Poem 16 “What Can You Do with Formless?”

What Can You Do with Formless?”  by Mandy Austin Cook

what do you do with formless?
you find a clean canvas
knowledgeable hands caressing clay
with a love that an artist can understand.
it’s a beautiful work
molding clay
forming earth into a shape that is recognizable.
your own image stamps it
that would happen naturally as you work
because the clay takes a while
to warm in the hands,
to find its response.
it takes its own shape in time
into the delicate detail of the world
soft supple earth
rough ridges of tree bark
delicately paintbrush- touched drops
of leafy dewey green……..
what an intricate personal work that is
the Artist and the clay.
what a beautiful thing – to look around at nature and say
what can you possibly do with formless?

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