Next Poem

Next poem challenge..

I am writing a poem about visiting places in our beautiful America that most will likely never see. I suppose we all are much more mobile than most Americans. However, there are some sights even we will never see. As an artist that is sad to me. However, in your mind you can make them so much more because that is also God's creation. Therefore, just as the early American artists glamourized the American west, because it was out of reach. I am going to do the same thing, because gas prices are cramping that dream in the 21st century. Therefore, I want to again romanticize an America that some will never see. A 35MB photograph will not do. Maybe in the 22nd century we will have high speed rail and we can go back to photographs.

My accompanying painting will be called Cezanne Falls. It is really Angel falls in Yellowstone Park. I call it Cezanne Falls, because I would have really like to meet him, but even low gas prices can't make that happen.

Therefore, the poem is about creating beauty in your mind, for others to share, so that we don't have to be sad about never actually experiencing.