NATASHA ANNE KELLEHER
A Poem for You
UNLOCKED UNLEASHED UNABATED
(by Natasha Anne Kelleher March 2021)
In 2019 we were living normal as can be
Then ominously came 2020
With it the deadly virus Covid 19
Lockdown commenced
Yet spirits never dented
Our creativity erupted
Bursting with new ideas
So read of some herewith
I am sure you will be pleased
Juliana Lottman spreads positivity
Painting uplifting messages
On all manner and shapes of stones
Leaving them in urban gardens
For everyone out walking to chance upon
Begging the question especially for children
Did the elusive fairies or mischievous gnomes
Leave them there for a secret message
To indelibly mark in our hearts
Renewing in us all creative sparks
Maxine Kwok adores music and beautifully plays violin
Being the conduit for heavenly inspirations
We are uplifted from lockdown’s dearth like grim
By the sound of Angels voices through strings
So deftly poignantly and emotionally played
Our inner life again is inspired to open again
Where our creativity can dance and enhance us
Yet by which nothing else it can from it be swayed
Blaise Treverton is flamboyant and colourful
Expressing this in his unique fashion designs
I am certain he loves and inspired soulfully by
Non finer world renowned Gaultier Wang and McQueen
It makes him inspirational living out his own designer dream
Isn’t it wonderful that clothes to adorn us and brighten our mood
Can make us look and feel just divine by
By a clever arrangement of cloth and seams
Niska Mathur loves art and photography
jewellery making too
Especially an image of her sister
Sitting in a beautiful yet empty art gallery
Is so poignant
Portraying the imbibing and appreciation
Of art’s creations at a time
When freedom is only within
Niska designs jewellery to adorn and signify
Our traditions and history
Diamonds to commit to a loved one
Sweet words engraved in hidden places
With promises of love for all eternity
Gold silver platinum the unbreakable symbols
As if our spirits which no-one can steal or break
Meg Hephner found joy playing the recorder
Bringing tranquillity in the ability
To use breath to sweetly make soothing tunes
As if capturing summer’s beautiful
Country birdsong calming and peace abounds
Upon hearing these soulful soothing sounds
Lesley Scoble was inspired to
Paint an emotive image of an NHS nurse
Clothed in protective garb of PPE
This inspired the flow of inner expressions
Of the tragic world wide pandemic
That left us all feeling as if we were
Drowning in an uncertain sea
Yet undeterred and unabated with time to effuse
Sliding paintbrushes across the canvas
Daring and dancing smoothing paint
Into wonderful scenes magically appearing
Through artist’s fingers where inspirations grow
Sketching a depiction of an inner landscape
From whence it hailed from…
We cannot always fathom or instinctively know
Lizzie Prescott Price loathes litter
How it destroys the environment’s
Aesthetic look and feel
Of all that should stay beautiful
But not always kept pristine
So kindly to ameliorate this blight
On Lizzie’s daily walks
She takes along her litter picker
To rid the view of all manor of discarded things
That mar the spaces we love appreciate and cherish
So once again tidied for everyone’s delight
Unhindered once again to gratefully safely
Amble quietly through dispelling any blues
Keeping our planet beautiful and for our pleasure peruse
Darren Ross made a film
Using a backdrop of a urban architecture
Depicting a tomb like psychic prison
Usually lit up by our happiness and freedom
Where we used to relax and roam without intrusion
Now it lies mostly deadly silent
Cut off we envy the outdoors
Motionless apart from water and a little flaura and fauna
Much regarded arching magnificent trees
Make us all so much more aware
Of how free they are compared to you and me
Ordered behind closed doors into isolation
Feeling never again to be free
Yet no matter how long we are sentenced
Through it many have become creatives
Swimming out of this pandemic catastrophe
The NHS helped those sick needing care and treatment
The true heroes not appreciated and paid enough by
The Ministers of the powers that be
Who seem to have no comprehension of thriving
Not this duty induced surviving
Surely they must see they can never ever repeat
Hazel Brothers likes collating a curioso
Of images and materials of all genres and textures
Ignites a blaze in her artistic virtuoso
To combine a myriad of aspects
Into a collage she mixes a piece that will transfix us
A vision of treasures to forever behold and respect
To evoke thought and break their hidden code plus
Gathering them into memory books
To inspire and remind us if feeling unsound
Creativity can drive and revive our artistic mode
Within and from it always stories will abound
Copyright Natasha Anne Kelleher March 2021
All rights reserved.
Commissioned by Kate Willoughby for her Culture Mile Imagine Project.
Natasha Anne Kelleher’s poem is also published on the Barbican Life Magazine website: https://barbicanlife.com/unlocked-unleashed-unabated/
Read more of Natasha Anne Kelleher’s work at bit.ly/EMOETRY
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