To Be Consumed by Something More than Beauty

March 2, 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 a number poem about the experience of artistic creation.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

To be consumed by something more than beauty,

Holding in one's hand the sense of all,

Innocent of self, of interest pure,

Reaching for a grace that will endure,

The fragments of a light beyond the wall

Yielding truth with neither rage nor pity;

Seized by inner craftsmen, skilled and sure,

In reverent abandon, ruthless awe,

X-ing out the fruits of one's own fancy . . .

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/tobeco.html. For more philosophical poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: The Artist

February 26: There Is No Better Painting than a Sunrise

February 27: Fifty-Five3

February 28: Forty-Five6

March 1: Fifty-Four3

March 2: To Be Consumed by Something More than Beauty