Sculpture inspired poetry

Brutally blasted From the granite hillside these old stones Once naked and vulnerable Now kindly clad In Nature’s green velvet coat Where once Brightly coloured bulldozers and clanking cranes Jostled for centre stage Now an arena Of scattered fallen rocks Evidence of a battle fought and won Now we The intruders enter the arena And [...]

Great Bear Day by Jenny Melmoth The Bear swings in at seven tonnes, A little late, but heck, when you are 470 million years old what’s an hour here or there? He hovers in his slow trapeze, clears the trembling hedge, and nose uplifted chooses his position; precisely where he’ll stay. Majestic, he allows his [...]

Granite Birth by Rowena M Love for Ronald Rae Art and faith mate to make sculpture from blushing Corrennie granite. Sweaty effort of conception, rhythmic chisel, panted breath, labour’s pain soon forgotten in tonnes of stunning beauty born. Swaddled with shadows and ideologies, breastfed on dreams, each statue cries to be heard. Tweet

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Choosing a Drawing by Stewart Conn “I keep several hundred in a friend’s attic, some so depressing you couldn’t face living with them. Your best tactic is to avoid preconceptions, then choose whatever speaks most strongly to you.” In charcoal whorls, an elephant and hippo, baggy bulk conveyed by gradations of light And shade; portfolios [...]

Stone Voices – Jim Hughes These stones will shout aloud, More than pious sermons or mute mumbles of apology. Their voices cry with protest at partitioned poverty and pain. They groan with grief at solitude and loss, and from the chisel strokes of steel on stone they ring with resonance of hope and love revealed. [...]

Horse – Sheila Templeton Set free from grained granite to nuzzle roughness of ancient rock into a soft cheek resting on his own long spine, in that warm hollow where man would throw a saddle. He curves around his heart space, the same space I long for, to be held, absorbed into grey granite beating. [...]