Persian
Pond
Here in Kew Gardens
royal botanical brilliance
is the ethereal Persian pond
and the breathtaking beauty
of Dale Chihuly and his
white glass sculptures
placed amongst water lilies
floating with a seductive splendor
that naturally belongs here.
His art now invents life
as a new form.
A force that finds expression
in a thousand and one
reflections, rippling energy
through the one who looks
and would cause even Aristophanes
to exclaim! "which of you
took the other as your model?"
royal botanical brilliance
is the ethereal Persian pond
and the breathtaking beauty
of Dale Chihuly and his
white glass sculptures
placed amongst water lilies
floating with a seductive splendor
that naturally belongs here.
His art now invents life
as a new form.
A force that finds expression
in a thousand and one
reflections, rippling energy
through the one who looks
and would cause even Aristophanes
to exclaim! "which of you
took the other as your model?"
Kew Royal Botanical Gardens ~ London ~ June 2019
Note:
In “The Symposium”, Plato has Aristophanes, a famous Greek theatre and comedy writer, tell the story of the Soulmates. Plato's story describes humans as originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.
"Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our human nature together, it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature. Each of us then is a matching half of a human whole and each of us is always seeking our soulmate, to fuse with the other half that matches us."