THE "PLEIN AIR POET"

[Karen Scannell]

There have been reports of sporadic outbreaks of poetry on the Plein Eire Site. ..Paintings in "script"?? In an attempt to capture these fleeting bubbles of verbal creativity...here we have a home for them on our Plein Air Poetry Corner:

 

Definition: Poetry is an imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythmic language choices so as to evoke an emotional response.

 

All art forms are interlinked, painting and poetry are no exception . A painting may inspire a poet and visa-versa.

http://homepage.mac.com/mseffie/assignments/paintings&poems/tit...

If you are a  Poet", and use words as well as paint to encapsulate and enhance your plein air experience....give your poems a home here on the Discuss Page in the Plein Air Painters Poets Corner...........

 

 

          

 

 

[Liz Walsh]

Great gas! Tony - well done!

[Kevin Freeney]

Chiang Yee, master landscape painter, has a series of books called The Silent Traveller. There is one where he explores Dublin and his paintings and poems are reproduced inside. I don't have the Dublin one but I do have the one of his travels in Lakeland, presumably the Lake District. This is one of his paintings and the accompanying poem, from that book, with his own translation below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fine Afternoon, Wastwater

 

I came in haste to the lakeside,

Thankful at escaping the press of the crowd.

How pure is the night air....

Feeding my ears with the rushing stream's music.

I linger, waiting for the moon, but she never comes,

Returning, I feed my burning love for her in my dreams!

[Karen Scannell]

That's it Tony...get it out of yer system!!

[Karen Scannell]

What year is that Kevin??

[David Diaz]

Tony---on target---nary a day goes by when someone's sis, mom, great aunt, or bastard stepchild doesn't paint.

[Kevin Freeney]

1939, Karen

Karen Scannell said:

What year is that Kevin??

[Karen Scannell]

Ah Kevin..but nocturne painting is so much fun!...  :)

[Karen Scannell]

Great poem Kevin...wish I was there sounds sooo peaceful.

[Karen Scannell]

I'm cheating too a little as this was written in January. ..but I thought it should move house!

 

ODE TO THE PLEIN AIR PAINTER

 

Starting New Year, what are your goals,

as an artist who paints "En Plein Air"?

To increase you skills, pay all your bills,

and become an "Art Millionare"?

 

By January first, become fully immersed,

in what inspires us to create.

Prepare for all weather, travel "light as a feather",

and remember.....not all will be "great"!

 

Throughout the year, it becomes clear,

as the secrets to "art" are revealed.

Not a moment to rest ,  you're on a quest-

and eyes ,  continuously "peeled"....

 

For that outdoor scene, we attempt to glean

a " likeness", a "spirit", a "feel"...

a struggle, a fight, a sudden changed light-

...damn, now where's that colour wheel?

 

Then suddenly one morning, it comes without warning-

like a gambler whose dealt a "royal flush".

The "zone" you have entered, and finally "centered",

create effortlessly, "at one with the brush"!

 

So in Art don't despair - we never "get there"

as our goal is a life-long quest-

We create and perspire, bewilder, admire-

and, will always be seeking our best!!

 

[Tony Robinson]

Bravo!