Travel Souvenir and At Home Gift

This musical instrument is a travel souvenir from Egypt in 2007. The wire art is a more recent gift I received from someone who knew that I write poetry and love flowers. Together, they are a delight for my eyes.

Flowerpoet Shelley

Kin

There is Peace in Understanding

and Higher Wisdom found within

when All Lives are seen as Kin.

Many a Fear surrounds us here

but there’s a Power, beyond measure,

Life’s greatest gift, our hidden treasure,

God’s own Heaven found within,

our Creator found within,

Grace and Freedom found within.

Then All Lives are seen as Kin.

April 17, 2021

Shelley Wilson

Lazy Days

I love my slow and lazy days

when duties and demands can rest

with saddened thoughts of troubled times.

I love my slow and lazy days

when I create the many ways

to luxuriate in leisure,

to simply drift without a care

on a boat of lazy rhymes

feeling happy, light and blessed

by moments now here to share,

enjoying my inner treasure.

April 15, 2021

Shelley Wilson

The Beauty of Youth and Aging

The Beauty of Youth

Mythologized

and Maligned…

Youth’s Beauty

Expressed and

Divinely Blessed…

Flowers of Youth

in Spring…

the Narcissus…

March 11, 2021

Aging

Time draws fine lines

then etches deep

on forms that Beauty

tries in vain to keep

from Aging’s swift decline.

March 11, 2021

Shelley Wilson

Weaving Completed

As ever with my weavings, Victoria The Beautiful is not perfect but it’s exactly the way I want it to be. I enjoyed the unhurried and unplanned process. Although I say it’s finished, I think perhaps I will add one or two small scrolls of my poetry and some momentos I’ve yet to gather.

The fringe on the right refers the the colour feelings I identify with this city of Victoria, BC, Canada…calm, cool and collected even in challenging times. The greens represent the mosses, lichens, leaves of trees and shrubs, the pinks and whites of the cherry trees, the purplish pinks of heathers, the yellows of broom blossoms, bright pinks and oranges of the many flowers here, the grey of the sea and sky, the blue and white of the sky on sunny days, the pebbles and rocks of the beaches, the peacock colours I identify as the vibes of this beautiful city…

As I said before, it’s not perfect but it’s exactly the way I want it to be.