Watch him now the 'artless fool'
Full of fake expression and counterfeit cool
He paints a picture of stylish health Of illusory poise and paper wealth.
The floozies swoon and the swingers flock
While the intelligentsia stand and mock
'Its all an act' they are heard to speak
All that artful bearing and imitation chic.
So watch him now the artless fool
Popular and referenced in the student pool
His prose and accent readily heard
While the truth is kept hidden, the 'artless turd'.
30 January 2021
The prodigy has turned prodigal
Making silver spoons out of gold medals
While the hearsay deepens about clandestine meetings
I fix myself a plate of pity party, for I know nobody
I don’t even know myself
The prodigy is now pedestrian
Crossing roads without a care
And I lost track of time ages ago
In blue screens and daydreams
So I fix myself a plate of pity party, for there’s nothing else to do
Especially now that the world is broken
And I can’t find the version of myself I lost in the chaos of trying to find myself
J-ust
E-xpress
S-incere
S-tatement
A-nd
S-ay
A-rtless
L-anguage
G-enuinely
A-rticulating
D-ialect's
O-pinion
Topic: Birthday of Jessa Salgado (January 07)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Charming smiling face
Rhythm in the core of heart rests
heartless is artless
Artless Flow
The fount from earth’s natural flue
Sends white cascades to translucent blue
Crystalline Sept. 2011
An artists eye
earth brushed by
endless waves of shapes and color
contrasted variety among objects
and objectives
awestruck gaze
though wizened by life
and death
while senses reel and slacken
as the creative mind is seduced
by the passion
for both
perceptions cursed with vestal depth
to breathe deep the scent of
anemic dust, chilled by time
and a distant atmosphere
with all the mingled flavors of
stale sunshine
how torturous are the
artless obsessions
that engorge the creative
with a manic fervor
to create
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