I'll tell you a tale

Of an opera a Dane 

tiles glass concrete sails 

Sydney blue

its sight unimagined

a harbour magnificent 

always was Gadigal land 

now Bennelong point

a place of dreaming stories

ancient then modern

dreams revealing dreams

sacred dances

born on a watery stage

vast skies sand stone 

each step choreographed 

memorised passed on 

ley lines underfoot 

now pirouette 

in tiled concrete 

across all time 

every part intertwines

a magic story 

ancestor spirits 

Eora since dawn

contemporary now

ballet dances singers

symphonies mid-century 

modern art they say

the maestro Dane saw

his own choreography 

drew their lines 

sketched through space

sliced through an orange 

engineered it's own art

from merely lines 

a house rises bravo

dance sing play

a Masterpiece 

 

 

Sydney Opera House - mural panel #6

acrylic paint on linen panels (9)

ea panel 76x76cm 

overall size  2.3 x 2.3m