Is There Poetry in Pottery?

This is what my friend, Mick, wanted to contribute to my blog...a poem he wrote to me in 1993 and which I put on a plate. I now have the plate in my new apartment and so I will take a photo to go with this poetry contribution.

.....from Mick in his email:


Is There Poetry in Pottery?

Yes!
Images
and dreams
a shared splendor--

it is all
in the transforming
of the eye
and hand--

turning mud and water
into textured
shapes--

So the beholder
is reflected in

these shining surfaces.

(1993)

Mick also wrote:
original version of my poem as trascribed onto pottery plates and bowls by "mad ark", 1993, Regina

14 lines, a proto-liberated sonnet

(In case the stanzas get broken up by email page divisions the correct number of lines for each stanza follows:
4/4/3/2/1
How about that??!)