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ArtistWater Color Painting in the style of Edward Robert Hughes of Fairies with different and various facial expressions dressed in elaborately embroidered gilded sparkling translucent gossamer smocks and two matching large and small beautiful translucent wings attached to their back all gathered at a market fair a fair, moss covered river bank, soft moonbeams, light mist, forest, glittering nebulas, tiny wildflowers, ferns, baskets of berries, baskets of apples, tiny multicolored scraps of woven translucent material threaded with gold, baskets of gold bubbles of various sizes, baskets of colorful spotted mushrooms, baskets of tiny golden flutes, baskets of glittering sparkling shiny silver bells, dancing fairies in the distance 1600s, Arthur Rackhan, Monet, Edward Robert Hughes
Poem by
Florence harrison
The fairies hold a fair, they say,
Beyond the hills when skies are grey
And daylight things are laid away.
Very strange their marketing,
If we could see them on the wing
With all the fairy ware they bring.
Long strings they sell, of berries bright,
Wet wind-fallen apples light
Blown from the trees some starry night.
Gay patches, too, for tattered wings,
Gold bubbles blown by goblin things,
Mushrooms for the fairy rings.
Fine flutes are there, of magic reed,
Whose piping sets the elves indeed
A-dancing down the dewy mead.
These barter they for bats and moles,
Beaten silver bells and bowls,
Bright from the caverns of the Trolls.
And so they show, and sell and buy,
With song and dance right merrily.
Until the morning gilds the sky.
FAERIES AND MUSHROOMS
WHAT’S THE CONNECTION?
WELL, WHEN THE POEM MENTIONS…
…long strings of
BERRIES Bright…
THIS REMINDS ME …
of seeds because berries
ALWAYS have SEEDS,
and so do mushrooms
as the
SPORES
of mushrooms
can be
considered
the SEEDS
of its
fruiting body.
WHEN THE POEM MENTIONS…
Mushrooms for the fairy rings…
IT REMINDS ME THAT…
MUSHROOMS
appear
MAGICAL
in that they are
beneficial
for such a
multitude
of things.
SEE
7 ways how mushrooms
can help to SAVE the PLANET
– Paul Stamets –
They are highly medicinal
and nutritious.
WHEN THE POEM MENTIONS…
Beaten silver bells and bowls, bright from the caverns of the trolls
The bells and bowls
remind me of the
shape of some
mushroom caps
which on the
underside can vary
from porous to gills
to some that even
have teeth!
All are for the purpose
of spore production
and dispersal.
WHEN THE POEM MENTIONS
Caverns
THIS REMINDS ME …
of the misconception
that mushrooms grow
only in the dark.
In actuality
they require
ambient light.
Meanwhile, just so you know, all of the fairy poems
shared were gathered (some written by me) a few years prior
to discovering Paul Stamets and his mushroom work. At the time
I was trying to connect, especially children, to nature with
a bit of fun by incorporating fairies, along with nature activities.
Then, when I discovered Paul Stamets and his work with mushrooms,
I thought in a way, I had discovered a holy grail to many of our environmental
problems, which has always been a core interest of mine.
This influence from Paul Stamets began around 2010 to the present.
However, because of one interview which I thought was not
in his usual style of being straight upfront, in fact, appeared to be
over-acting, I began to question the ground upon which he stood.
The following link I think gives a fair assessment and balance to all
in his regard, so perhaps, in the end, we may not throw out the baby
with the bathwater.
https://seismicspore.com/paul-stamets-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/
