is it art is it therapy
is an overlay ever trendy
must pulse art engage
at a glance with ghost
audience does guest
audience need to perceive
need to work feel think
to perception understand
what rests before in front
of them stirring emotions
or not producing indifference
all astute answers state
art needs to do nothing
art does not need to do anything
at rest an inanimate product
critic might imply an artist
due to hand creator responsibility
must strive for reaction required
art itself at bedrock is but an activity
recap is it art is it therapy
is an overlay ever trendy
artistic aesthetic veneer
applied bias common still
sweeping visa conception
a perspective pill luxury
a panorama candy reserved
for cult western consumption
beyond rules regulated discourse
remains raw action simple doing
Terence George Craddock (Afterglows Echoes Of Starlight)
Copyright © Terence George Craddock
ust do it! Take it if it touches your life, or leave it. Maybe it's a song sung while drawing from a well. Maybe it's irreducible. Maybe its a self-offering having common ground with prayer.
I wrote the poem 'Transitory Indelible Date Stamps Or Flesh Brands', inspired by my reply to a comment made on my poem 'Welcome To Art Class: Perspective Pill Luxury', by the poet Denis Mair and dedicated to Denis Mair.
so much which touches our lives, in ephemeral moments is transitory, impressions may be indelible or stamp cast clay in enduring images forms; songs unsung may echo eternally in wells of silence, seen from deep well deeps stars shine in daytime sunshine but not on overcast cloudy rainy days
I wrote the poem 'Small Town Can Do', inspired by my reply to a comment on my poem 'Welcome To Art Class: Perspective Pill Luxury', by the poet Denis Mair and dedicated to Denis Mair. My original comment disappeared.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Terence Craddock 16 April 2023 I came from a small town rural area, in a time and culture where 'Just do it! ' was a given. If something needed doing it was done. Now they bring in excessively paid experts with no local knowledge of the area, to make decisions years in the making, often not wise.