The Work of Art

Is basketball an art? What about cooking? Gardening? Telling a good story or joke? Or even making a spot-on, sarcastic quip?

Art entices, invites, captures and holds us in a place we want or need to be -- a place of assured enrichment. Art is our reminder that we must feel in order to be whole. It never embarrasses, shames or threatens, though it may rebuke or unveil what is hideous. Art affirms our dignity, acknowledges our vulnerability and fully appreciates our potential; it enlightens our conscience, informs our perspective and masterfully demands that we be complete, lacking nothing. Art, then, is an expression of longing, of love.  

Struck

i have been affected

by the Poem

seeing in it so clearly

truths

previously invisible.

unless a Poem unveils what’s hidden

it’s just

words.