Waterlillies

by estory

This moment when life becomes
Still, this moment of small movements
Glittering like sunlight above
Stillness,

Where a flower blooms itself
Into eternity, and where eternity
Is the water beneath it, and its flowers
Are the light touching it
From above,

This stillness,
This stillness of air and of water and of light,
This moment of life in this moment of living
Glittering like sunlight above
This stillness,
Glittering

Like light above water
Gives shape to a flower,
Where the flower gives shape
To our dreams, where are dreams
Become still

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I wanted to articulate something of the experience of looking at one of Monet's waterlilly paintings with this poem. To me the waterlilly paintings capture the transcendence of life from a moment in the spring time to something eternal, something at once moving and motionless, or motionless in its moving. Here I tried to work in an effect of the small movements of Monet's brushwork in creating the details that open out into this poem of eternal beauty. estory

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