Lady in Blue
Acrylic on board 12" x 24"
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(dedicated to Billie Holiday)
‘For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.’ (Chistopher Smart)
Our Lady,
Art in Heaven,
feasts on
a bed of petals,
croons over
the Angel Gabriel’s
String Orchestra,
floats on beauty’s scales.
Swollen with scent,
her skin is so pure,
alabaster smooth.
Such long stamens,
such eye lashes:
such cascading, flowering hair:
this Lily,
perennial
of the flowing Valley,
voices fragrance,
voices
the driven snow.
KEITH ARMSTRONG
from ‘The Darkness Seeping’ : The Chantry Chapel of Prior Rowland Leschman in Hexham Abbey. Poems by Keith Armstrong with drawings by Kathleen Sisterson.
