Restrictively Poems | Examples

Ode To Art

Art in all forms 
has a certain freedom
disallowed elsewhere; 

though art does not 
become art
without artful care – 


Art cannot be entirely
loose – recklessly scattered 

nor restrictively obtuse – 

(never obviously defined
by its implements – 
though no blossom
can blossom, if rejecting
all rudiments….

we have standard 
tools to poke and kneed;

if wind the protagonist
we blow at the reed – 

if the point a sharp object
we jab and bleed – 

for no art comes without
its blessing and injury –