Wednesday 27 February 2013

I am a Poet

NOT!

I had a photo of myself in Paris, the Eiffel Tower in background. There was no story as such, I was just enjoying the early morning quietness of Paris, laughing at something when someone snapped this photo.

I quite like the photo though the Tower is trying to steal the limelight. So I came up with this.  (Apologies if you've already read it on my other haunting ground, Sarah's Cards.)

steel tower
a golden dome
grand avenues
& long boulevards
an obsession with symmetry
EVERYTHING MEETS & INTERCEPT
glass PYRAMID
more conventional
BRICKS & STONES
too,
NO LESS GRAND !
 
So that was my attempt at poetry and my attempt at art follows.
 
 
I never learned to write poems at school so please excuse me if I have made some fundamental error in words not rhyming or not having the correct number of syllables etc. But I think grammatically incorrect is allowed because it is art after all!

4 comments:

Sian said...

I like it: It has a very "left bank" feel to it :) That's a great photo too. Cool.

Scrappi Sandi said...

I love your use of all the different alpha's & yes! it is a lovely photo!! :D

alexa said...

I love this, Ifa, and your lines of poetry really look good with all those different lettering types. It has a wonderful casual student-in-Paris feel!

Chrissy said...


Hi Ifa,

I love this layout, fabulous use of all the lettering, brilliant.

Chrissy xXx