Pot Forgot
by RC DeWinter
Title
Pot Forgot
Artist
RC DeWinter
Medium
Painting - Digital Oils-paintography-photopainting
Description
Copyright 2015 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved
the true ivy league
out exploring
with no particular aim but solitude
i wandered through an old wood
that begins behind a house at the top of the street
it had been years since i'd been up there
nothing seemed much changed
until the wood gave out into an unfamiliar field
and suddenly i was afraid i was lost
the last time i'd been here
there had been a vibrant garden
attached to a gated estate
but now that garden was gone
i wondered if the house was too
i struck off in its direction
and sure enough all had disappeared
no fence
no greenhouse
no great palace surrounded by lions of stone
and fruit-bearing specimen trees
i continued on
to where i remembered the portico would have been
and there discovered a lone planter
home to a nothing but a disreputable collection
of untidy sprangles of motley vegetation
it was battered and beaten
the only remaining relic
of what had once been enviable grandeur
somehow forgotten
by whoever had been charged with obliterating
all evidence of the gracious life that had been lived there
how ironic but also fitting
to discover upon closer inspection
sprigs of ivy - that classic symbol of eternity -
still growing green and sturdy
despite being abandoned
in that crowded slum of a planter
proof that despite our vanities and ambitions
there is still much beyond our purview
and that long after we in our greedy hubris
have reduced our monuments to rubble
something of nature will survive
~ copyright 2015 RC deWinter
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Comments (2)
Tiberiu Soos
What a gorgeous image! l/f
RC DeWinter replied:
I'm glad you like it, thanks so much. It's not a sexy image, but some people will get it. You are one of them.
Nancy Kane Chapman
This really speaks to me. My entire home town is now practically rubble.....all the city fathers long gone, only newcomers who work at Walmart left to tend (offend) the community, the little county seat, the three stop lights of certitude I enjoyed as a child. And up on the hill I climbed, if I go far enough up, I'm told that it's a huge strip mine. Up there where we dreamed we discovered Indian mounds. Up there where you can't see the scar in the earth. Some days I'm glad I'm old. And I'm so happy I left that town almost fifty years ago.
RC DeWinter replied:
Oh, Nancy, I so empathize. A couple of months ago my cousin and I drove to see my own childhood home. That entire side of what was once an old-fashioned family neighborhood was a gravel pit...and the rest of the street was just as bad, all overdeveloped up and down the entire long length. What has been a charming, semi-rural city neighborhood, where kids could play safely, is now an ugly hodgepodge of junk buildings, industry and a welter of little side streets all built up with duplexes with no yards to speak of. TY for stopping by.
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