A Nascent Mind Unfolding

About this poem

New York’s Briana Pu-Folkes is an adorable precocious, imaginative, bilingual four-year old granddaughter, who likes to write, tell stories, take pictures, and paint or draw pictures. Her most recent composition of December 2022, is that of her ensconced in Earth’s luscious green grass of late Autumn, as she stares admiringly above, and beholds the wonderful display of the multitude of stars that light up and decorate the firmament in preparation of the Christmastide. Briana is at peace with herself in her celestial solitude. This four-stanza unrhymed quatrain pays tribute to the heart, mind, soul, and spirit of four-year old Briana Pu-Folkes. Briana, the world is your cornucopia. This poem is also especially written, reminiscent of the English Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) who, in expressing his thoughts concerning that ‘Countree Far beyond the stars,’ declared lyrically in rhyming verse: “If thou canst but thither There grows the flower of peace The rose that cannot wither Thy fortress and thy ease.” A Pantheistic and nascent Existentialist, Shelley believed that Nature or a Divine Spirit of Beauty was an eternal force that ran through everything in human existence. It is that ‘Countree Far Beyond the Stars’ that four-year old Briana also recognizes and reaches out to in her nascent artwork. more »