Art

Just to show a bit of a sequence of 84s, here are a few links
from one where Lawrence started us off on the theme
of "Art." Note that his first posting has "+"-signs to indicate
that he's working with stanzas rather than a single 84.


ART


This calling to be fully present
with style
one does ask to be an artist
an old chair
so many asses eased


+

art
lurks alone,
waiting
for
dawn
and the passerby's unsuspecting gaze
to fall
just before the
gasp.

*

his family comfy at home
note this madman, fated to art,
out in the storm,
waiting for a masterstroke

*

"Burning down my house is the best thing I ever did."
said the Sufi to
the World's soul
from the flames.

*

the persistence of art

we were meant to play

here we are most excellent

unwearied by all
that is not art


This goes on for another 16 links, and there are hundreds of other thematic sequences.

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My new year's resolution, as a life-long striver, was "Understanding overcoming," which turned into
a poem of aspiration yesterday, jotted down on my last wallet-carried slip of paper:

TWO WORD POEM

Overcoming
overcoming