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"Four Directions" by stained glass artist Stratoz
My friend Stratoz invited me to write a Nouvelle 55 based upon one of his stunning stained glass pieces. This poem is the result. I feel drawn to connect Stratoz' piece with art by Marc Chagall and Carl Jung (who found in mandalas representations of the Self), two people whose souls exploded in creativity, as bright and wild as Stratoz' "Four Directions." This piece is a square mandala, when most manadalas are a circle (some with a square inside). Read Stratoz' post about the healing ways of mandalas here.
The story of Israel — of Jews, of Arabs— of the great conflicts that never end, was made more poignant for me this morning when I read that the large Arab population in the Galilee region of Israel is predominantly Druze. Some believe that the Druze people descended from the Tribe of Zebulun, one of the twelve tribes of Israel. Oh that the tribes of the world could be joined as skillfully as Stratoz melds the living colors of his stained glass, and as Chagall did his stained glass, and as Jung did the colors of the unbreakable self.
The Starprompted by Stratoz' "Four Directions"Break the mirror.
Four-square hands
reunite in sacred sand.
Gather saturation,
arrowed imagination
east-ended by the sea
a sky-blue Galilee
in the colors of this dream.
Gate my red
leaf-paint the green
Bright my heart—
good this art
circling the sacred soul apart.
Pull into light, my star—
Self, borne into near
and far
Lithograph, by Marc Chagall
"The Tribe of Zebulun"
from The Twelve Maquettes
Of Stained Glass Windows
For Jerusalem, 1964
Of Stained Glass Windows
For Jerusalem, 1964
found here
The Red Cross, Carl Jung's illustration from The Red Book
Nouvelle 55 is a flash fiction written in exactly 55 words, based on a piece of art.
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