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This picture by Tresore Prada Hawkins sent me off an futile Google quest to identify a female poet who wrote “inspirational poems” for greeting cards because this picture looks so much like the greeting cards my mother would seek out, all with poems from this particular three-word name poet, all with soft-focus, idealized scenes, some with people, many with flower-infused landscapes. When I saw it, I just thought of my mother and how much she would love this picture. And if you have any idea who the poet who graced so many inspirational greeting cards in the 70s and 80s, let me know. It’s driving me nuts!
Now, Mom would definitely not get a greeting card with the next one, click here:
While my mom was no John Ashcroft prude, she probably would never send a greeting card with this picture. I thought this was an interesting mashup of Monet and Millais. The waterlilies are richly colored and full of light like many of Monet’s Water Lilies and unlike Millais’ Ophelia, is in the shade of trees.
And then there is this striking and romantic picture, “Poppy Fields.” I love the colors and the brilliance of the sun. It’s a lovely picture. I love how she exaggerates the sun with little motes of sunlight glimmering like fairy lights.
Tresore Prada Hawkins’ photostream is all about capturing a romantic, idealized beauty. The stories suggested by the pictures are very different, from different eras, different cultures, and different parts of the world, but they all envision a joyful world of beauty found in nature and by people who are in and of nature, outside. Even when they are eating, they’re outside in the fresh air, enjoying clean air sweetened by fields of flowers.
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So this has been driving me nuts since yesterday and a friend finally came through for me. Helen Steiner Rice was the poet on the greeting cards.
Posted by: Cajsa | Thursday, May 20, 2021 at 02:32 PM