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‘Name that Vase – Reader’s Choice Edition’ is a friendly writing competition where we ask any of you talented writers, poets or dreamers out there who may be interested to …
Name that Vase! Here is where you can suggest a name, create a story, poem or prose for this raku pottery vase pictured below:
Please comment below with your idea for a name for this vase, and an associated snippet of writing and any comments you might have about this vase. The chosen idea will be featured on both our blog and the page for the raku vases, with a link included to your website. I am also going to send a small linocut print to the winner (if they like)
Interested in helping us select our winner? No problem! Simply like the comment with the name/story that you like. You can even like more than one!
To help get you started, you can check out more of our vases and their stories here!
Wondering about my Oprah reference? Wonder no more and start your weekend with a laugh! I hope you all have a great week, and a special thanks in advance to all who may be participate!
My head is confused, my body less so.
Starry night
Thanks for the suggestion! It is a great name for sure!
I would like to call this vase “Face of Sky” 😊
Vast as sky
Blue as sky
Limitless as sky
Free as sky
I’m the vase with a face
Gone through phases,
To get this sweet face
😊❤❤❤
Thanks for your great name idea and your prose! I hope your week is off to a great start!
I like the name Oceanna. 🙂
That name sounds like it flows well with this vase! Thanks for sharing your idea! I hope your day is going well!
Blue Infinity
Thanks so much for your suggstion! It is a beautiful name! I hope you are well!
I am!! Thank you. I hope you are also!!
I would name it Blue Bell because it reminds me of a Virginia Blue Bell flower, a native wildflower.
Thanks for the great suggestion, I can see the resemblance to the flower! I hope you have a great day! PS – I love wildflowers too!
Makes me think of a ‘Blue Booze Bottle’.
Blue Bayou
Thanks for sharing your idea! A drink, a resort, a song and now a vase! I love it 😉
This idea/comment comes from – shortproseblog.wordpress.com
It’s such a gorgeous vase. Blue like the most beautiful sky. I want to call it Maya or Maia as in ILLUSION .
Here is a senyru for this stunning vase –
they call me Blu Sky
indeed, I’ve met my purpose
a pleasure to the eye
Thank you so much for joining us again and introducing me to more of your beautiful and kind words! I hope you are having an amazing week!
My pleasure!
Title: Shattered Blue
A poem
Shattered blue
Crooked waist
Perfection made
With this vase
A kiss of sky
And curves, delight
Behold its beauty
An ode to night
Wow! I absolutely love this and would like it multiple times if I could. Truly beautiful and really captures the details of the design and finish. So thank you for sharing this and visiting! I hope you have a great week ahead!
This one for the win!
Nice poem! I like the last line, Ode to Night
Soul Catcher
Thank you so much for your idea! I hope you have a great week!
Expectant.
inside, the spark of a new idea begins to flicker and intensify
each new inspiration, a moaning wave, cracks the exterior
morphing a once symmetrical, flawless, container
into an expectant vessel, ready to be more than anyone ever imagined
(at first glance – it looks like a pregnant person – bursting with child or idea. beautiful!)
Thank you for sharing your amazing words! And guess what! That piece is going to be part of a show later this year about ‘bodies’, so your intuition is correct, and your poem is lovely. You have captured the form and the experience of the maker as well.
Thanks again for participating and I hope you are having a great week!
So awesome!! Great work! I’m excited to see the collection. Happy Tuesday 🙂
Thank you!
Blue pigeon. Similar to this in shape and color:
https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=47380&picture=pigeon
Wow you are right, there is definitely a resemblance, and that picture is kind of inspiring for me to make something new! Thank you. I hope your day is going well.
Whale
The depths of my soul come up through this clay
Spouting and twisting until the shape is right
My finger tips stop at each curve
feeling the energy flowing
In through my hands
Cracked and rough
All for this one piece
That’s held to a standard
By each one of you
Thank you for writing such a beautiful poem and I do see the whale shape for sure! I hope you are doing well and having a great day!
Thank you, you as well.
Name: Grace
This vase reminds me of the difficulties and obstacles we face in our way of life. As this vase going through a great deal of ventures in its completion to utmost beauty, so as we need to confront the ups and downs of our journey. If we succeed
Thanks so much for your name idea and your explanation. It does make a great metaphor to describe the human journey. I hope you are having a great week!
Thank you so much😻
Have a wonderful day.
If we succeed* in our odyssey we get our grace and if we failure turn up in a form of useless stuff.
What a glorious BLUE! I’m sure I’ll be able to do a poem for you…but I’ll skip the competition feature 🙂 🙂
I am glad you like the blue! I can’t
Wait to see what wonderful words you will come up with!
I’ll do my best, as always 🙂
I would like to name your vase BLUE MAGMA in memory of a great New Zealand potter Len Castle, whose work shares similarities with the pot shown.
Thank you so much for you naming idea. I am going to have to look up his work. I hope you are having a great day.
So pretty! “Blue Moon Jar”
Thank you so much for sharing your udea! I hope you have a great day!
Shining Blue Star 👑
Thank you so much for your naming suggestion! I hope you are having a wonderful week!
“The Risen Sea”
The water’s tranquillity,
When given the wings of wind,
Makes out of it
Something unimagined,
Shapes something like the risen sea.
Thank you for your name idea and that beautiful verse to go with it! I hope you are having a wonderful day!
My pleasure! Wish you a good day too.
Laguna azul (Blue Lagoon)
Haiku
Summer Thirsty Drink
Or displaying a Bouquet
This a perfect choice 💐
Thank you for you suggestion! I love it and actually it also made me think of the drink Blue Lagoon, which I have not had in quite sometime. I may need to remedy that! Hope your day is off to a great start!
Oh yes, that’s a delicious and refreshing thought 🙂 It’s just starting, thank you! Happy Tuesday to you, too!
Blue Apatite.
Your vase reminds me of this stone. It is such a beautiful colour.
Thank you for your idea for a name for the vase. I also love the colour as well and the form does look like stone! I hope you are having a great day!
This vase could be called the blue dragon. In ancient times the blue dragon was the guardian of the East in Chinese astrology. This vase has a serpentine and elegant shape.
Thank you so much for your kind comment and idea for the name! I can see the dragon shape in the vase as well now that you mention it 😉 I hope you have a good week ahead.
Thank you! Lovely pottery.
Indigo Sky
Or
Azure Dream
I prefer Indigo Sky
No reason, I just love the deep blend of colors.
Thank you so much for your ideas! I hope you have a great week ahead!
Very beautiful and exquisite Anand Bose from Kerala
Thank you so much for your kind words! I hope you are doing well!
Mind blueing! 🙂
Very punny! I hope you are having a great day!
Waltz on The Blue Danube
rhythm sails with the breeze
as the silent river flows on
music seeks its own company
floating along the ripples ease
the dance begins,the river bends
circling encircling the banks ends
lost in motion circular harmonious a
still point as dance into the dancer blends
Thank you for writing and sharing such beautiful words about this piece! I hope you are having a wonderful day!
Yes Alhamdolilah in Pakistan -enjoying the Blue Vase poetry and the music We have Blue pottery in Pakistan at a place called Hala .Really enjoyed the prompt to write Thank you
Raku Bayou
green and blue
color intense
water in depth
I think of you
Thanks so much for your name suggestion and beautiful words! I hope you are having a great week.
🙂 Have a blessed evening!
Thank you!