Sir John and Lady Hazel Lavery

by

Hay Machine

To look and walk where the artists walked
the words of those with whom they talked
to kiss the thoughts that they have thought
what am I bid for their palette

To pay a hundred visits to the artist's shrine
each time learning more the dreaming more sublime
intense though it might seem to be the pleasure is a sleep
filled with vivid moments studded like the star-filled deep

Over the ultimate edge of the blade which with his craft he cut
glide on the tides of feeling there binding the screws to the nut
features and fabric draped on the sitter shrouded in private gaze
taken a message from out of the heart a statement from out of the age

High is the concept of gallery the artist's church of prayer
each moment that his canvas with his painted strokes hangs there
precious in a way like time itself with loved ones spent
preserving artist's treasures there without the risk of rent

Reliving history the ageless intellect at play
a refuge in his painting and in the artist's studio
those eyes looking down the gallery aisle
doing more from their Heaven than we do

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Why don't you look at Two Hearts
by: Joyce Hemsley
from: Sunderland, England, UK

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