Fire Art

After yesterday's misadventure, I decided to share something upbeat.  This poem, "Fire Art", was inspired by the awesome work of Dale Chihuly.  I was first introduced to Chihuly in 2002 when he exhibited his art at the Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago.  After seeing it with my husband, I was so taken by the beauty of his pieces that I then took family members who were visiting from the Czech Republic to see it.  That was not enough and I persuaded someone I worked with to come so I could experience the joy a third time. In 2011, while visiting my son & his family in Seattle, I persuaded them to take me to the museum so I could revel in his magical world of glass once again.

photo taken from the Chihuly web page

Fire Art

Glowing colors in

Free flowing glass

Emanate strength

Fragility

Asymmetrical

Architecture

Large images

Strange unique grace

Insightful designs

Delightful art

My heart – my soul

Engage in awe

© Alice Vedral Rivera – 8/26/12

Inspired by the glass art of Dale Chihuly

English/Czech - Purification/Očištění

The 5th and last ekphrastic poem in the series of poems inspired by the abstract art of Ivan Pavlíček:

Purification

original art by Ivan Pavlíček

Flames engulf

Our hearts in

Blazing bright

Red intense

Crimson shades

Of scarlet

Desire

The fire

Burns and turns

Scar tissue

Into hot

Embers of

Pure love mixed

With passion

© Alice Vedral Rivera – 1/24/2013   2:00pm

Poslední  v sérii ekfrastických básní inspirovaných abstraktní malbou Ivana Pavlíčka:

Očištění

Plameny zachvátí

naše srdce ve zářícím ohni

ostře červené tóny karmínové

a šarlatové touhy

Oheň pálí

a mění naše jizvy

v žhavý uhel uhnětený 
z čisté lásky a vášně

© Alice Vedral Rivera

English/Czech - Red in Gray and Black/Rudá v šedém a černém

As promised to my Czech family and friends, today's post is in English and Czech.  Poems inspired by the abstract art of Ivan Pavlíček.

Pro všechny moje české přátelé - byla bych moc ráda kdyby jste nechali komentář.

Red in Gray and Black

Original Artwork © Ivan Pavlíček

My flaming passion

Smeared by absence

Blurred in gray and black

Longing – aching

To once again burn

Brightly in the

Presence of your red

Hot desire

© Alice Vedral Rivera – 9/18/12 cz 5:45pm

Rudá v šedém a černém

Má vášeň plamenná

nepřítomností rozmazaná

Rozostřená v šedém a černém stesku
Bolestně touží hořet zase jasně

v přítomnosti tvé žhavě rudé touhy

© Alice Vedral Rivera 2012