Fairy Muse

An ekphrastic poem

“Ariel” or “A fairy sitting on top of a tree” (1915) by Maud Tindal Atkinson Public Domain via Picryl.

Sprouting to heaven from the nebulous womb of the sacred Hawthorn tree, birthing into a scintillating world of jagged cliffs engulfed in celestial radiance, yearning for mortality, our fairy muse emerges

emerald-jade wings basking in the iridescent sapphire sky — her incipient ascent lucid with hope as sunrays spin her hair to golden locks divine — nimble nymph that she is, seeking love