[{"id":6273,"date":"2019-09-10T16:29:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T20:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/massoniart.com\/?page_id=6273"},"modified":"2019-09-17T09:33:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T13:33:54","slug":"trees-feeling-inspired","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/massoniart.com\/trees-feeling-inspired\/","title":{"rendered":"TREES: feeling inspired…"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]We have received such a wonderful response from visitors to the exhibit. Many have been inspired to share their own artwork, words or published works that have brought them the same emotional response as this extraordinary exhibit.<\/p>\n
We would like to share those with you so you, too, can be inspired by TREES\u2026[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n
– Wendell Berry\u2019s The Country of Marriage<\/em><\/p>\n (contributed by Amy Haines and Richard Marks<\/em>)<\/p>\n In the mating of trees,
\nthe pollen grain entering invisible
\nthe domed room of the winds, survives
\nthe ghost of the old forest
\nthat was here when we came. The ground
\ninvites it, and it will not be gone.
\nI become the familiar of that ghost
\nand its ally, carrying in a bucket
\ntwenty trees smaller than weeds,
\nand I plant them along the way
\nof the departure of the ancient host.
\nI return to the ground its original music.
\nIt will rise out of the horizon
\nof the grass, and over the heads
\nof weeds, and it will rise over
\nthe horizon of men\u2019s heads. As I age
\nin the world it will rise and spread,
\nand be for this place horizon
\nand orison, the voice of its winds.
\nI have made myself a dream to dream
\nof its rising, that has gentled my nights.
\nLet me desire and wish well the life
\nthese trees may live when I
\nno longer rise in the mornings
\nto be pleased by the green of them
\nshining, and their shadows on the ground,
\nand the sound of the wind in them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image source=”external_link” custom_src=”http:\/\/massoniart.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/trees-inspiration\/image1.jpeg” caption=”“Erin’s Arm“ – Erin Cooper”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]\nTREES: feeling inspired\u2026<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]