Clay Upon The Wheel* Poem by Terence George Craddock (Spectral Images and Images Of Light)

The poet, like the potter,
takes the raw clay of thoughts
and shapes them
through the mind of his loving you.

The beauty of these fragments
without having to expend the energy
to try to express
the image envisioned.

Through the medium
of paper or clay
for personal solitaire,
or the benevolence of other eyes.

Each colour and weave
their thoughts in different patterns
seeing different visions
momentarily lost in their multiple meanings.

At the outset is vision
our struggles to seize or translate it
sully the brightness
in giving it flesh, the vision is muddied, lost.


Copyright © Terence George Craddock