August 11, 2017
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. This week’s theme is artistic creativity.
Today’s poem is a number poem about art as a lasting
imitation of a fleeting reality.
I welcome comments on my poems at
https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Sing of the sweet urge to capture beauty,
Endeavoring to pluck it from the stream.
Vivid though the moment might appear,
Embrace it and it is no longer here,
No less remote than a remembered dream.
The artist, though, creates a lasting copy.
Years pass, and yet the grace retains its gleam.
Each work of art gives form to a perception,
Imitating what the artist sees,
Granting lasting life to a conception,
Having caught the moment as it flees,
Then framed it to fence off its finities.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/sing10.html.
For more philosophical poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html
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This week’s theme: Artistic Creativity
August 9: Sing of Passions Greater than the Self
August 10: For Every Moment You’re Immersed in Beauty
August 11: Sing of the Sweet Urge to Capture Beauty
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