TRIP TO WINDSOR CASTLE POEM 20

Adventure beckons when you look at a vista. The World is before you and life is so very large and wide expanse is there to be explored. To be inside is a time of creativity for the artist, but I have found that for me, inspiration is to be found in exploration! The next trip I took was to Bath and Salisbury. Stonehenge was a great inspiration and I endeavour to write collections for all three.

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“My father says that there is only one perfect view — the view of the sky straight over our heads, and that all these views on earth are but bungled copies of it.” E.M. Forster

Through the View

To be cloistered is to be safe,

The view is not so very wide,

As to tempt me out of my rest,

But the World is wide, I see.

Thought elevates the mind,

And to higher things one should be called,

But two minds are said to join,

And therefore brings a happy coincidence.

I have inky fingers and a keen wit,

And the purveyance of property is not

Beyond me, nor you,

And a nest for two is not so very large.

So hasten to my casement,

As all will not be lost,

And I love you in any case,

And at any cost.

She was a part of that involuntary, palpitating life, and could neither look out on it from her luxurious shelter as a mere spectator, nor hide her eyes in selfish complaining.” George Elliot