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OUR GROUP CHALLENGES
Inspired by a Poem
August 2017
"Inspired by a Poem" was the challenge suggested by Ronnie. She will start off. Note that the text of the poem (or at least part of it) will appear after the first image.
"Trees" by Ogden Nash
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree
Indeed unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all
There are certainly no billboards here. The trees are all kinds in this magnificent scarf.
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot
Almost at times the Fool.
I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
I have seen them riding seaward on the wave
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human vices wake us, and we drown.
And all the elements are in this fabulous rug. The flannel trousers bottom rolled, the peach. A triumph.
From Candide
Finale: Make Our Garden Grow
Lyrics - Richard Wilbur
You've been a fool and so have I
But come and be my wife
And let us try before we die
To make some sense of life
We're neither pure nor wise nor good
We'll do the best we know
We'll build our house and chop our wood
And make our garden grow
And make our garden grow
I thought the world was sugar cake
For so our master said
But now I'll teach my hands to bake
Our loaf of daily bread
We're neither pure nor wise nor good
We'll do the best we know
We'll build our house and chop our wood
And make our garden grow
And make our garden grow
Let dreamers dream what worlds they please
These edens can't be found
The sweetest flowers
The fairest trees
Are grown in solid ground
We're neither pure nor wise nor good
We'll do the best we know
We'll build our house and chop our wood
And make our garden grow
And make our garden grow
The "Blooming Leaf" pattern fits perfectly for the poem. And the weaving is superb. Great Claudia.
Romance Sonambulo
Fredeirico Garcia Lorca
Quoted here are the first verses in original Spanish and then in English.
Verde que te quiero verde.
Verde viento. Verdes ramas.
El barco sovre la mar
Y el caballo en la montaña.
Con la sombra en la cintura
Ella sueña en su baranda,
Verde carne, pelo verde,
Con ojos de fria plata.
Verde que te quiero verde.
Bajo la luna gitana,
Las cosas la están mirando
Y ella no puede mirarias.
Green, how I want you green.
Green wind. Green branches.
The ship out on the sea
And the horse on the mountain.
With the shade around her waist
She dreams on her balcony.
Green flesh, her hair green.
With eyes of cold silver.
Green how I want you green.
Under the gypsy moon
All thing are watching her
And she cannot see them.
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A spectacular weaving for a spectacular poem. Cotton warp and alpaca weft. Wonderful.
An Autumn Greeting - Anonymous
"Come," said the Wind to the Leaves one day.
"Come over the meadow and we will play.
Put on your dress of red and gold.
For summer is gone and the days grow cold.
Really wonderful autumn colors in this beautiful scarf. We think Carie nailed it with this one. Warp is 10/2 tencel and the weft is 16/2 bamboo.
Emily Dickenson - 986
A narrow Fellow in the Grass
Occasionally rides -
You may have met Him - did you not
His notice sudden is -
The Grass divides as with a Comb -
A spotted shaft is seen -
And then it closes at your feet
And opens further on -
He likes a Boggy Acre
A Floor too cool for Corn -
Yet when a Boy, and Barefoot -
I more than once at Noon
Have passed, I thought, a Whip lash
Unbraiding in the Sun
When stooping to secure it
It wrinkled, and was gone -
Several of Nature's People
I know, and they know me -
I feel for them a transport
Of cordiality -
But never met this Fellow
Attended, or alone
Without a tighter breathing
And Zero at the Bone
The varigated weft is Terry's handspun wool. Warp is commercial Cotton. Does it look like snake skin?
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