The gift, John Lyons (70 x 40 cm, oil on canvas)
Fabulous artificer
artful dodger
visual charlatan
allusive
illusion –
shapes
out of all perspective
a remembrance
of past things
no rhyme or reason
school of primary colours
what the mind sees
in the memory
an image suffused
with chlorophyll
the gravity of perception
How the light plays
tricks of the trade
nothing new
under the sun
So let it be
a gesture of love
flowers bestowed
an artless gift
to be hung in the heart
of her home
John Lyons
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