God’s creations of splendorous beauty,
living symbols of Eternity…
Handsome Peacocks open to display,
inviting drab hens to come their way
to mate and procreate,
to bring more beauty to this world
of ugly jealousies and insults hurled,
self-righteous moralities, beauty maligned,
Nature oppressed and reasons to find
fault, to deny the wonders of God
revealed in the Peacocks’ eyes…
February 20, 2021
Shelley Wilson
Come. Let’s cross boundaries…
You have nothing to fear as we go.
Let’s walk through gates of definitions
into a glorious, Global Garden of Beauty-
the realm of Arts and Crafts there.
Let’s explore that vast World Between,
where definitions of Fine Arts and Crafts
are sometimes seen to merge and blend…
Let’s walk where aesthetic artistry
and reverent responses to Beauty
send us beyond simple perceptions.
Here are Crafts inspiring imaginations,
stirring emotions to flow…
Here, they meet with Fine Arts too-
those wondrous creations made through
skills, talents, techniques and tools.
Here, Beauty speaks the same language
understood in feelings we all know.
Come. Let’s cross boundaries…
You have nothing to fear as we go.
February 17, 2021
Shelley Wilson
I’m just at the beading phase of my new weaving ‘Victoria’ the name of the city on Vancouver Island where I’ve lived over ten years this second time around.
Perhaps, like me, you’ve come to see
the Artists we most Celebrate,
in every Art that we create,
succeed through geographical Location
and supporting networks-Association.
How often Celebrated Art is a case
depending on glue and glamour of place,
depending on who it is Artists know,
spreading that glamour wherever they go.
On the global ‘Web’ I’ve come to see
Artistic Treasures to buy or admire for free
by Artists outside the Great Art Game,
not following the rules for Fortune and Fame
or knowing those who invest to profit and win
more wealth through Art and Artists now ‘in’.
I Celebrate Artists who stand apart
quietly creating their wondrous Art.
February 7, 2021
Shelley Wilson
This is a small collection of Chinese statues I have. The middle one was inherited from my Great Grandmother who lived in Shanghai for a while. I like to think that its inlaid metal details are gold. The other two sculptures were bought a few years ago in a little consignment shop for a few dollars each. Now I call them the three old, wise men. I prefer to think they represent an ancient wisdom tradition of the Chinese culture of times past. There’s much to let go of in all cultures and much of value to treasure from the past in their ongoing evolution. That’s how I see it anyways. 😍
Flowerpoet 
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