Rainy Day
by Rory Siegel
Title
Rainy Day
Artist
Rory Siegel
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near
your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose
or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing
(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
e.e. cummings
TOP FINISHER in the Abstract Image Contest, December 2012.
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November 28th, 2012
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Comments (17)
Rory Sagner
Those glimpses, the microcosm in the macrocosm, are some of my very favorites! Thank you so much Jack...you expressed my feelings exactly!
Jack Zulli
I am enjoying this work; it's refreshing to see art in the everyday glimpses which are most often simply overlooked, yet right there in front of us. Well done!
Rory Sagner
Dear Lenore, so glad you like this! It's not everyone's cup of tea...the photo abstracts, but I do love them. Thank you so much!!!
Rory Sagner
Thank you Nadine and Bob for your kindness in featuring "Rainy Day" in the USA Artist News Group!
Rory Sagner
Hi Krista! Thank you very much for the honor of featuring "Rainy Day" in the Best Artwork Collections Group. It is a great group and the feature is greatly appreciated!
Rory Sagner
Thank you very much Sharon for featuring "Rainy Day" in the Women Artist Group! It's a sweet honor!
Rory Sagner
I hope you two amazing ladies saw that this is a poem by e.e. cummings, lol? As much as I love to write and wish I had written this...I didn't. It is however one of my favorite poems by him and for me it fit the mood of my photo. I don't know how to get spaces to show up in the description area when it translates over to the activity stream, sighhhh. Thank you for the lovely comments about the photo!
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