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Our Marble Womb

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White marble windowless womb

Seals inspiration inward, like a skull

Fenced by a colonnade and oaken doors,

A maze of steps and echoes.

 

White marble magic walls keep back the night,

Exclude the loud cheap town - its angry sirens,

Stumbling traffic, its cut-price ugly crowds

With inbred voices raised - our culture cuts away

These vicious tumours.

 

This purer place enshrining higher thoughts

This hall of crafted dreams and chosen things

This honoured space that holds us safe

And gives our words

A home.

 

 

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Nicola Hulme

Wed 22nd Mar 2017 22:33

We are so lucky to be allowed in this "honoured space", our poems are creative offerings in return.

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John F Keane

Wed 22nd Mar 2017 22:16

The gallery is a shrine with art its sacrament.

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Nigel Astell

Wed 22nd Mar 2017 12:53

A fitting setting to let your mind relax so far away from the stress and madness that people accept as normal in the outside world.

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