THE VIEW FROM SPRING BANK ARTS

THE VIEW FROM SPRING BANK ARTS

I’m stopping the car on Spring Bank

Journey paused, in morning commute

Clear views across the whole valley

A perfect point to stand and think

I waved a telephone at the sky

Image trapped, a moment frozen

Panoramic settings try taking it all in

A tough ask - spectacularly failing

The Tweet is faster than the brain

The car parked; a moment of awe

Dawn’s lightshow simply too complex

For mere text characters to convey

Sharing to the world I call the shot

“The View from Spring Bank Arts”

Sending the words out unchecked

In light-speed haste aimed to please all

Adding “Arts” is just a habit

A stone-set mental aberration

The mind’s leap of association

Total Ars gratia artis

The tweet is faster than the idea

The human struggles to keep up

Warm glows of eagerness to please

Overtaken by a momentous moment

Inspired, the mind shifts further -

Tweet direct to Spring Bank Arts…!

They appear to have a web-life

Bright daylight might shine some joy

My head is full of Spring Banks

Pink brilliance is dancing off the glass

Send an image of their own building

Which it isn’t - it turns out

My brain’s confused the stonework

Art space is further down the street

It was the Adult Education Centre

Which filled my tiny plastic eye

The tweet is faster than the thought

Those windows on reflection

Despite my insistent recollection

Aren’t Spring Bank Arts at all

Martin A W Holmes, Sept 2016