Art For Beauty's Sake...
There's an art school down the street,
I pass it periodically,
Wondering if my words belong,
I contemplate on the tile work adorning the door,
Some thing beautiful as I walk the street at night,
The ghostly-empty night street,
Wondering who the young artist was,
Wondering how they chose the pattern and the tile.
But then I look again,
Knowing it's simply beautiful,
Adorning a dark world that needs so badly the light.
I think that's answer enough.
AquarianM
By: Daniel A. Stafford
(C) 09/12/2012
There's an art school down the street,
I pass it periodically,
Wondering if my words belong,
I contemplate on the tile work adorning the door,
Some thing beautiful as I walk the street at night,
The ghostly-empty night street,
Wondering who the young artist was,
Wondering how they chose the pattern and the tile.
But then I look again,
Knowing it's simply beautiful,
Adorning a dark world that needs so badly the light.
I think that's answer enough.
AquarianM
By: Daniel A. Stafford
(C) 09/12/2012
Love is the heart's bridge - it's connection to all other souls.
Loving words can work miracles.
A note on the bad attitude rampant in society that is giving the whole country far too much grief:
Everyone needs beauty in their world, it makes life much better and lifts the spirits. I'm a firm believer that even the most humble places should be given the gift of beauty. Making things too utilitarian without that consideration prolongs and promotes oppression of the spirit. Denial of beauty is a form of abuse. Witness the abject failure of the Chicago housing projects of the 1950's that had to be torn down in the early 2000's - and inspired Elvis to accept "In The Ghetto" for one of his greatest hits and humanitarian gestures.
Concentrated psychic depression needs no special powers, all it takes is a punitive attitude on the part of the "generous givers" - if they had made those places beautiful and free of disrespect, they would have given people a haven in hard times and lifted many of them up, instead of attacking their self-worth and bringing us ALL down. It leaves me to wonder what the alternative universe might have been like. Probably quite filled with art for beauty's sake.
The only way to engender love and peace is to give it. Even I recognize that I need to pay more attention to exactly that, as should we all.
All the best, if you work and vote for it - and that work can be a thing of beauty, too.
Dan
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