Google Image/Grandma Moses in Eagle Bridge, NY
i am traveling the byways of
new york reaching deep
into antique shops and
2nd hand stores looking for
nothing in particular and
there by the side of the road
in a small new york hamlet
i see posted neatly out front
a sign “Homemade Preserves”
so i stop and park as i am
intrigued and so i walk
to the front door of a
well-appointed house knocking
so as not to disturb and
who should answer but you
i’ve read about your rising
fame and as newspapers tell it
you are ‘never too old’ to
try something new and you
certainly did as you’ve shown
i feel at ease as you smile
at me inviting me in for
biscuits and jam with tea
your eyes twinkling so as
though we’ve met before
and i so want to know why
you never painted before
when you were young..not
that eighty something is
not…and so you answer
without falter that there
never was time with children
to raise and a farm to run
and happiness comes from
where it comes and i see
now that your life’s been full
so when i leave, on that
my traveling day and see
images of all the surroundings,
it is like i’ve seen it all
before on the canvasses where
you captured them in the
snow and sun, the church and
the town, the farms where
people live and i see then
that it really is ‘never
too late’ to do something new
when there is time and yes,
‘happiness comes where it comes’
in the byways of a NY hamlet
© March 2013
Renee Espriu
Please do go to Wikipedia to read more about this famous artist American Artist whose folk art style of painting became known and loved around the world. She began painting when she was in her seventies. You can find the link at http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandma_Moses/
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