Thank you to Editor Mark Antony Rossi for publishing my poem in the October issue of Ariel Chart.

Photo Courtesy of Ariel Chart

Art, Not Art

 

Art provides beauty and thought,

a success due to proper use of the senses.

Art seeks new answers to old questions,

seeks the strength of philosophies.

Art offers creativity,

carving patterns from our heads onto physical media,

without insolent form.

Art floods us with perception and charm 

given by beauteous people.

 

Art puts forward the allure of the real world,

offers honesty that can be imitated by we who breathe,

rotates all into loveliness and truth as lasting legends.

 

A lack of art hurts the globe.

A broad knowledge base lacking in artistic spirit

is superficial and self centered,

ignores the gradients of the soul,

oversimplifies good moral questions.

Picture the world

where discoveries are spurned,

devices are only used for conquest

and destruction.

 

Insanity, creativity,

both exercise the imagination,

and while many artists

have had their sanity questioned,

insanity without an artful heart lacks poetry,

presents an unbecoming swindle of the mind.

 

Express yourself through splendor.