February 26, 2018
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week is the artist.
Today’s poem is about the artist’s motivation.
I welcome comments on my poems at
https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
There is no better painting than a sunrise,
Nor colors more majestic than its glow,
Nor canvas so immense that it might outsize
The spectacle that every day we know.
There is no love as moving as our own love,
Nor character as complex as our own,
Nor ecstasy as sweet as we have known of
Since puberty, though chaste till we were grown.
Why should we turn from windows to a wall
On which there hangs a mere interpretation,
When just outside the colors of the fall
Surpass the most inspired imagination?
Like God writ small, the artist would say, “Light!”
And eternity comes forth from night.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/ther42.html.
For more philosophical poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html
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This week’s theme: The Artist
February 26: There Is No Better Painting than a Sunrise
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