Short Fine Arts Poems

John Constable’s painting The Hay Wain
given gold medal by Charles X
inspired by villages, churches,
he was a brilliant fine arts painter
from East Bergholt
who took sketching trips...

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Having grown up with Sarah Seraphin and, Tristen Temple
Toddlers at Saint Nicks preparatory praetorian school of fine arts
Precocious, their quasi's trice musketeers quid pro quo ? His prodigies....

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Once there was a man called Franklin Job
His finding “The more you sharp the easy the job”
For good drawing in pencil of doll
For rational thinking benefiting all
Bloody this guy is for fine- arts and nuts .crazy Job!...

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Distinguished author
A virtuoso I am
I’m superior
Within all of the fine arts
But now I exaggerate

Russell Sivey

Entrant into Susan Burch's "Ridiculous Self Exaggerations" contest

1/31/2012...

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The splendor of Nature
  a magnificent waterfall
miraculous wonder of life
  turn around -- a baby is tall

transposed to canvas, to print
  or even to musical instrument
pale reflections, we deem them 'Fine Arts'
  we envious creators, who yearn to take part...

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Faith 
is the fine arts 
in the imaginative institution

Faith
is life and after life
inside and outside equation

Faith
is you, he/she and me
known and unknown invention

Faith
is ancient to post-modern
insightful abortion


-June 19, 2019 Chattogram...

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Always remembered 
When life was a feather
Us greeting our pleasure 
As examples of following 

Age old places and its glory
Valued our perception 
We ruled our reasoning 
But not our sentiments 

Unforeseen needs and impression 
In our contemporary 
With fine arts of misery 
And fondness of outbreak...

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A dog in Alabama
    a snake in Tennessee
  A toucan in Alaska
    a mule in Kentucky

  Texas has its longhorns
    Colorado its buffalo
  Arizonans look up at mountains
    Montanans attend rodeos

  Every place a different pet
    and scenes to stir the heart
  Give me wide-open countryside
    Give urbanites fine arts...

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Green lush of green 
lush green is green
a leaf of language 
a branch of word 
a flagstone steps 

Heart of the earth is free, 
white flowers
Clean heart, 
fine arts literature
sketching art 
arable land 
planting gratitude

Green is nature 
cool breeze 
citing cloud 
loyal heart 
clarity of thinking 
for the future!...

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Only an oblique ray of sun
Applauded my soliloquy.
It shattered a wired window
(In a last desperate attempt
     To stay above the night rim)
As my voice echoed
Around the walls and
A phantom crowd
Remained silent.

 [First published in The Poet, Fine Arts Society, Doris Nemeth, Editor, Autumn 1980.]
June 30, 2021 Poetry Soup...

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First Degree
Then Position
Followed by a split/decision
English teacher,   bent on fiction
And proponent of proper diction

Second Degree
Master in Education
No time for any vacation
Exemplary professor of nation 
Specializing in sentence formation

Third Degree
Doctor of Fine Arts
Emphasizing music’s charms 
Especially Bach and Brahms
Lullaby, sonatas and songs...

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Desert Carnival
Yoga Phenomenal
Camel Fair
Valor Prayer
Harvest Festivals
Sea Surfing Technicals…
?
Winter starts
With ice, fine arts
Sunshine days blaze
With atmospheric haze...
?
Rainbow-colors poured
On earth-sky canvas as an accord
All five elements glitter.
As though no counterfeiter
Hillocks in immodest green
Present an ecologically rich scene
?
Thrill fills the zeitgeist
In the earth-weather tryst
?
Xing
Xanadu
...

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Laughter most cathartic is what he'll imbue
Even when faced with politics mostly askew
Wit so acerbic bound with oodles of smarts
It's not surprising he has a Masters in Fine Arts
Some find him angry and more than a bit crass
But for the kernel of truth given, he gets a pass
Life and politics comprise his comedic styling
All who listen will find his mania beguiling
Comedy has found its reigning anxiety attack
Kindly cheer, applaud, and meet Lewis Black!...

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