I enjoyed last week's Alberto Rios poem so much that I decided to share another this week. "On Gathering Artists" is an ode, a celebration, a pondering, a question, and an answer.
On Gathering Artists
by Alberto Ríos
Who does a job well, and very well—
These are the artists, those curious
Lights.
We are cobblers of the song
And barkers of the carnival word,
We are tailors of the light
And framers of the earth.
We fish among the elements
And hunt the elusive green in gray and blue.
We drink forbidden waters
And eat an invisible food.
In this time of electronic-mail and facsimile
Conversation, we send as our voice
The poem, the bridge, the circuit, the cure
....
Read the rest here, at Poets.org and revel in these lines from the next stanza:
How easy to spend a day writing a poem,
How hard to spend a life writing a thousand.
and
Who knows what to make of us?
and
... a tip of the hatTo us, as we go about
The drumming of our stars.
Oh, just be sure to go read the whole thing. It's short and you'll be so pleased you did. Especially if you are a "cobbler of the song."
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Jan at Bookseed Studio is hosting the Poetry Friday roundup this week.
Photo credit: Victor Dompablo
