A Window by Chagall

For Emma's Competition

 

A Window by Chagall

 

If one day soon you tread the streets of Nice

And choose to see a plethora of art,

I pray you sir, look not toward Matisse

But take a trip to where I left my heart.

 

For though it is the other end of town,

Musée Chagall please, please don’t ever pass ;

The Côte d’Azur looks almost sere and brown

Compared with Marc’s blue windows, I confess

the concert room, a symphony in glass

makes sea nearby seem of insipid hue

yet one wall, must all other walls surpass,

A veritable Rhapsody in Blue.

 

Such cobalt rich enhancement verifies

Marc Chagall’s inspirations were the skies.

 

John L. Berry, 10 November 2008

Reviews

[R J Askew]

I like this one more than Sixth Sense but not as much as Alfresco. I know Nice, but have not made it to either see either artist as yet. However, I like the sheer enthusiasm you capture in this poem following your positive response to the beauty of the art work. I think, as you say, we need to see the window. Reading this poem makes me that that next time I get to Nice I will seek it out. I like the way you differentiate between sea and sky also. I can't work out the rationale of the 4-8-2 pattern. What I do note is the progress from the first line's tread/streets and the final line's inspirations/skies as the poem soars in response to the art.

[Patient Poet (Yos)]

That is so beautiful . I can feel your knowledge in art and how you love it :-) .... Thank you, you always make me think

Shalom Yossi

[J]

Oh! Oh! YES! Dear God, I was in Nice, but only overnight and arrived in the dark ........ Chagall was an artist who truly understood the passion of colour....... and I see you agree. And blue ....... sigh.

Thank you for this send!!! A fave!
j

[emmajoy]

This is a wonderfully real poem .. and yes, yes, you're so correct, the window's beautiful, as is your writing,
John.

Thank you, thank you for reminding me of Chagall'ss exquisite colours and light and .. so much more.

Also, thank you for submitting this post to you-know-where .. good man! :-)

[Fabian G. Franklin]

I appreciate your good taste in art, beauty is what we enjoy where we enjoy it. love the first verse

[Emily Elizabeth]

That window is beautiful, I can see why you chose to write about it, you really have good taste in art! A beautiful, flowing, rather reflective poem. Its a very lovely poem. Your poems are really nice and uplifting, as well as intelligent.