Lisa Kelly
The Eye of the Beholder
When I awake before I put in my lenses
my grandfather’s painting looks like a Monet.
Propped up by pillows, sipping tea
I contemplate my very own masterpiece.
The flowers’ red heads
bleed into a blue-wash background.
Are they poppies, roses?
Such wonderful impressionism,
all sensuous suggestion
framed in gilded wood, hung
on my bedroom wall painted off-white
in Dulux’s ‘Timeless’.
Later, no longer myopic, I look again.
The brush strokes are a definite attempt at definition.
Yesterday’s flowers in a home-made vase
looking in need of love and light.
The wall needs a fresh coat of ‘Timeless’.
I step forward to stroke the picture’s rough paint,
my finger following my grandfather’s line,
touching his still beating art with this line.
Something I could never do to a Monet.
Page(s) 44
magazine list
- Features
- zines
- 10th Muse
- 14
- Acumen
- Agenda
- Ambit
- Angel Exhaust
- ARTEMISpoetry
- Atlas
- Blithe Spirit
- Borderlines
- Brando's hat
- Brittle Star
- Candelabrum
- Cannon's Mouth, The
- Chroma
- Coffee House, The
- Dream Catcher
- Equinox
- Erbacce
- Fabric
- Fire
- Floating Bear, The
- French Literary Review, The
- Frogmore Papers, The
- Global Tapestry
- Grosseteste Review
- Homeless Diamonds
- Interpreter's House, The
- Iota
- Journal, The
- Lamport Court
- London Magazine, The
- Magma
- Matchbox
- Matter
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Monkey Kettle
- Moodswing
- Neon Highway
- New Welsh Review
- North, The
- Oasis
- Obsessed with pipework
- Orbis
- Oxford Poetry
- Painted, spoken
- Paper, The
- Pen Pusher Magazine
- Poetry Cornwall
- Poetry London
- Poetry London (1951)
- Poetry Nation
- Poetry Review, The
- Poetry Salzburg Review
- Poetry Scotland
- Poetry Wales
- Private Tutor
- Purple Patch
- Quarto
- Rain Dog
- Reach Poetry
- Review, The
- Rialto, The
- Second Aeon
- Seventh Quarry, The
- Shearsman
- Smiths Knoll
- Smoke
- South
- Staple
- Strange Faeces
- Tabla Book of New Verse, The
- Thumbscrew
- Tolling Elves
- Ugly Tree, The
- Weyfarers
- Wolf, The
- Yellow Crane, The