But it’s not a desolate landscape – silver shimmers with possibility and is the colour of slow moonlight on dark water, the slanted light of illumination piercing through a shadowed forest. Ideas crouch, giggling – they occasionally stick a foot out into the circle of hazy grey and admire their shiny buckled shoes, their elongated silhouettes. Mostly they play a frenzied game of tag and will stop every so often to tug my clothes and whisper in my ear. They think me a great, lumbering thing – such a human! – but clap their hands like proud parents when I correctly interpret one of their hushed communications. They also hand-on-hips scold when I get it wrong and disapproval makes me slink away for a while, but their wild games call to me from beyond the stream. I always turn my head and listen.
Can you hear them too?
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| Girl Beside A Stream, Arthur Rackham |
20 comments:
I hear them!
I hear them!!
Awww glad the Ideas are coming out in droves and eager to play with you!! Yay!!!
Take care
x
Life has clouded my ears and covered my eyes. Pragmatism surrounds me but I can see the wind blowing around this bubble. Soon it will strip away the confining layers and I too will be free to listen and dance.
Love the picture by the way.
Lovely thoughts!
So that's who they are, sometimes I see them as fairy.LOL
Sorry what did you say? I can't hear for all those whispers.
The sound of silence...... I love that.
Maggie X
Nuts in May
i like this:))
Hello! My first visit, will visit you again. Seriously, I thoroughly enjoyed your posts( really interesting blog). Would be great if you could visit also mine...Thanks for sharing! Keep up the fantastic work!
What a gorgeous picture, and beautiful words to go along with it. We miss you, Jayne!
Yes, I hear them though I see them more as images in my mind if that makes any sort of sense? That is a lovely Rackham sketch, I do love his work.
This post has really inspired me, it makes me see your words as a watercolour painting my dear Jayne. Your colour imagery is very strong, and I will print this out to put in my brand new contextual notebook if you don't mind :)
Oooh this post was filled with such lovely imagery....I adore the sound of silence.
Beautiful imagery. I love all things silvery and foggy. You make me see the dreamlike quality of thoughts slowly becoming articulated as the ideas take shape. Great writing. You could get a poem out of this post!
Such a beautiful image and imagery in this post, truly beautiful and touching and as others have said, inspirational.
Pamela - I can tell from your blog you hear them exactly like I do!
Old Kitty – Thanks honey. They are there, circling, biding their time.
S.P Bowers – I hope the wind blows away pragmatism for you soon. Arthur Rackham is one of my favourite illustrators.
Carole – Thank you.
Out on the prairie – Fairy, sprite, imps – all one and the same, I think.
Snafu – So many whispers!
Maggie – My favourite Simon and Garfunkel song.
Claudette – Thank you for letting me know.
Nelson – Thanks
Talli – Aw, thank you for saying that, I miss being here and around and about, too.
Dolly – Images in your mind works perfectly well, I know what you mean. Thank you for saying you like the colour imagery in this post, and if you do ever do a watercolour painting from it then please let me know! Be fun to see what you come up with. I am tempted to do the same, but it’s been many years since I was an artist. That thought makes me quite sad.
D.J – I’m glad you liked it.
Elizabeth – Aw, what a nice thing to say. A poem? Hm... Maybe, methinks, perhaps.
Happy Frog – That is wonderful. I am so pleased that this post provoked that sort of response. Gives me hope!
Wow. that's more than lovely. That's just so vivid and beautifully poetic. We should make a new name for it. It's wondrilous.
L.A Speedwing - Your comment made me smile so much. Thank you!
I just added your web page to my bookmarks. I enjoy reading your posts. Thank you!
Your impish ideas is nice post,The women paintings is full of art feeling.Simple design but rich of sprit
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