Artist: Marc Chagall
Image: Marc Chagall, Bride with a Fan (1911), oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
(courtesy of d'Verse, Poets Pub)
Many may not realize itWe anticipate just as much
To welcome a new beginning
All dressed up but with reservations
Where are we heading?
A bride with myriads of questions
Wanting answers but utterly helpless
All matters had been touched on
Many months preceding today
Arising from many sources
All came with good intentions
There was a lot of excitement
Among friends and relatives
There was a lot of teasing
There were a lot of questions
There were a lot of answers
Suddenly she finds herself alone
All the answers she received before
Come flooding in now all at once
Overwhelmed her being all confusing
In such a mystifying moment
Her recollections of one person
Stood the grounds affording her
The confidence – her mother’s
Melissa Lemay at d'Verse, Poets Pub - Don’t box me in: Chagall
You captured the feelings of many a bride in your interpretation of the painting, Hank, especially in the lines:
ReplyDelete‘To welcome a new beginning
All dressed up but with reservations’
and
‘Suddenly she finds herself alone
All the answers she received before
Come flooding in now all at once’.
I can really see how much this is a pivotal moment for her.
ReplyDeleteYou've captured the sense of unease so well, Hank, and given us a portrait of a bride commensurate with the painting. So well done.
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