Boundless
They’re saying
there are no boundaries
between you and the stars.
between you and the mouse
scratching in your bookshelf
making a nest between Grimm’s fairy tales
and the Oxford companion to English Literature
No boundaries separating you
from your bed and your
tangled bedding
even your pillow where you
bury your head,
filled with tangles of dreams
drifting
from the dust under your bed
to the tall grasses
outside your door
to those twisting trees
of the African plains
and the math formulas
you shrugged off as unfathomable
now knowing that X equals a
feathery white bird with a bright
red chest matching the shawl
you wore when you lived in Guatamala
three centuries ago.
swimming lightly over ocean waves
as the white airy curtains
waft out side the window frame
of your wooden house
that you never lived in
but nevertheless
there they are
in that same unknown house
filling rooms with themselves
your two dead sons
talking and possibly
singing to someone
not directly to you
but to someone
you are connected to
and you know the song
because some tribal Indians
sang it to you yesterday
as you inhaled the
curling starry sky
that Van Gogh
connected you to
no beginnings and no end
just us
spinning
from rivers
and lakes
and seas
and forests, drifting
and we are the leaves
flying away with winds
taking us to the past,
the present
and the future
which we all know
is all one.
Just us
the living
and the dead
and everything else
bound and
boundless.
©Helen Webber/2008
Helen Webber Art and Design
An artist who has worked in many media, Helen Webber is known nationally for her fabric collage tapestries which have hung in over three thousand residences across the United States and abroad. Some of these tapestries have been translated into fine art prints which replicate with great accuracy the variety of textures and colors of the original pieces.Helen has most recently published CATCH A DREAMER,a book that celebrates the Rights of the Child through art and poetry.
About Me
- Helen Webber
- About Helen Webber For over thirty years, Helen Webber has created site specific art for hundreds of public and private spaces. Working with architects and designers who have specified her work, she has created her art in many different media: glass, metal, wood, clay and fabric collage tapestries. It is the tapestries that she is best known for, and it is this medium that dominates the largest body of her work. Her client list covers a broad range of companies: corporations, medical facilties, religious sites, civic and community centers, colleges and universities, hotels and cruise ships (see client list). The collection of limited edition tapestries she designed over the course of her career provides the basis for her new Giclee Tapestry Print collection. A more personal aspect in her work is expressed in her chalk and ink brayer paintings, her drawings and watercolors often combined with her poetry. Other aspects of her career involved writing and illustrating children’s books and licensing her designs for bedding, textiles and children’s crafts. The work is described as ”sweeping in movement, rich in color and above all, life affirming.”
3 comments:
Beautiful poetry, Helen! You are as creative with words as you are with paint!
Lovely!
This is a wonderful poem as I told you before!
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