"atelier" poems
spirit stone
the emotion caught
in your embrace
where my body
melts into yours
the perfect blend
of masculine
and feminine
bathing in a river
of marble
the waves are
disquieting
the ring is lost
spirit stone
don’t deceive me
with other women
don’t trick me with
the old man
at your feet
I do not give up
I slave away
I work morning
and night
spirit stone
everything has been
cut
hay, wheat, stone
the interlude in
the fields
the moment when
the ring is found
dawn and thought
watch me
dawn and thought
wear on my
countenance
spirit stone
the moving echo
of my own past
the waltz to come
the hidden
atelier
the moment when
the king falls in love
with his wife
with his child
spirit stone
I am muse
I am artist
I am caught like
a fly
an agnostic
queen who found
the ring
to fall in the arms
of man
spirit stone
if you keep your
promise
we will grow
with the sky
if you keep your
promise
we will be in
paradise
Mar 21, 2016
Mar 21, 2016 at 12:46 PM UTC
An atelier, her small world
Dawn's begun, it's time to work
What do Muses have in store?
She walks with shirt and nothing more
Closer to the easel, brush in her hands
Nothing concrete is in her plans
She listens to the song of morning
With ideas slowly forming
She mixes paints, breathes them in
Such beauty just ought to be a sin
Hand dances on the canvas blank
A ballet of the highest rank
Possessed by gods, she paints and paints
Power surges through her veins
Fix imperfections, a final stroke
From trance she suddenly awoke
Two steps back, sharp eye of a critic
Mind that observes, an analytic
And when she's happy, she sits on the ground
Just looking and looking, not making a sound
In her mind's eye, she feels his embrace
Melancholic smile, tears on her face
She painted for him, though he can't see
"A one for the future, for him and for me"
Jan 18, 2022
Jan 18, 2022 at 6:47 PM UTC
Andrew Gn
Probably the most prolific Singaporean designer, Gn graduated from the renowned Saint Martins School of Art and Design in London and the Domus Academy in Milan before joining Emanuel Ungaro in 1992. He launched his namesake label in 1996, establishing a fan base among the Parisian high society and A-list celebrities such as Jessica de Rothschild and Sarah Jessica Parker for his luxurious fabrics and exquisite embellishments. Gn was awarded the President’s Design Award in 2007 and is stocked in all the major continents, with his atelier based in the Le Marais district in Paris.
Ashley Isham
The other Singaporean high fashion designer to hit big time in the international circuit, Isham established his namesake label in London in 2000, and is a show fixture at London Fashion Week. The label is known for its sharp, contemporary tailoring and high-octane glamour, and is a hit among film, TV and music stars as well as British royalty.
Aijek
Self-taught designer Danelle Woo creates easy-breezy, ultra-feminine pieces in sustainable fabrics. Aijek is stocked at multi-label boutiques in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, Latin America, the Middle East and the United States.
Depression
The neo-Gothic ready-to-wear label’s stark, minimalist designs are stocked in Hong Kong, Belgium, Japan and the U.S., and counts celebrities like Adam Lambert and The Black-Eyed Peas as fans.
Sabrina Goh
The feted Singaporean designer stocks her easy-to-wear pieces from her namesake label at multi-label boutiques in the United States, the Fred Segal store in Japan and a London-based online store Not Just A Label.
Max Tan
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Benjamin Barker
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In Good Company
The well-loved minimalist label with unusual silhouettes fronted by designers Sven Tan and Kane Tan is stocked in Hong Kong at Kapok, at various departmental stores in Jakarta, Indonesia, including Sogo, Seibu and Galleries Lafayette Jakarta and in New York’s Saks Fifth Avenue.Read more at:http://www.marieaustralia.com/formal-dresses-sydney | www.marieaustralia.com/formal-dresses-brisbane
Aug 19, 2016
Aug 19, 2016 at 12:23 AM UTC
Sleep in your wishes
Drunk on sapphire wine.
The atelier has drawn
its last cobweb.
The empty Sun
has banished its 49 saints,
the road home
is as ephemeral as the
first punch rendered.
Jul 29, 2012
Jul 29, 2012 at 9:07 AM UTC
The Artist wandered further
for whispers carry their weight in stone,
his eyes worn following the Moon
for in his deserted Atelier, spiders spatt
cobwebs and threadbare floors empty.
Gone was the idyllic image of the cherry blossom
that daintly settled on the ground
for now it collects over a canopy
where rogue cheeked maidens
gander .
And the memory of Muriel, his muse
who danced foolishly into the fire, returns.
Wherewithal can we ever measure the true value
For she was not guarded,
stubborn even, against those denizens
the way of the World being evil
and the remnant of the Flemish cloth she wore
laid out alongside the stone wall.
The flicker of innocence ruptured
A brush stroke never rendered.
May 24, 2012
May 24, 2012 at 6:09 PM UTC
Artificial, yet an artisan,
Pontifically partisan,
She raised her eyes to heaven high
And chiseled my heart with steady hands
She carved her own intricate façade,
And painted her mask to earn applaud,
Beneath her father’s right-wing feathers
Brought up to pray to his decreed god
He crowned her with his finest gems
To show her off to all his friends;
Helped her gild herself with gold
An aristocratic wright in the truest sense
“But I specialize in counterfeit,”
She said, as I saw under the definite
And skillful strokes, the expert notches,
A messy sketch yearning to freely acquit
“Then be free,” I said, as she let me in
Her atelier. So I scraped from her skin
The china-doll gloss and regal glitter,
And drained her blue blood of cyan tint
She smiled—the laughter lines made cracks
Through lips of plaster and cheeks of wax
I took the gleaming jewels from her eyes,
And saw new life glimmer in rolling tear tracks
She was a tempest of color, splattered and spilled
A muse incarnate that could not be stilled,
Chaos unveiled, but beautifully alive
With soul redeemed and freedom fulfilled
Mar 26, 2016
Mar 26, 2016 at 1:42 AM UTC
Je veux, pour composer chastement mes églogues,
Coucher auprès du ciel, comme les astrologues,
Et, voisin des clochers, écouter en rêvant
Leurs hymnes solennels emportés par le vent.
Les deux mains au menton, du haut de ma mansarde,
Je verrai l'atelier qui chante et qui bavarde ;
Les tuyaux, les clochers, ces mâts de la cité,
Et les grands ciels qui font rêver d'éternité.
Il est doux, à travers les brumes, de voir naître
L'étoile dans l'azur, la lampe à la fenêtre,
Les fleuves de charbon monter au firmament
Et la lune verser son pâle enchantement.
Je verrai les printemps, les étés, les automnes ;
Et quand viendra l'hiver aux neiges monotones,
Je fermerai partout portières et volets
Pour bâtir dans la nuit mes féeriques palais.
Alors je rêverai des horizons bleuâtres,
Des jardins, des jets d'eau pleurant dans les albâtres,
Des baisers, des oiseaux chantant soir et matin,
Et tout ce que l'Idylle a de plus enfantin.
L'Émeute, tempêtant vainement à ma vitre,
Ne fera pas lever mon front de mon pupitre ;
Car je serai plongé dans cette volupté
D'évoquer le Printemps avec ma volonté,
De tirer un soleil de mon coeur, et de faire
De mes pensers brûlants une tiède atmosphère.
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I
-dulcimer clatter opens the sun, first fruit-
timber fathoms/crystal veils
on all steps, crossing all human borders
untethering wood
from forest, until only the green element remains
to purify the soul
an alpine afterimage, shadow-display
(creature of Earth, moss-backed & yowling thru the chaotic sleep
of October, you see it's symbology in your tea, sharpening its
obsidian hands against the seastones,
imprinting loveliness into the rock, to be worn by tides,
replaced by death absolute)
The fabled Black Horse (shadow-self) waiting solitary at a
gas station, an imprisoned dreamer inside
its gaping jaw/saturnine, coldness
of daybreak, clouds at their Atelier, my head
feels a pressure, been awake too long,
breathing in through the nose/out through
mouth, monastery of the mind in need of clearing.
II
Soft/soft/skin/fury
embrace, catharsis, collision of
two individual energies
pent-up and cast/release
like a skeleton net::onfire
(kissed, consumed
elated, recurrance)
closeted eternities
cycling back into the
wind (hanging willow)
calling to the seeker, gold,
purification & lightness/mouthcurl washed in silence
(your own body, rising tide)
welcomed crucible of chilling air
& my black and
white vessel,
electricity spirit-
whispers
“valley swimmer, elude me”
FLASH OF LIGHT
III
…. The widewaking world
unspun-
theatric elucidation,
emergence of a great snake
a wisened flower, sprouted from exile
blissful rejuvination of
the ivory leaves, at once!
I wrap my throat in a Munich scarf
(pattern-blue)
walking upon the softness of
Grötzingen (angel's eyes speaking)
an orchard, where the last gardener's tireless
work lay like a dreaming ossuary
Oct 11, 2017
Oct 11, 2017 at 9:48 PM UTC
You have to drag yourself
Just to keep the dosh coming
To keep kinfolk from starving
Despite all these heavy lifting
You enter that poisonous atelier
Inside a cubicle, sit on your chair
Play staring games with computer screen
Drink a juice of coffee bean
That place, a modern day slavery ring
Where your ego is bruised and badly beaten
They own you 'cause they give you payslips
But even with that you know it ain't worth it
But that place isn't at fault
It's those who own the vault
They keep to them what's inside
They won't share, they hide
Under a mask of kindness
They advertise false incentives
But they won't give what you deserve
'Cause it belongs in their pockets
They won't listen to your pleads
Neither tend to your needs
Silently blackmail you instead
And then there goes your thread
Your thread, closer to inch
Your patience about to ditch
You know you'll burst sooner or later
They'll regret it all, when with them, you're finally over
Mar 29, 2015
Mar 29, 2015 at 9:56 PM UTC
Nascent thought provoking
threads flit to and fro
unseen solitary pinball wizard
cavalierly fiddles indiscriminately
leveraging outcome
silently holistic thought fragments
strewn staccoto scattershot
attenuated blitzkrieg
brain storm saturates,
par for course sandtrap engulfs,
chaos reverberates within
besieged cerebral corridor,
quotidian mental onslaught
spurns refugee exodus,
psychological ploy asper viable coping
function forgoes figurative
foothold toe tully forfeited
tenuous grasp slips forcing migration,
Sans psychotic shrapnel
clefts emotional well being,
without rhyme or reason
sense and sensibility rent asunder
rational, overall logical
modus operandi quashed
dealt fatal savage ******
soundless insanity relentlessly pounds
fifty plus shades gray matter
noiselessly bombarding
lofty craft cognitive faculty atelier
strafed emotional rescue
relegated to twilight zone
outer limits house barbed bereft ken
dolled, hallowed, and lobotomized
mined kempf desecrated sacred reliquary
orbits like a neurological asteroid belt
Self healing fragments repelled
despite fervent application grounded
evincing proof of positive thinking
courtesy Norman Vincent Peale
fore gone conclusion crowning
accursed albatross gussied as SPD
(schizoid personality disorder)
undefeated champ decamping forever
within noggin of this mortal male
til death do me part!
May 23, 2018
May 23, 2018 at 6:28 PM UTC
I praise Allah and thank Them
in both the physical and existential aspect for every beautifully greyish day
when I feel back in an English harbour from the 17th century,
where birds, ropes, wind,
bells and hammers against
the ships’ casings resound,
half in my vision stuck on reality
and half verily,
or on a faraway heather field,
where my books, thoughts,
words in pictures
and lives of Heart
are as if my own
tremendous in passion atelier
of a scribe
or my other flowers of brown.
I posses adoration in these grays,
blues, whites,
greens and browns of these days, freshnesses and delightments.
Nevertheless I need to meet and comprehend each other
till the end belovingly
with the Sun,
see behind its backstage the lack of imposing Time,
periods or actions, rush.
Sit down once without carnal duties
nor other shenanigans
and witness the whole solar and lunar cycle for the whole 24 hours
and thus see beyond their mechanism
and presence
and thus go
through that next conscience,
through these silver-golden curtains
with navy blue clips.
Isn’t that sitting over,
sitting down face to face
with the Day,
supposed Time, Matter,
instead of constant doing,
having or confusion
of the thoughts
the same as finally looking
straight into the other person’s eyes
to give them our witnessing
of our attention,
a bow,
and at the same time
a proud head raising,
especially for them,
instead of walking around them
and treating as another matter
to be solved?
No rhetorical question.
May I reach as fast as it’s the best
the beloving of wisdom
as a true philosopher
in my identity, not cognitivity.
Aug 15, 2020
Aug 15, 2020 at 4:05 AM UTC
Incredulous Female Power
Born for shredding...
Her own offspring First.
Atelier of weavers looms..
Tiberius Rope built of a thousand lies of Hate and Envy
Nothing Like it, So Fantastical its Creation
Tied around the minds of the fury cows that walked inside the caverns of her teachings,
Greek Chorus, Mooing loudly at the spectacular dime of each allegory .. Like a spell was placed..
Each made more dramatic by the hissing that came from under tongue with every Holy Speech
No Woman with any SIGHT allowed
Only boys, for breeding....
And with their mates.. Never
No challenge met or allowed
Loves Imprisonment by the Unsexed One
Lust of Greed
Mar 26, 2016
Mar 26, 2016 at 1:33 AM UTC
Autrefois dans Bagdad le calife Almamon
Fit bâtir un palais plus beau, plus magnifique,
Que ne le fut jamais celui de Salomon.
Cent colonnes d'albâtre en formaient le portique ;
L'or, le jaspe, l'azur, décoraient le parvis ;
Dans les appartements embellis de sculpture,
Sous des lambris de cèdre, on voyait réunis
Et les trésors du luxe et ceux de la nature,
Les fleurs, les diamants, les parfums, la verdure,
Les myrtes odorants, les chefs-d'œuvres de l'art,
Et les fontaines jaillissantes
Roulant leurs ondes bondissantes
A côté des lits de brocard.
Près de ce beau palais, juste devant l'entrée,
Une étroite chaumière, antique et délabrée,
D'un pauvre tisserand était l'humble réduit.
Là, content du petit produit
D'un grand travail, sans dette et sans soucis pénibles,
Le bon vieillard, libre, oublié,
Coulait des jours doux et paisibles,
Point envieux, point envié.
J'ai déjà dit que sa retraite
Masquait le devant du palais.
Le vizir veut d'abord, sans forme de procès,
Qu'on abatte la maisonnette ;
Mais le calife veut que d'abord on l'achète.
Il fallut obéir : on va chez l'ouvrier,
On lui porte de l'or. Non, gardez votre somme,
Répond doucement le pauvre homme ;
Je n'ai besoin de rien avec mon atelier :
Et, quant à ma maison, je ne puis m'en défaire ;
C'est là que je suis né, c'est là qu'est mort mon père ;
Je prétends y mourir aussi.
Le calife, s'il veut, peut me chasser d'ici ;
Il peut détruire ma chaumière :
Mais, s'il le fait, il me verra
Venir, chaque matin, sur la dernière pierre
M'asseoir et pleurer ma misère :
Je connais Almamon, son cœur en gémira.
Cet insolent discours excita la colère
Du vizir, qui voulait punir ce téméraire,
Et sur-le-champ raser sa chétive maison.
Mais le calife lui dit : Non,
J'ordonne qu'à mes frais elle soit réparée ;
Ma gloire tient à sa durée :
Je veux que nos neveux, en la considérant,
Y trouvent de mon règne un monument auguste :
En voyant le palais, ils diront : Il fut grand ;
En voyant la chaumière, ils diront : Il fut juste.
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Don´t we adore the flawless and illusory pure,
but do we truly trust in cloudless views?
There’s a common liking of what is unscathed
but I’m weak for the dust and debris in you.
You taught me to see beauty in the broken,
healed my mind, like sandpaper and glue.
Maybe you changed me for the better,
for my restoration atelier is finally in use.
Nov 29, 2021
Nov 29, 2021 at 3:37 PM UTC
Ainsi l'hôtel de ville illumine son faîte.
Le prince et les flambeaux, tout y brille, et la fête
Ce soir va resplendir sur ce comble éclairé,
Comme l'idée au front du poète sacré.
Mais cette fête, amis, n'est pas une pensée.
Ce n'est pas d'un banquet que la France est pressée,
Et ce n'est pas un bal qu'il faut, en vérité,
A ce tas de douleurs qu'on nomme la cité !
Puissants ! nous ferions mieux de panser quelque plaie
Dont le sage rêveur à cette heure s'effraie,
D'étayer l'escalier qui d'en bas monte en haut,
D'agrandir l'atelier, d'amoindrir l'échafaud,
De songer aux enfants qui sont sans pain dans l'ombre,
De rendre un paradis au pauvre impie et sombre,
Que d'allumer un lustre et de tenir la nuit
Quelques fous éveillés autour d'un peu de bruit !
Ô reines de nos toits, femmes chastes et saintes,
Fleurs qui de nos maisons parfumez les enceintes,
Vous à qui le bonheur conseille la vertu,
Vous qui contre le mal n'avez pas combattu,
A qui jamais la faim, empoisonneuse infâme,
N'a dit : Vends-moi ton corps, - c'est-à-dire votre âme !
Vous dont le cœur de joie et d'innocence est plein,
Dont la pudeur a plus d'enveloppes de lin
Que n'en avait Isis, la déesse voilée,
Cette fête est pour vous comme une aube étoilée !
Vous riez d'y courir tandis qu'on souffre ailleurs !
C'est que votre belle âme ignore les douleurs ;
Le hasard vous posa dans la sphère suprême ;
Vous vivez, vous brillez, vous ne voyez pas même,
Tant vos yeux éblouis de rayons sont noyés,
Ce qu'au-dessous de vous dans l'ombre on foule aux pieds !
Oui, c'est ainsi. - Le prince, et le riche, et le monde
Cherche à vous réjouir, vous pour qui tout abonde.
Vous avez la beauté, vous avez l'ornement ;
La fête vous enivre à son bourdonnement,
Et, comme à la lumière un papillon de soie,
Vous volez à la porte ouverte qui flamboie !
Vous allez à ce bal, et vous ne songez pas
Que parmi ces passants amassés sur vos pas,
En foule émerveillés des chars et des livrées,
D'autres femmes sont là, non moins que vous parées,
Qu'on farde et qu'on expose à vendre au carrefour ;
Spectres où saigne encor la place de l'amour ;
Comme vous pour le bal, belles et demi-nues ;
Pour vous voir au passage, hélas ! exprès venues,
Voilant leur feuil affreux d'un sourire moqueur,
Les fleurs au front, la boue aux pieds, la haine au cœur !
Mai 1833.
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On vénère à Tolède une image de Vierge,
Devant qui toujours tremble une lueur de cierge ;
Poupée étincelante en robe de brocart,
Comme si l'or était plus précieux que l'art !
Et sur cette statue on raconte une histoire
Qu'un enfant de six mois refuserait de croire,
Mais que doit accepter comme une vérité
Tout poète amoureux de la sainte beauté.
Quand la Reine des cieux au grand saint Ildefonse,
Pour le récompenser de la grande réponse,
Quittant sa tour d'ivoire au paradis vermeil,
Apporta la chasuble en toile de soleil,
Par curiosité, par caprice de femme,
Elle alla regarder la belle Notre-Dame,
Ouvrage merveilleux dans l'Espagne cité,
Rêve d'ange amoureux, à deux genoux sculpté,
Et devant ce portrait resta toute pensive
Dans un ravissement de surprise naïve.
Elle examina tout : - le marbre précieux ;
Le travail patient, chaste et minutieux ;
La jupe raide d'or comme une dalmatique ;
Le corps mince et fluet dans sa grâce gothique ;
Le regard virginal tout baigné de langueur,
Et le petit Jésus endormi sur son cœur.
Elle se reconnut et se trouva si belle,
Qu'entourant de ses bras la sculpture fidèle,
Elle mit, au moment de remonter aux cieux,
Au front de son image un baiser radieux.
Ah ! que de tels récits, dont la raison s'étonne
Dans ce siècle trop clair pour que rien y rayonne,
Au temps de poésie où chacun y croyait,
Devaient calmer le cœur de l'artiste inquiet !
Faire admirer au ciel l'ouvrage de la terre,
Cet espoir étoilait l'atelier solitaire,
Et le ciseau pieux longtemps avec amour
Pour le baiser divin caressait le contour.
Si la Vierge, à Paris, avec son auréole,
Sur les autels païens de notre âge frivole
Descendait et venait visiter son portrait,
Croyez-vous, ô sculpteurs, qu'elle s'embrasserait ?
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if you were an atelier
i would take a visit everyday
treasure all that is inside of you
you are a wonderful piece
created by the masters
May 11, 2019
May 11, 2019 at 5:33 PM UTC
Winters crushing silence, Lacoste’s new dawn
Art all consuming through empathic suave
And evocative frontiers
Lacoste in love with crafts enlightened beacon
Irregular lines devolve from medieval skeletal relics
Trompe-l'œil beggars ones belief
Windows framed empty
The eye drawn to its historical tone
A sweeping brush strokes the virginal canvas
Golden colours materialise within ones conceptional dream
A spatial aura now raked on pastoral hues
Sparten skies embodies synonymous revelations
Roberts chiselled forms soar out of soft stones erosion
Grains becomes a wash with the cream of gold
Flowers lay wanton to the stony mural
Echoing within each cranial abyss
Ambience sings to the wavering hand
Sprouting wings on the back of birds in song
Luberon’s wide shoulders cradles a fire from Martha's bellows
Beguiling the light illuminates each hillside easel
Materials cut from the heart of Cécile
Mounted on heady heights
Engages empowerment in nuptial bonding
Transitioning to unearth the wearer
Gaby finds his source in prehistory
Rumbling tractors stitching together the whispering landscape
Everts clay forms upon the Noahs ark prepare for the coming art uprising
Compatriote born of the land, immortalised in clay
Hérold crystallized forms evoke surreal echoes
Playing the open gambit of Le Sade agape
Empowering the village through their art
Artists of Lacoste forge an oeuvreal village from the jagged walls
Artsploitation a road to ones soul
Artspronouciation reaching the road
Art a levelling climate settles the crowd
Amity conjuring future artisan fingers
The nesting atelier
Fledglings prepare to dip a toe
Stretching wings in mind, body and soul
Freeing spirits of old
Jun 21, 2023
Jun 21, 2023 at 6:36 AM UTC