Poetry can be calming, intriguing, or invigorating. But it generally takes opening a book to read a poem. Put one right out in the open with these home decor pieces:
- Poem on canvas by Catherine Ekstrom via A Design Student.
- A bit of poetry emblazoned in a balcony rail via A Place for Words.
- George Bernard Shaw wall decal by rEVOLV3rApparel on Etsy.
- A poem that continues from a wall down onto stair risers, part of the Staircase Poetry Project by artist Alice Lyons.
- An idea from Nskwood incorporates words and decorative hanging plates.
Do you have any poetry incorporated into your home's decor, even it it's simply writing poems with refrigerator magnets? Please tell us about it below.
Images: A Design Student, A Place for Words, rEVOLV3rApparel, Alice Lyons, Nskwood
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I have a large canvas with chalkboard paint that I switch up poetry on. Am planning on including my own haiku at my husband's insistence for posterity - with a white paint pen on the black chalkboard paint. Thanks for the introduction to Place for Words - what an interesting organization!
As a poet myself, I have a couple framed broadsides hanging around.
Thanks, Carrington - I fixed the Alice Lyons link.
I love this post. That staircase is gorgeous! I love the idea of framing poetry but I think I'd want to change it often so something that permanent would be a but daunting.
I do have a couple of verses framed on my bedroom wall; it's the reading we had at our wedding, in two different languages. I had a calligrapher do them for me, and had them framed as an anniversary gift to my husband.
When I was in art school - I did a painting that was a poem I had written and my painting professor said to me "Well that's not really a painting..." I have had that canvas in storage for years now.. maybe I will revisit it.
personacide -- geez, i think i heard a lot of that kind of thing in school, as well. i couldn't stay 'in the lines', so to speak. unfortunately, i listened to these so called teachers.....but am living outside the lines still.
George Bernard Shaw is a playwright, not a poet, and his quote does not equal poetry.
"These are a few of my favorite things" is a line from the lyrics to "My Favorite Things", written by Oscar Hammerstein II, a songwriter, not a poet.
I love that you're including poetry. Could you take the time to research a little more so you could include more actual poetry images and links?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nic/127176135/
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/article.html?id=178260
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5931
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&q=poetry+on+wallpaper&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=qpmXTKyACYvUtQOm9ITACg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CCIQsAQwAA&biw=1024&bih=651
http://www.judithdobrzynski.com/7703/where-paint-and-poetry-meet
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/shahnameh/index.html
Finding the links above took me 8 minutes.
@Rapunzel: There's no need to be rude and so literal. We all got the idea when they said "poetry", didn't we? Take it easy...
I have a little blackboard in my bedroom and I write one of my favourite quotes or verses every now and then with coloured chalks.
@rapunzel - thanks for the cool links!
ChildeDeirdre: William Carlos Williams explains it far better than I can:
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15541
ChildDeirdre: The part at the end of this love poem that most helps:
"My heart rouses thinking to bring you news of something
that concerns you and concerns many men. Look at what passes for the new.
You will not find it there but in despised poems.
It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.
Hear me out for I too am concerned
and every man who wants to die at peace
in his bed besides."