Nude Prayer (Transparency)

Nude Prayer

Transparency

      (i)

Nude kneeling like

seated on its footsoles

on marble pedestal

its hands meet in

praying gesture

It's looking sternly forwards

towards the frozen pond

from next to Hallargardur

Park where empty trees

Are decorated by having

their branches neatly shown

by rim of yellow lights

like elaborating on

Christmas trees

When sun blows silent blazes

on environs and horizons

and the unadorned trees

proclaim their range of mazes

of branches and twigs

like winterly foliages

of transparency.

      (ii)

Prayer stands out like a child

just in between a pair of

her embracing hands

Yielding comfort to mother

as sole protection against

cold of wind and ice.

 

     (iii)

Metaphors add up and multiply

don't let them distract and divide.

Xanadu (Ofsteinarrfame) for Blogspot (April 2022)

(Thanks to 'Nude Prayer' ​outdoors of National Gallery of Iceland and Einar Jónsson 1939 'Prayer' in  Jónsson Sculpture Garden)