 posted 2016-05-09 09:52 PM


I suppose so, in one form or another...james
Ari Squire
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Posts 488
In The Phallus Lane
2 posted 2016-07-12 12:08 PM


I can't relate to a "tapered cube" just now Pete, but if I smoke a little more of this stuff, I think I'll come around to it.

Loving Linny Jean is poetry.

Cari
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Posts 411
Englnand
3 posted 2016-07-12 10:42 AM


Think we have a poem on schoolboy pottery or maybe a schoolboys’ first attempt at the art. The potters’ wheel proved to be a disaster for me, most of my attempts finished on the floor ‘You have fingers with the touch of a bunch of bananas’ sighed Miss Adams.

I was proud of the toasting fork that took me almost a term to make ‘Oh that’s so good darling. It could be very useful if the toaster should ever break down’ my mother said with a twinkle in her eye.

Hope you got better praise with your first attempts than I did Pete.

Cari.

Redstart
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since 2014-05-16
Posts 535

4 posted 2016-07-12 05:15 PM


Reminds me of the owl I made, and I gave to my mum. It was weird in shape too, but it was somewhat like an owl. Got it back when I emptied her house. Thanks.
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