MUD-BOWL

Dedicated to Sandra and her beautiful bowls….


The deep, dark mud of middle earth,
the medium that molds the birth
of an earthen vessel marked
by many colored glazes.
Cobalt blue and china white
a simple bowl for child's delight,
to upward stretch to spacious skies
collecting raindrops from God's eyes.
Sweet seasalt tears of springtime storms
captured by the earth pot, fired and fixed.
Just now the muddy vessel sits
in a molten red, deep sandy pit
with bits of seaweed, wind blown pine-
stones gathered in the darkened time
of storm approaching.
In the heat of the carnelian blaze
black mud commingles with the glaze-
a palette of sea and sky.
In time,
the firing moments die,
in time the pot is done.
A little child lifts it high
to raindrops, dew drops and sun.
Sunrise sees her drink
the love that brings renewal,
Dawn…a crystal jewel caught
in a mud and sand fired,
simple pot.