PZAG International Fine Art

melanie-anne camp

To Finland With Love 

I was not afraid when I first met you.
I did not feel your cold
Or your loneliness.
You were my coming home.
Instead, I opened my arms
To your wilderness,
And my heart,
To your beauty. 

When I walked amongst your whiteness
Passed the grasses on the lake,
And the pink granite of your rocks
I breathed in your sunshine
And let my lungs fill
With the icy glow of Winter. 

When I visited your artist’s home
I climbed some old wooden stairway
To the very top.
I closed my eyes wishing
I had been there years before,
To look out on the lake
And the Pines,

That grew so tall among the Silver Birch,
And paint like those who had gone before. 

But I will be back,
I will return to love you more
Because my heart has found you,
Another.
 beauty I can long for
And one I cannot ignore.

Melanie Anne Camp  April 2006

Painter and Botanical Illustrator, studied at Caple Manor Horticultural College under Christabel King, (Botanical Illustrator, Kew Gardens, RHS).  Exhibited in The Lancet Medical Journal 1998-2000, Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, London with The William Morris Society and The Padstow Contemporary Arts Gallery, Cornwall. Melanie lives in Newlyn and is Proprietor of PZAG International Fine Art.