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Poems and stories about art, fine art, painting, sculpture, artists

Artificial Intelligence

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Art & Artists, Creativity, War / April 26, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

What a marvelous thing is man
the animal that makes things
and makes things up

Behold the medicines machines and lies
Behold all the structures that he builds
to keep him warm and keep him safe

Behold the bullets and the bombs
Behold the prisons who else needs

Behold the poems and the prose
some of truth and some of pose

Tempis

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Art & Artists, Time Flies / April 21, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In the caves there are paintings
thirty thousand years old
and the Sistine Chapel has been
around for a while

In Tibet and Arizona
they paint with colored sand
a Cordon Bleu feast, beautiful
for a moment then brushed away

For those who would judge
one as better than the other
I offer a poem or a psalm
in a long-remembered book

Reading it is in column one
hearing it in column two

Or how about a whispered
I love you in the ear
is it gone ... or is it here

The Test

Audio Recordings / tagged Art & Artists, Concentration, Copper Love, Hawaii / March 27, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If you want to see an artist, here's a picture

Copper, sitting, back to a cliff
on the northernmost tip of Maui

Two hikers stop and say
What are you doing? Just sketching
Been here long? Not sure
Don't the ants bother you? What ants?
She looks to where they point
at the long column single-filing
up, acros, and over one bare let
between, then up and over the other
and down toward the red-sand cove

Red Sands Beach, Maui Hawaii

by Copper Love – Plein-air

Blooming Anyway

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Relationships / tagged Adversity, Art & Artists, Separation, Tenacity / March 14, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Stone walls do not a prison make - Richard Lovelace

Though we be apart
memory roots yet connect
and bloom in our art

Fall of the Leaf

Audio Recordings / tagged Art & Artists, Beauty / February 9, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Click here to learn more about artist Sybil Andrews

Après le Déluge

Audio Recordings / tagged Art & Artists, Genius / January 14, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When I hesitate, I do not paint.
When I paint, I do not hesitate.
- Jean-Paul Riopelle

When you paint or make love without thought
all your being comes through
Don't you sometimes in the morning wish
that you had it on a canvas to keep

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of famed Canadian artist Jean-Paul Riopelle
Click to discover more about his life and the festivities planned to honour his work

Dinner with Robert Bly

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Art & Artists / December 8, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Bly orders oysters like Hafiz and Rumi
Richest food on the menu
Swallows them whole
Offers them to all who share his table

Child of the Earth

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Art & Artists, Creation / October 29, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Bob Mud in the Brisbane flood
like God in her day builds in clay

And from the earth the child rises
a gift to our complexion

Frank Gehry Designs

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Architecture, Art & Artists, Beauty / October 19, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Frank Gehry designs buildings
that float like a poem on a string

Museums surrounding art with art
Barcelona fish feeding more than bread
Disney Music Hall hitting all the right notes

Born in Toronto
most boring and exciting city in Canada
brings the sails of Lake Ontario to the world

Imagination is the Best Decorator

Audio Recordings / tagged Art & Artists / October 15, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The happy birds
on Maud Lewis' windowsill
were not there till she painted them there

Thanks to the pen we get to hear
music behind Beethoven's shuttered ear

Smile to hear shut-in to describe
Emily Dickinson's muse and scribe

Perhaps in your house too
dreams and beauty beyond our view

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