Perceive Enjoy Art Life Questions Poem by Terence George Craddock

hello friend welcome
time to perceive discuss
enjoy art life questions
ask what is art to artists?

art is as wide universal
or as narrow as artistic
imagination shutter lens
therefore fashion select?

framed themes?
it is slices of life
usually focusing
on snapshot images

approaching
commonplace
topics aspects
pertaining

to life society
cultural capsules
time split images
still life put

in viewfinder focus
under microscope
mind slide meaning
mined for answers

examined
appreciated
intensified
loved

which caught
minds inner eye
written for few
who see listen perceive

written for many
who whim enjoy
art kaleidoscopic
life questions

enjoy memorable
minds perspective eye
written for poetic few
who see listen perceive

or multitude many
who eager enjoy
art merge life
pending questions

paint mural pictures
sculpture model events
arrange collage assemblages
third eye sight perceives

plot lives
all individual lives
must embrace
tragedy comedy events

life pearl events
tiny splinter sand grains
pierce under clamp shells
produce tear pain pearls

dive deep dark waters
gather glistening pearls
set in design artistic settings
silver gold platinum frames

take life tragedy experiences
remove dirt clean off ugly dross
mount glassy glossy shiny lustrous
radiant pain purchased pearls

beauty pain purchased brought
wisdom deciphered experiences thought...
through reflected upon distilled
into fertile clarity conceptions perceived...

alas themes traumatic
weave pierce shred hectic
normality rising falling cyclic
in events global struck climatic

all art prolific
must range time include
spectrum personality variables
movement mass land consequences

lives will enfold
normality conflict blessings
physical phenomenon systems
distribution energy resource emitted

prime energy radiant source
industrial industry inefficiencies
will politic raw global warming crisis
rip incandescent government wavelengths

arranged in resource
grabbing protection schemes
as refugees flee inundated areas
create catastrophic imminent survival needs

industry cranking
clock ticking ticking
ice melting melting melting
atmospheric thinning

huge hole in ozone layers
over Antarctic threatens comprises
summer cyclic all future weather extremes
eighty percent of world populations all coastal cities

shall be erased drowned
in continent shrunk slim survival
margins as new redrawn maps global
show floods droughts crops livestock deleted

it was avoidable
it is still avoidable
stop war on terrorism mythic
start war on real waves graphic


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