Hello and happy February! Welcome to the month of love and also to my monthly feature – ‘Name that Vase’.
For those who are new to this feature, ‘Name that Vase’ is where you can suggest a name, create a story, poem or prose for this raku pottery vase. Consider this your chance to be inspired, a writing prompt or a creative cue. You can check out a ‘Name that Vase’ post to see how it works, or if you are feeling nostalgic, you can check out the first ever ‘Name that Vase’ post that started what has now become a monthly tradition for our blog and readers.
Back in Name That Vase land, this month we have a very special vase for your naming, but first we must announce last month’s winner Doree with their name and poem. Congratulations Doree!
Antediluvian
Sunken treasure
Speak to me
Your shell is cracked
But the shape
Stands clear
Beauty
Be it in the eye of the beholder
Your glamor
Does not stammer
As you waltz your waltz with me
Take a bow
A fleeting moment
And see
Here is our vase for February:
Please add what you think the name should be for our February vase and any associated poetry or story in the comments below. I look forward to reading all your great ideas.
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Those crack-marks give it the look of something old, Chinese maybe. But my knowledge of pottery is insufficient to go any further.
Thanks for youc comment! I hope you have a great day 🙂
Naturally corky …. beautiful piece ❤️
So glad you like it. Have an awesome day!
Ancient autumn leaves
Wrapped around the body,
Veined with copper wires,
Hidden depths and mystery
Myth and glamour
Clamour for your beauty
Hail fine work
A vessel of love and clay
Call it Helios
Sun and fire.
A lovely name! Thank you for your submission!
For me the vase is about autumn. My language is not english, so I ty to find the word. something like gourge? it is something you can eat and it grows from the land on a plant that places them on the floor. a bottle gorge? But it is a source of happy eating, healthy eating.
I think you may mean a gourd? And I see what you mean!
Phallic wabisabi? 😂
Thanks for your submission! I hope you have a great day, Daisy!
Thank you for your THANK yous lol
Well, it’s February and Valentine’s is coming … February always makes me think of the heart.
Your vase made me think of a heart – while it gets cracks from breaking on occasion, it can be mended, have strength and be beautiful…
So I dunno… maybe the “Mended Heart”?
✌️❤️
Thank you for your entry! I hope you are having an excellent day.
Thank you! I love that you ask people for what they see in your work… which is beautiful btw.
I am having a nice day thank you… and hope you are as well. 😊
Old Soul
For a time I held you
Though you could not be kept.
The rush of your leaving
Left me cracked in ways that cannot
Be seen.
Do not mourn for me, for I
Know what it is to embrace
The deep where the fear of
Desire resides.
Thank you for submission, I do like this one!
L’apres midi dore- the golden afternoon- the beautiful crackaleur pattern with the tawny gold color reminds me of looking into the tree tops on a spectacular hike last October- October 29 to b exact I think 🤔
yes, the leaves of fall, I can see what you mean. Thank you for your submission!
Reginald
or Reggie for short? 🙂 Thanks for your submission!
Sure! You’re welcome.
Congrats on the podcast!!! My name this vase submission is Resilience Rising
I do love the alliteration in this one! Thank you for your entry!
The vase is I dreamcicle orange color that takes me back to amusement parks. Some had pink things and others had dreamsicles…the dreamsicles remind me of your orange creamy vase that resembles calcite…I have a heart shaped Calcite stone that my brother gifted me at Christmas. I shall propose the name Dreamsicle Calcite vessel of
…the Dreamsical Vessel! It shall hold beauty and beasts and feel love for both…To The Dreamsical Vessel! xoxo :🍊)
I can see what you mean of the orange being reminiscent of the orange creamsicle! Now I am thinking of summer!
Thank you for your entry!
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…the beauty of the scars…
In all our wounds remains the memory of our fragility and our beauty.
They leave us with scars that not destroy us but become the sign of our victory …
Lovely writing, thank you for your submission!
This is a wonderful creation. My offering is ‘The Gourd’ 😉
A delicious name to be sure. Thank you for your entry!
Thank you! It’s time for March now I see 😉
Beautiful colour
Thank you! I do love orange, as it seems you may as well.
I do indeed.
Another beautiful work of art. I see clearly the references to cork and leaves but I was struck by another, less classical and more contemporary inspiration. The marks on the vase struck me as routes and roads, major and minor. I nominate the vase name to be WAZE AROUND. I really enjoy your blog.
Thank you, Walter! I understand what you mean, it could be seen as an aerial view of the roads. Thank you for entry and kind comment!
🤗 I’m so honored! Thank you! I love this new vase too! It’s very much like the tiny vase you sent me with your book ❤️. I’ll be back to participate 😊.
Thank you Doree! Always great to see you here in the comments. I hope you are having a great day so far!
😊 it’s a beautiful day here, hope yours is the same ☀️!
It’s beautiful color reminds of the sun. My name for the vase is Marmalade.
A tasty choice to be sure! Thank you Eugenia!
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The leaves turn golden, dry and crackling underneath my feet, as I walk down the path to my father’s grave, unsure of what I seek.
Very vivid. Thank you for your entry, Angela!
“Papyrus of Love ”
Shade of the ancient scrolls
Desert heart cracked and thirsting
Love letters torn into shattered pieces
The sands of time fill an empty vessel and broken love comes together again as one
Thank you Jacquelyn for your entry! I hope your day is going great
The Betty Davis…the raw funktress that was once married to Miles Davis not the actress.
ooh fun! thanks for your submission!
Bema
My ears are full
With the breath you breathe
Sweet and gentle
The summers swollen sun
Placing life in my arms
Feeling the warmth you give
Knowing
Somewhere inside
There can be
No better place to hide
Lovely! Thank you for taking the time to write and submit this, Doree!
You’re welcome ♥️. You always inspire me, thank you too 😊
“Shape of the Desert”
Thank you Mia!
It’s very lovely, “Wrinkles of Time”
Thank you for submission, Tiffany! Have a great day!
“Ioskus” 😄
neat name! Thank you for sharing it Rudra!
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https://theopensocietyorg.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/dryad-in-oak.jpg
Dryad
colors dance, blinding the eye
yet there she sits, in the branches
I love her as I always do
“I am the little acorn,
who becomes the mighty oak!”
I call to her, or at least her vision
in spirit, she smiles
turns her head and giggles
the woods alive
with the smell of her body
and warmth of her sound
Sif’s golden fields
Hecate’s magic charms
then ever so slowly
one by one,
leaves dry,
detach,
and fall
to the ground
leaving my
heart buried
in a mound
of crackling papers
the Dryad
Have you seen her?
https://theopensocietyorg.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/dancing_oak_dryad___fall_yellow_by_zeitspuren.jpg
Thank you for the enjoyable way to spend a Saturday morning. Music. Poetry. Art.
Unfortunately the formatting didn’t work, so here it is more better:
http://osociety.org/2020/02/08/dryad/
Thank you for sharing it! I am glad it added to your Saturday!
Glazed to sustain your character
Life looks upon you and penetrates a shine
Highlighting definition in your beauty
Taking a beholder into the depths of inspiration
Shining Glory
This is lovely, thank you for the submission, Astrid!
The “Thirsty Land”
Wait for the showers
Of promise much like
My lonely heart
Thank you Shaily for your entry!
There is light and depth and regalness. Uhura
Thank you Colleen, Uhura is a beautiful name
I guess nobody liked my first entry so I am trying again. I would name it A Unfinished Song. The color of the vase reminds me of old sheet music which has yellowed and cracked over time.
First look at the vast and I was reminded of the barren land and drought. I would rather look at this vase as a Pitcher (Water bottle) and would have named it “Drought Reliever” weird I know but only this came to mind 😉
Hi Nilesh! That makes sense. Thanks for your entry!
Hahaha you are very kind my friend 🙂
The vase is named Gaia and the vase is The Earthen Womb. Buried over the ages deep in the earth, she surfaces on occasion carrying a find meant to be unearthed and ‘discovered’. As she journeys upwards and reaches the light of day, rising through the layers of civilizations, she ripens and swells, eventually cracking from the weight of her burden. As her moment of discovery approaches after she has arrived at her point of ‘discovery’, she cracks open to release her treasure. Through the crevices of this maternal vessel, a lost statue, a lost relic, a lost message from the untold history of humanity is brought forth to be revealed. An ancient artifact meant to be revealed and understood is released from the vessel. This lost statue, the lost relic that Gaia carried through the layers of earth history emerges through Gaia’s cracks, rolling onto the soil, awaiting its discovery. Gaia’s journey upwards to the surface and the discovery of the treasure delivered in her ceramic womb were written in the stars. And Gaia, the earthen womb vessel, after her labor, sinks back into the earth to heal her cracked surface and to tend to the buried secrets of humanity once again, eventually to surface with another treasure once again meant to be found and hopefully understood.
Quite the story! Thank you for your submission and I hope you have a great day!
CORRUGATION
Thank you for your entry, Lucie! Have a great one!
Frozen Sundrop
Watching the rays
of golden sun
he thought of ways
it would be fun
to freeze a drop
then use the prop
to show love’s glow
lovely! Thank you for sharing this!
I love this a lot ❤️❤️❤️ It’s very inspiring and nice ☘️. It is a great honor to be in your blog 🙇
Thank you, Vincent! It is wonderful to have you here and I hope you are having an excellent day!
It’s my pleasure to be here.
And yeah, I’m having a great day thanks. What about you?
Frozen Sundrop
Watching the rays
of golden sun
he thought of ways
it would be fun
to freeze a drop
then use the prop
to show love’s glow
I think you may be thinking of a gourd! I can see what you mean!
“Ancestor Turtle Speak”