Poster Image
$20
Item#: 2016SYR12
Purchase Details
11x17-inches, printed on heavy weight (100-pound) Hammermill cover paper. We package each print with a piece of chipboard in a clear plastic sleeve.
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An information page with photos of the artist and poet, and hand-written comments from each.
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Poem Inspiration Location
An Ocean Blue Sky
poster information
Description
An ocean blue sky
floating over cool Green Lakes
A dragonfly dreams
Green Lakes is one of my favorite places in Central New York, in the summer and throughout the year. You can go there with a friend or by yourself. I try to be there as much as I can. It's a beautiful place. It's another world.
Whenever I write haiku, it's more about nature. I want to write about what I see.
When I see the clouds and the water, it just stops me. You want to capture it in words—the way you want to take a picture.
Anyone coming to Central New York or the city, I would like to encourage them to visit that beautiful place.
I gravitated to this poem because I really enjoy Green Lakes. I'm from Rhode Island, so I am by the water all the time. I went to Green Lakes for the first time at the end of freshman year and fell in love with it. It's like a hidden gem. It has a nice hiking trail, and the water is the most unique color—such a vivid and vibrant green and blue.
I focused first on the dragonfly because I was so intrigued by their intricate wings. At first I was going to do a traditional landscape, but I knew I wanted to incorporate Green Lakes in a more modern way. I was looking at things online and there were terrariums in interesting glass containers. This inspired me to put Green Lake in a Mason jar to make it a little surreal because the poem talks about a dragonfly dreaming.