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

The Boys' Camp - The Camp Series

The first poem in my 'Camp Series' of poems about my time at Camp Hostýn in Canada in 1961 & 1962.  I wrote 6 poems in 2006, another 9 in 2010 and 6 in September of this year.  I think I will write 4 more to bring the total to 25.  I have written them in third person, the adult me looking back at me the child.  My very 1st poems (in Czech) were actually 'published' in the camp pamphlets and were included in the 1979  Camp Hostýn booklet.

THE BOYS’ CAMP

 

Through the woods

The air – scented

A subtle hint of pine

Tents on platforms

Circling where trees

Had faced slaughter

Smoldering ashes

Remnants of the

Sacrificial fire

At the center point

© Alice Vedral Rivera - 2006

Camp Hostýn in 1979