There are many who have the proclivity
To claim art has no real objectivity
And it’s true, but it seems rather trivial
To condemn as not-real the convivial
Tag: Aesthetics
Tiles
Entering for the first time, we saw a room, big and new, that smelled of newness and spare furniture; its most conspicuous feature was a series of brightly colored tiles covering most of the back wall. These followed no pattern my eyes could make out, but I was fascinated by them: it was as though, even then, my heart knew that art itself resides in the stories we imagine as much or more as any story explicitly told.
Is That A Work of Art?
She asked me, “So —
Is that a work of art?”
I said I thought it was,
Most certainly.
She said, “It’s broken —
Even kind of random –“
“But broken’s beautiful
To those
Who see”
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beauty is its own excuse
in jeweled
patterns, colors all,
a stopping place for druther —
for beauty is its own excuse,
it really needs
no other