Sunday, December 4, 2022

Of Art, and the Artistic Heart (new poem)

 


Of Art, and the Artistic Heart

Tim Kavi


a solemn work

there is something to see

I don't know quite yet

what will it be?


but as the notes play on

the fires of inspiration

burning perspiration

show the words that speak


they keep me awake at night

sometimes wrestling with angels

dangling across the abyss

so serious is this?

I am laughing laughing laughing

postwar blisses


on canvases of many

some are blank

and some are puny

but I will damn well say it


on a written page

a flickering screen

a dusty memory

of a forgotten sage


there is a history to be told

but most importantly

a creative burst of energy

as quantum moments unfold


I know what is seen

will be revealed

in the final scene

no longer concealed


a coherent whole

finally uttered

in the words that flowed

now uncluttered


there is only what the art

reveals, sad and contrite

happy and longing for


of words, senses, and bits

of trances

and ecstatic fits

the uttered cannot be brought back

the published is what is said

the last reel

the messy editing room

other words and images on the floor

images await for expressions more


are you a lover

or just a whore?

being or seeming

what's the score?

maybe only the artist will know


for in both cases you are

undressed before the world!


of art, and the artistic heart

of life, and limb

and pounding heart


of kisses in works of love

of meanings in the messages

concealed in stories told


of prophets shaking

peeing in the wind

of actors quaking

before the cameras roll


there is only the revealed

final work expressed

revisions done at last

where all is made manifest


you who imagines

as if an iconoclast

a historical revisionist

of things made past

speak truth if you can

that dialogue will last!


of the two made one

the collapsing waves

of art, and the artistic heart


Oh, be not forgotten

that not for a moment

lost and unbegotten

your words stand sure

it is finally clear


of art, and the artistic heart.



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