Ποιειν Και Πραττειν - to create and to do

Philosophy, Poetry, Literature and the Arts beyond Images

Beyond the image begins the real work

of understanding the other in time and space


Drawing by Maya Fischer

 

O, if I ever could make a funny picture

of myself, even though the lines

would be black and white,

it would be like taking a pot shot

at myself--nose like a carrot,

eyes of a coal miner,

some resemblance to a clown or simple fool

in the circus of men crowding near

the lion's cage to see the beauty queen

trapping the wild beast in me, as if a

dove hovers in my jest,

reflecting what Surrealists dream about

flying away.

And with it would go away the pain

to let muse return, smiling.

 

Hatto Fischer

27.2.2010

(Note: this poem came about thanks to what Norb Blei, that promoter of poetry in the USA, send around recently under the title "paint me picture make me poem": see 

http://illegitimateprescriptions.blogspot.com/2009/06/paint-me-picturemake-me-poem-review.html

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