Linda Ibbotson
(Ireland)
Artist
(En plein air)
You paint
In a frenzy,
before light
and your eyes
have grown dim.
Your intuition
filled with longing
as silence unwrapped
a gift on the breeze
and blew words
that canvas embraced.
Born from a fusion
of red ochre and breath
vibrancy sang her chorus
to the blind
and shade
that you no longer see
turns to darkness
as your palette,
sgraffito layered
and scoured
with the sharpness
of your perception
surrenders,
and waits
for the paint
to dry.
Your Notes
Pre-Raphaelite eyes,
charcoal etched
in Florence.
Tousled hair,
textured,
on damson velvet.
A troubadour,
sensuous poetic lips
flavoured with
orange and absinthe.
Like a burning violin
your melody
of 1,000 notes
lulled you into
a feverish haze.
Botticelli played
in your sad eyes
of discontent as
spine to spine,
your notes
enwrapped with
doubt and uncertainty
lay upon
cold satin sheets.
Lost Line
Searching,
in the vernacular
amongst curves
of cormorant wings
flying through the eclipse
of tangerine moons.
Carving,
from phantom fingertips
lamenting muse
on mahogany strummed lutes.
Shall I weave
randomly
from empty breath
sifted from
seven shores
of Sahara dunes,
my feather quill
etched in
Indian blue?
Or
Shall words
be stolen
from tears
collected
in skin bottles
from the ashes
of dead mens’ bones?
Lost,
in emptiness
from the space
not yet filled
I am searching…
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Linda Ibbotson was born in Sheffield, England, lived in Switzerland and Germany, travelled extensively throughout Europe and Morocco, spent a month in India before settling in County Cork, Ireland 18 years ago.
A poet, artist and photographer her poems have been internationally published in the Blue Max Review, the Mad Swirl, the Porter Gulch Review 2013, the Inspired Heart and Epistome.
She has had poetry read on Phoenix fm radio in Australia and has been interviewed on CRY104 fm. radio in Ireland. She writes a regular poetry feature for Musicians Together “on line” music magazine and a fortnightly feature for Plum Tree Books focusing on poetry, music and arts events in Ireland.
Linda was invited to read at the Abroad Writers Conference in Lismore Castle Ireland, December 2013.
http://musicianstogether.com/magazine/2013/04/05/contemplating-the-muse-linda-ibbotson/