{"id":5963,"date":"2021-06-02T14:26:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T14:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.katewilloughby.co.uk\/?page_id=5963"},"modified":"2021-09-08T14:03:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T14:03:40","slug":"natasha-anne-kelleher","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.katewilloughby.co.uk\/?page_id=5963","title":{"rendered":"NATASHA ANNE KELLEHER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Poem for You<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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What\u2019s inspired YOU during Lockdown \u2013 collage image by Kate Willoughby. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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UNLOCKED UNLEASHED UNABATED<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(by Natasha Anne Kelleher March 2021)<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Natasha Anne Kelleher (photo by Kate Willoughby, @KateWilloughby8<\/a>)<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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In 2019 we were living normal as can be<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then ominously came 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With it the deadly virus Covid 19<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lockdown commenced<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet spirits never dented<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our creativity erupted<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bursting with new ideas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So read of some herewith<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am sure you will be pleased<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Juliana Lottman<\/strong> spreads positivity<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Painting uplifting messages<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On all manner and shapes of stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leaving them in urban gardens<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For everyone out walking to chance upon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Begging the question especially for children<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did the elusive fairies or mischievous gnomes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leave them there for a secret message<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To indelibly mark in our hearts<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Renewing in us all creative sparks<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maxine Kwok<\/strong> adores music and beautifully plays violin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being the conduit for heavenly inspirations<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are uplifted from lockdown\u2019s dearth like grim<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the sound of Angels voices through strings<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So deftly poignantly and emotionally played<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our inner life again is inspired to open again<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where our creativity can dance and enhance us<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet by which nothing else it can from it be swayed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Blaise Treverton<\/strong> is flamboyant and colourful<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Expressing this in his unique fashion designs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am certain he loves and inspired soulfully by<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Non finer world renowned Gaultier Wang and McQueen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It makes him inspirational living out his own designer dream<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isn\u2019t it wonderful that clothes to adorn us and brighten our mood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can make us look and feel just divine by<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By a clever arrangement of cloth and seams<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Niska Mathur<\/strong> loves art and photography<\/p>\n\n\n\n

jewellery making too<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Especially an image of her sister<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sitting in a beautiful yet empty art gallery<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is so poignant<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Portraying the imbibing and appreciation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of art\u2019s creations at a time<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When freedom is only within<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Niska designs jewellery to adorn and signify<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our traditions and history<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diamonds to commit to a loved one<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sweet words engraved in hidden places<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With promises of love for all eternity<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gold silver platinum the unbreakable symbols<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As if our spirits which no-one can steal or break<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meg Hephner<\/strong> found joy playing the recorder<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bringing tranquillity in the ability<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To use breath to sweetly make soothing tunes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As if capturing summer\u2019s beautiful<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country birdsong calming and peace abounds<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upon hearing these soulful soothing sounds<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lesley Scoble<\/strong>\u00a0was inspired to<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paint an emotive image of an NHS nurse<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clothed in protective garb of PPE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This inspired the flow of inner expressions<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of the tragic world wide pandemic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That left us all feeling as if we were<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drowning in an uncertain sea<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet undeterred and unabated with time to effuse<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sliding paintbrushes across the canvas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daring and dancing smoothing paint<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Into wonderful scenes magically appearing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through artist\u2019s fingers where inspirations grow<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sketching a depiction of an inner landscape<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From whence it hailed from\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We cannot always fathom or instinctively know<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lizzie Prescott Price<\/strong> loathes litter<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How it destroys the environment\u2019s<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aesthetic look and feel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of all that should stay beautiful<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But not always kept pristine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So kindly to ameliorate this blight<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Lizzie\u2019s daily walks<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She takes along her litter picker<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To rid the view of all manor of discarded things<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That mar the spaces we love appreciate and cherish<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So once again tidied for everyone\u2019s delight<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unhindered once again to gratefully safely<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amble quietly through dispelling any blues<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keeping our planet beautiful and for our pleasure peruse<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Darren Ross<\/strong> made a film<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using a backdrop of a urban architecture<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depicting a tomb like psychic prison<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Usually lit up by our happiness and freedom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where we used to relax and roam without intrusion<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now it lies mostly deadly silent<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cut off we envy the outdoors<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Motionless apart from water and a little flaura and fauna<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much regarded arching magnificent trees<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Make us all so much more aware<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of how free they are compared to you and me<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordered behind closed doors into isolation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feeling never again to be free<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet no matter how long we are sentenced<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through it many have become creatives<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Swimming out of this pandemic catastrophe<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NHS helped those sick needing care and treatment<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The true heroes not appreciated and paid enough by<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ministers of the powers that be<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who seem to have no comprehension of thriving<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not this duty induced surviving<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surely they must see they can never ever repeat<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hazel Brothers<\/strong>\u00a0likes collating a curioso<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of images and materials of all genres and textures<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ignites a blaze in her artistic virtuoso<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To combine a myriad of aspects<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Into a collage she mixes a piece that will transfix us<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A vision of treasures to forever behold and respect<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To evoke thought and break their hidden code plus<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gathering them into memory books<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To inspire and remind us if feeling unsound<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creativity can drive and revive our artistic mode<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within and from it always stories will abound<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copyright Natasha Anne Kelleher March 2021<\/em>
All rights reserved<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commissioned by Kate Willoughby<\/strong> for her Culture Mile<\/a><\/strong> Imagine Project<\/strong>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Natasha Anne Kelleher’s poem is also published on the Barbican Life Magazine<\/strong> website: <\/em>https:\/\/barbicanlife.com\/unlocked-unleashed-unabated\/ <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read more of Natasha Anne Kelleher\u2019s work at bit.ly\/EMOETRY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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