Furniture inspiring poetry

After being inspired by poetry to design furniture I didn't think I would be inspired the other way around. A few years back I designed this sculptural book stand and was asked to carve a phrase on the stem of the stand. The phrase I thought of was "The truth is found in seeing every angle" The other day I wrote a poem inspired from this.

Truth is found in seeing every angle

Truth is found in seeing every angle
But skill is needed to understand the tangle
Of view and ideas from entrenched position
Great wisdom is needed for such a mission

If we are to escape the slavery view
Discernment like Solomon we need too
looking past the veneer of common belief
Propaganda has deceived us like a common thief

To look behind the pillars of our fair land
We may find skeletons we didn't plan
To deal with the legacy of broken sale
That caused corporate hope to stumble and fail

What can be done to bring newness of life
To ride us of tyranny, poverty and strife
Great dreams of a utopia free of sin
All empires and war thrown in the bin

Can we truly respect each other
so we can embrace them as a brother
Even if we completely disagree
There's room enough so we can all live free.

Poetry inspiring furniture

A few years back I took part in a project where poets and crafts people teamed up to be inspired from each others work. I make the round table in sycamore which was inspired from a line in a poem about hollow boilersuits flaping on a clothes line. I developed a way to stop natural shaped logs from spliting by drilling through the centre of the log and therefore helping the wood to dry more evenly. It means that the smaller sections of timber found in Shetland could be used in furniture and not just for firewood.