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Create like a Child

"My drawing was not a hat. It was a boa          
constrictor digesting an elephant."
         
~ Le Petite Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry          
         
I.          
         
When Art first called my name          
I thought I was dreaming, lying          
in the middle of a field in England          
barely tapping adolescence.          
         
As I grew, critics demanded to know          
how that was considered Art;          
why it was worth so much when          
their three-year-old could draw it.            
         
No answer was adequate          
to convey an inner recognition          
it was Art in its pure essence          
because Words didn't exist.          
         
Adults teach children to withhold          
Truth more than peer pressure;          
compression squeezes expression          
from a personal Work in Progress.          
         
One day I knew I'd write about it.        
       
II.          
         
There’s a time in a Poet’s life when          
a blank page becomes the wait;          
the need for Words to manifest          
amid the emptiness of Being.          
         
A Work in Progress so becoming          
personification couldn't convey          
nor imagery Create an acceptance          
to Surrender beyond Knowledge.          
         
From Patience comes the Source          
of Words, the beginning of Being,          
the beauty of interpretation vibrating          
past ego onto the waiting page;          
         
Connection with the Known Unknown          
activated by the conception of Art.          
Critics were right in one accord:          
a three-year-old can do that.          
         
In a materialistic age of embellishment          
it was Art's sole purpose to begin with.          
       
That's the day you write about it.    
~          
         
     
Inspiration for completion:      
     
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poems/272655-work-in-progress/      
                
Written by Ahavati
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