For Jim, who is inspired by art while I see my shortcomings in it.




Monochromatic

"This is not exactly what I mean",

As lost for words as I've ever been;

Texture and form, shadow and light

Never quite captured in black on white;

Shades of meaning never quite as true

As Van Gogh's yellows, Picasso's blue.

 

 

(The first line is from Laura Riding's poem "The World and I")

 





Poetry by countryfog
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Written on 2011-06-09 at 18:23

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I heard Wynton Marsalis recently say, laughingly, (and I paraphrase) "it never comes out the way I intended."

That you see shortcomings in your work is inevitable and a good thing. If you didn't, it would facile. Which it is not. Shortcomings, ha! I hit the delete key on nine of ten poems I write, and the ones that survive, survive through gritted teeth.
2011-06-09


Rob Graber
A most stimulating little write!
2011-06-09