I seem to be on a poetry bender this week. Here’s today’s effort:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why For Art Thou?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By Melanie Anne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don\u2019t create for fortune,
If I did I\u2019ve surely failed,
I don\u2019t create for fame,
If I have , I\u2019ve been derailed<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not for recognition,
On the vast historic shelf.
Others have oft told me
I should art just for myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yet that is not from whence
My Muse arises \u2013 no!
Not from what I want to draw:
But that which draws me so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I see a scene, I hear a thought,
That beckons to be known.
It chooses me to tell its tale,
\u201cRight now, do not postpone!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have no choice, I have no voice
But that which I\u2019ve been given.
I cannot rest a moment,
When I have so been driven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The scene will set, the concept fade,
If not protected now.
It\u2019s singular existence,
Depends upon my brow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Furled in concentration,
Twisted in despair,
I squeeze the vice upon my mind,
And flail about midair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The hour-glass runs empty,
The spirit sputters out.
But in that tragic moment,
My psyche wheels about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And just before the vision
And the spirit it contains
Have vanished from the earth,
They transform within my brains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I become an avatar,
A spokesman for the dead.
A poor and tawdry medium
Dim eyes and tongue of lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yet through my swollen faculties,
Bruised and battered all,
A dark, imperfect image,
As I quietly recall,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The thing that once revealed itself,
Though now it is no more,
It lives again in oil or sound,
A window or a door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Its fleeting spark departed,
But captured in its prime,
It\u2019s meaning not forgotten,
Shining bright in prose or rhyme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don\u2019t create for fortune,
If I did, I\u2019ve surely failed,
I don\u2019t create for fame,
If I have, I\u2019ve been derailed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don\u2019t create for others,
And never for my heart,
I do it for the spirits,
So they live on in art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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