Poetry Within Art
Poetry phrases within art …
With clenched fist and passions robust,
a poet grabs a hand filled with words,
and throws them vehemently onto paper,
until the mound of words and letters
appears as matted barbed-wire.
He looks pensively through the mound,
seeking the form within it,
and begins, with chisel and hammer,
to cut away the excess, the superfluous,
to find the purposeful words and phrases within.
Punctuation a cut of chisel’s edge,
and a rasp to smooth out blemishes,
until words find their comrades, oblige,
melding into forms of meaning,
abstraction forged into reason,
syntax pulled tightly to possession.
Beauty beckons form
and graded paper smooths each edge and crevice,
words into sequence, melodic undulations
of rhyme and meter, sway and canter,
and the smoother it becomes, the words begin to sing.
Once rendered this beauteous form
transforms to ink, and spreads upon the white parchment,
word by word, phrase by phrase, stanza by stanza,
until in glistening ink a poem is born,
each aspect of an artist’s soul imbued.
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Tony,
You amaze me. I can see you doing exactly what you described, and the finished project has been beautifully hand-carved. Thanks for another brilliant piece of work.
Thanks Bill, glad you appreciate my efforts. Take care and appreciate your kind words.
Being the artist you are Tony, you chiseled your way to this poets world. Like a symphony, guided by the maestro’s delicate wand, you weave magic with your chisel and mallet. I can see the chunk’s of black toiled late night dried up ink, being chiseled by your hand. Working industriously throughout the late night to carve words of perfection. Nicely done poet. As always your art is perfectly tuned to all senses.
A slightly different take with this one Vincent, but glad you liked it; its always good to change tact and reinvent the wheel. Cheers!