Vincent Berquez: Two Poems

V i n c e n t   B e r q u e z

T w o   P o e m s

 

P o r c e l a i n

You wait for me patiently

for my events to happen

for my heart to meet yours.

Sliding fingers into fingers

we canter through the busy city

I brush you off gently –

like dusting precious porcelain.

I still want the proposal offered

but slowly, in measured footsteps,

in calm, tame light,

within my heart’s capacity.

You wait patiently.

Seeds will be sown as plants push

through the soil, appearing like a miracle.

Porcelain flowers you and I.

T h e   v i t a l   o r e

I have planted my flag deep in your territory

in fantastical realms unknown to me for so long,

in the greater mystery of life my strong sail skitted

and skimmed me towards the shore of your heart.

The clauses within craziness and controlled chaos

that can be this existence often spiralling, imposed

in the blind roots as the route was broken through

and you appeared on a lighter horizon in loving glow.

My flag flies passionately in the hardy swirling air

and sparkles in the whooshing breeze of my vital nature

and in the height of the azure sky, embedded, pushed in

I embellish and decorate my thoughts into the earth,

into the crust of clay, deep into vital ore, and there I find you.

Vincent Berquez: Two Poems

 

VINCENT BERQUEZ: THE THREE MALE GRACES 2006

27cm x 59cm, wood based, plastered and plated in aluminium

Vincent Berquez: “The Christian equivalent of the Three Graces of antiquity could be said to be Faith, Hope and Charity. These represent the embodiment of womanhood and the better nature of an ideal, always entwined and gathered together in unity. In my work I thought that man could be represented in a similar way and why had he not been in this way in the first place? Was it that the male could only be perceived in strength and the warring attributes? My male Three Graces are also entwined as a unity. They blend and meld within each other. I have envisaged that they represent Courage, Integrity and Honesty. That these virtues in our world are important, that as a man the combination would be the best way we could be with Faith, Hope and Charity, we could make a better, safer world.”

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