Art inspired -- Thursday Poem

Lady Problems (2015); The Fast Learner (2013)

At Regent's Park

We're savoring Nature in the mid eighties

It really won't matter which we chose

Trollies or busses, or covered wagons

Take Regent's Park in the 1980's

We push our young in her pram.  Scattering

Scattering crumbs along the way for ducks

With the ducks following we make our way

First stop is the lake, there's no ice today

Toss the rest of the bread--the quacking stops

We are history, those ducks find someone new

Young ones are busy racing their sailboats

Crafted last night loving care, pieces now

Trees are budding flowers--no blossoms yet

Spring is hiding no more, she she's turning green

We walk some miles birds abound, large and small

Still not one flower--have ice cream and go

Our way out we stop to watch trapeze school

Students learning their ropes out in the cool

Leaving we head over to Primrose Hill

And have some fish and chips on our way back

 

[The neighborhood park just off Abbey Road]

Notes:
This poem was supposed to be inspired after reading of the life and viewing some of the art of the turn of the 19th Century Canadian artist Emily Carr.  You can read of her at the link below.  I was impressed by her totem pole subjects' renditions but was not particularly inspired by them to write.

I WAS NOT INSPIRDED TO WRITE BY  ANY  ONE

OF THEM IN PARTICULAR, JUST HER MOTIVATION IN GENERAL.

I was inspired by her efforts to keep Nature's marvels and beauty in the untamed. Though she did not specifically write or paint of preservation, our municipalities have obliged with a wonderful collection of accessible parks for us humans to enjoy.  This thought plus the liberal free gifts that the British have given inspired me to write of the magnificent London Regent's Park which I have enjoyed visiting quite frequently (see my reference below).
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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2013, 2019, 2019, All Rights Reserved
 - I am linked with Wild Woman in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/08/wordy-thursday-with-wild-woman-art-of.html?m=1

 - When our daughter was in London working, for five years, we visited her often and stayed long. I believe every time we visited Regent's Park at least once.  It makes a pleasant and safe place for walking.  Link