Poetry Transcends Description
Monday, September 22, 2008
This is just a tree stump sheened with moss, but when I saw it (in a Vancouver park) I thought bear. The deep, but narrow eyes. The truncated nose. The mountainly stretches of cheek.
Still and only a tree bear unless I can animate him in a poem.
8 comments:
I've been looking for a picture for this three picture frame I have, and now I've found it! Can I snag and print this? It will work perfectly - colors and everything.
He's yours! Tell me what goes on either side?
This makes me think of a kid's book, some sort of woodland fairy tale. :-)
Wow. I LOVE this stump, and you're right -- it looks like a bear. I advise a creative writing club at the high school in my spare time, and one of our favorite exercises is to take a piece of art -- a photograph, a painting -- and write a poem or short story inspired by it. This would be a good subject.
This is wild. It totally looks like a bear. I hope this picture gives you some great inspiration.
I'm thinking we should write a collective story, along em's lines—a woodland fairy tale....
All our voices, gathered as one.
I'll post them tomorrow on my blog!
Oh, lets! I wouldn't even know how to begin a collective story but it sounds like fun. And the bird definitely fits in somewhere. A trickster type? Or would he bring the bear stump news from the forest?
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