Let Me Have Both

July 5, 2023 Susa Silvermarie
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Watercolor Wood End Lighthouse
by Marilyn Greco

Watercolor Autumn Birches
by Marilyn Greco

The ekphrastic (poem prompted by visual art)  exercise was to choose a painting to write from.

 

 

 

 

Let me climb the stairs
to the beacon, the shining guide —
I long for aloneness!
Yet the Autumn birches
are calling me
to something so communal.
The forest is only alive
together.

I refuse to choose,
I claim them both.
I shall walk into the fiery family
because they love me.
And from the lighthouse,
I will gaze,
because I love to view
the world through my only eyes.

                        ©Susa Silvermarie 2023

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