An Artist's Eye

Edward Wadsworth

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AN ARTIST'S EYE

It takes an artist's eye

To discover it.....

The beauty in the practical.

The sheen,

The curves,

The shadows and reflections.

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These are not only the propellers

Of 1940,

The necessary adjunts to a mechanical and menacing

War.

They are shapes, contours, patterns,

Placed with perspective

And viewed

With a sympathetic eye.

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Ours is a different age.

It is not combat,

Up where the winds blow,

That terrifies us.

It is the energy,

Up where the winds blow,

That gives us hope.

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Let us try to blend necessity with art.

Already there are magnificent examples

Of what is possible.

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Let us not say

'Necessity is the Mother of Invention'.

Rather let us say

'Necessity is the Mother of Beauty.'

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More thanks to the wind here:

http://rinklyrimes.blogspot.com/2008/10/155blowing-in-wind.html