The Art of Craft

 

Take techniques and wonder at colour

Feel the symbols affect you that are hidden

Fly with flowers and breathe with fairies

Deft and dynamic be active and skilled

Hands are at the heart of creating

From sweets to gloves

Dress friends and give greetings

Grow in yourself and your place in the world

Just hanging tapestries; wearing jewellery

Fulfilled we can help others

Teaching, on-looking and imagining

Sail with your heart

See with the inner eye

Catch the light

Be beautiful in everything that you hold

Making life prettier

Making people happier

Making things for yourself

Point the way, Home Sweet Home, Raise a glass

Pleasure from quite moments can change life forever

Relax and remember the places you’ve been to

Recall all your heart in this one piece of clay

You can be yourself

You can reach to the angels

Entertaining never boring you have achieved

As something inside us is roused from a slumber

Wonder abounds in us all and we thank you

You as you craft are changing life rapidly

All around will be different

As we see where you dream

Let light and shadow play

Showing ways

To share, to mix, to meet, to learn

Thank you arts and crafts

We have found ourselves

And we are alive.

 

The lists of aspects brought about this poem. If everyone wrote (or spoke) a nice line to do with arts and crafts and what is good about them; how we can be affected by them.

 

 

As part of Bridlington’s Arts and Music Festival 2006

Arts and Crafts Exhibition

Bridlington MIND

Poet in Residence Adrian Spendlow