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Sadelite
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since 2003-10-11

Posts 2519

0 posted 2004-05-21 03:12 PM

Scuffle down the precipitous hill
In dew dropped morn of moistures fill;
There, view the artist who seeks  to borrow
  from  earthen bank its humble till

      Walk  bumpily among the fossils
     As  leaflets prance their shadow dance;
     Then reach for the wall of brown
     where orange roots go straggling down.

    Sliding palm against cool drip earth,
   grit  amongst  imperfect clay birth;
    gray  waits patient  the scraping,
     to become rich media for hungry artist banking.

  hands to shape, goosh, squeeze
into any form we choose
  decisions in the making...

[This message has been edited by Sadelite (05-23-2004 10:04 PM).]

muted

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since 2004-01-15

Posts 2949
Elapsing, Eclipsing, Evolving

1 posted 2004-05-21 03:18 PM

i love working with clay, it is an exhilirating and sensual experience...so much to be discovered in such a modest medium.

i enjoyed this

Sadelite
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since 2003-10-11

Posts 2519

2 posted 2004-05-21 03:38 PM

muted,
I've had a tad experience with it,but my creations weren't much! Once I processed it from our creek; that in itself is an experience! I'm much better at finding it than working it!
Enjoyed your response.
sadie

JL
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since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

3 posted 2004-05-21 04:48 PM

"hands to shape, goosh, squeeze
into any form we choose
decisions for the making"

Wonderful write.

JL

Potter’s Hand
“But now O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay and thou our potter;
and we are all the work of thy hand.” ~Isaiah 64:8

She said: ”You look cute in the dark.”

Endlessecho
Member

since 2003-09-05

Posts 398
I live within myself

4 posted 2004-05-21 04:49 PM

Oh! I so want to try this.

Wonderful images.

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

5 posted 2004-05-23 02:32 AM

Nice one, Sadie! Evoked images of sliding down the creek bank.

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

6 posted 2004-05-23 05:21 AM

enjoyed this!

RobertB
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since 1999-09-26

Posts 1104
Champaign, IL

7 posted 2004-05-23 07:19 AM

I could see the images in this....like I was there with you.

NewEnglandlazurlu
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-01-04

Posts 7470
A Mountain Paradise

8 posted 2004-05-23 08:33 AM

Very, very descriptive and I enjoyed this. I have never worked with clay but your poem makes it sound intriguing.

Hugs, Marti

If you truly love Nature, you will find
beauty everywhere.
~Vincent Van Gogh ~

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

9 posted 2004-05-23 08:36 AM

The clay of my youth
was not the master's clay
and it is an art form
yet tried by
these hands...

but I certainly appreciated the goosh
of this.

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

10 posted 2004-05-24 12:40 PM

This brings back so many memories of a creek and a bunch of cousins... though I'm afraid our artistic endeavors weren't appreciated by the parents when their exhausted mud-kids dragged home... in fact... we were often thrown in water troughs or a nearby pond... just so they could sort us out? LOL

Thank you for both the excellent poem and the memory trip. *S*

Margherita
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since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

11 posted 2004-05-24 12:41 PM

Sadie, you have described this so vividly, that you plant the desire in the reader to work with clay.
Whatever takes form through our hands grants great emotion.
Love, Margherita

Sadelite
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since 2003-10-11

Posts 2519

12 posted 2004-05-24 04:23 PM

Thanks to everyone for taking this journey down to our creek. It is my favorite place on earth.

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