ABOUT THE POETRY PAINTING PROJECT
We selected 30 poems (from the public domain) and each day for the next 30 days I will write a poem inspired by it, and Addie will paint a painting.
So, without further ado, let’s get to today’s painting and poem, inspired by Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem, Love’s Philosophy.
To read this poem, click here (or scroll down near the bottom of the page)
ADDIE’S PAINTING
MY POEM
WHY SHOULD I NOT SING?
And why should I not sing
my god’s praises?
For I have made him
with these two hands,
with chisel and mallet,
from the marble of imagination
to give me reason to suffer and live.
And why should I not listen
to his oracle,
to his words on the wind,
to his insoluble riddles?
For he has given me a voice,
sometimes sick and hoarse,
sometimes rich and roaring,
and quill and ink with which to write,
and I have penned a woman,
most perfect from my dreams,
and she has come alive.
OUR INSPIRATION
LOVE’S PHILOSOPHY
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle.
Why not I with thine?—
See the mountains kiss high heaven
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister-flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth
And the moonbeams kiss the sea:
What is all this sweet work worth
If thou kiss not me?
Notes:
Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792–1822. Born near Horsham, Sussex, England. English Romanticism.
Link to Biography: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/percy-bysshe-shelley
Link to Poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50262/loves-philosophy
ABOUT THE POETRY PAINTING PROJECT
For the past couple of months I have been working on a huge new secret project with my painter, Addie Hirshten, of Studio Alchemy
We selected 30 poems (from the public domain) and each day for the next 30 days I will write a poem inspired by it, and Addie will paint a painting.
Expect an outpouring of creative energy! This is the sort of big project that artists live for … where we can say what we yearn to say. Big picture stuff. Heart wrenching stuff. I feel so inspired by the poetry we are working with AND seeing Addie’s process as well. Expect daily surprises with our posts. Expect passion. Expect love. Expect life.
Check Out Addie’s Instagram Account: www.instagram.com/alchemy.of.art.addie.hirschten/
Check out Addie’s art studio — Studio Alchemy:
studioalchemy.art/
Great things are not done by impulse, but a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh
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