René Magritte

‘There is more than what one knows’  M.

Memories are water, deep, brooding and primal
with eyes closed, seeing  another way

who knows 
who

 The crow perches 
 holds the question

The thought is the image – apple thought, cloud,   grey 
everyman  
brush – paints ideas  . . . reality is senseless 
as is god  

Time folds into itself 
it is all here,   from eternity,  forever  

Familiar is no longer 
as  pipe is not  pipe

the bird perched on top of the cage 
still the question

The dove of the sky  holds the clouds 
with hundreds of other I gaze at gazing

no word . . .  no

My daughter, laid low with a broken ankle 
asks to live vicariously through me 

and seeing it through her eyes is seeing it twice 
doubley asking the question

 

         

Magritte’s trademark images of clouds, seascapes, bowler-hatted men,  pipes, apples. 
Some complained theat his work is anti -painting  – cultivated for its unreality and strangeness.

Surrealist painter and provocateur René Magritte  created some of the  most memorable images of the 20th century.
In a way with his slanted way of seeing he reveals the mystery and poetry embedded within seemingly
ordinary objects and everyday settings.