A nosegay for my love

a posy
a spray
a bunch
a bouquet

art
of the moment
a cast-off
on the lid
of a wooden box

a throwaway
dashed off
with scant attention
to detail

an action painting
an act of love
to render a thought
or rather
a feeling

an engagement
with the medium
flowers that emerge
out of nothing

ephemeral
merely to state
that love
is the part of us
that never dies

John Lyons

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In an essay entitled, A process of painting, Robert Motherwell wrote : “A painting is not a picture of something in front of your eyes—a model, say, primarily. It is an attack on the medium which then comes to “mean” something.”