Poems

Leon Dabo, Silver Light, Hudson River, 1911 Your life is your lifeDon’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.Be on...

Ancient Egyptian Socks, c 250-420 AD Maru Mori brought mea pairof sockswhich she knitted herselfwith her sheepherder’s hands,two socks as...

Eugen Felix Prosper Bracht , Gathering Storm The whole sky stumbled on a cloud,And tumbled like a temple dome.Then like...

Salvatore Fergola, A View of Naples from Posillipo, c 1840 It is of you, divine enchantress, I am thinking, Myrto,Burning...

1930's colour pallet What is pink? a rose is pinkBy the fountain's brink.What is red? a poppy's redIn its barley...

Franklin Carmichael, Autumn Hillside, 1920 It was my thirtieth year to heavenWoke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour woodAnd...

Joaquín Sorolla, Boys in the sea, 1908 The sea is a wilderness of waves,A desert of water.We dip and dive,Rise...

William Merritt Chase, The Old Road to the Sea, 1893 We don’t know if tomorrow has green pasturesin mind for...

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, The Solitude, 1866 There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There...

Paul Klee, Girl with Doll, 1930 At sixI lived in a graveyard full of dolls,avoiding myself,my body, the suspectin its...