Dam Sluice
Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem
Acts 9: 18
Some people, many maybe, think it hard
To cause a poem (or a painting just
As much). They think the challenge is a sard
Too difficult to cut, not knowing lust
To force a work of art defeats the dare.
If eyes turn, look around, no scales upon
Them, poems, paintings, sculptures will forbear
Inaction. Art will stream; that breast be drawn;
La Grand Jatte then appear on canvas; oil
Or watercolor; or a villanelle
Or sonnet stanza will be born, no toil,
Not really, scarlets, shapes like amarelle.
