Divine Intervention

Conflict amid cries for peace, a house invasion of ants, and the Poets and Storytellers United prompt to "write about something deeply felt" inspired my poem below.

    

Clever enough to fly to the moon and foolish enough to bomb our own planet, I see the contradictions and feel them in myself. Hope and doubt exist side-by-side. I spare butterflies but also kill ants that invade my space. Struggles embed serene scenes. Amazing life forms consume other amazing life forms by design. We love peace yet wars roam the streets and forest floors in an ecosystem nurturing and indifferent. And when we could have done better sooner to keep the planet livable longer, many who naturally fear death refused to see a threat. While waiting for divine intervention, the divine spark of preservation is ready to ignite within the discrepancies of our lives.

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The Vancouver Art Gallery & Looking Back

Isn't it remarkable that we have an entire vocabulary and creative urges with which to express ourselves. Although existence is an integrated system where humankind must find common ground to survive, we contribute uniquely with a personal spin on things. 

 
The Vancouver Art Gallery I visited provided paper and pencils to encourage mini art projects and poetry. My poem below, written after the visit, was inspired by the Poets and Storytellers United prompt "looking back" and the multi-media displays at the gallery reflecting indigenous and like-minded holistic views from past to present.

 

I took many pictures that day but failed to photograph even a single painting by the great Canadian West Coast artist, Emily Carr, who conveyed her extraordinary enchantment with nature through luxurious, bold and motion-filled strokes.

Oddly enough, the original painting of my print copy (above) was not included in the extensive Emily Carr collection at the gallery. I learned there was a bit of a controversy about the painting's name, titled Indian Church and later changed to Church at Yuquot Village. You can read about the painting and the artist's evolving techniques HERE.

   

There was much to dazzle the senses, including this art installation by Jim Lambie described in detail HERE. Installing this work must have been a tremendous challenge.

   

Striking and thought-provoking indigenous art was featured from the gallery's permanent collection. The Pacific Coast themes of water and all nature as living entities show the profound interconnectedness of existence. My last photos at the bottom are of a beautifully rendered film of overlapping images by Sydney France Pascal called Distance which to me conveyed moods of both separation and of coming together.

   

Explore more at Poets and Storytellers United, SKYWATCH and Saturday's Critters. 

Check out my sites: Postcards from Penelope Puddle and Musings of A Puddlist In B.C.

Because the state of our planet is the most pressing issue of our time, link up and learn about the  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report and watch environmental activist, 90-year-old David Suzuki, in an interview.

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