By Sadé Graves
Pillar of Delay / The Beauty is in the Making

Pillar of Delay by Morris Louis; image MOCA fb
We dripped from the hands of the Creator
Wonderstruck by the possibilities
Beaded there together, a bright and motley crew
The rapture of our ignorance obscured the inevitable
The uncharted plane tipped, propelling us forward
We started running, then we began to stream
We raced with the wind, the natural world was on our side
And everything became a dazzling and ineffable blur
We soon slowed to the edge of the terrain
And looked back on how far we’d come
Where we each stood alone, then flowed together,
And the moment we began to drift apart
Then, we knew
This was the end
They will marvel at the canvas
Seeing the beauty of us lying in our final resting places
All that remains of the thrill we were chasing
But the joy that was lives on in the spell past
For the beauty was in the making
Inspired by Pillar of Delay, by Morris Louis. 1961
Sadé Graves is a free lance writer and artist currently based in San Diego, California. She has a degree in Communication from North Carolina State University.
Brilliant and stirring Ekphrastic poem– enhances the painting and readers too.
Beautiful Ekphrastic poem which enhances the poem and the reader!