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I wish that I could make people laugh. If I could, my life would improve by half. Instead of dwelling on problems so, I might become a person you’d like to know. But I might get in a pickle if I said: can I give you a tickle?

Make a space in your heart for the love of art.
Look, listen; with the art all around may your heart abound.
“What art?” I hear you say. “I see no pictures hanging, no sculptures crumbling, no friezes freezing!”
Anything that is pleasing to the senses is art: a tree, a flower, a six hit by Gower.
Try to appreciate a work of art. It takes no thought. Yet hours and hours of creative powers have made this thing.
“What thing?”
Anything.

We are God’s “works of art”.
Millions upon millions of evolutionary years God has taken to make you, my dears.
Yet I have to say after such a long time our thinking has become rather shoddy, for we are only now, just beginning, to come to terms with the body.
Let’s come to our senses, we only have five. We need to use them to stay alive:
Look, listen, touch; smell and taste. Don’t let them go to waste.

And now we come to the mind, it sometimes lags behind; and our brain can cause quite a lot of pain.
Our minds can produce innumerable thoughts, but sometimes these can get covered in dusty old cobwebs and warts!
Let’s come to our senses! We’ve only five.
Let’s use them all and be alive!

I wish that I could make people laugh. If I could, my life would improve by half.
But I might get in a pickle, if I said: can I give you a tickle!?

6 thoughts on “Art Appreciation

  1. Hi Andy and thanks for your comment. If you do decide to submit some of your own, I will be very pleased to see them.

    Dave

  2. So well read, really enjoyed listening! I remember hearing the first stanza a while ago but I love how it’s developed and there’s lots to think about there too.

    1. Many thanks for your comments Jennifer. I’m wondering if we might be suitable collaborators for a joint piece of writing sometime in the future.

      1. I would love to do some writing, I’ve been thinking about what I’d like to write about and I can’t think of anything!! So maybe collaboration would be the way forward 🙂

        1. The poem you have commented on is not yet finished, so this may be a good thing for you to add to, in your own time.

          The aim of the poem is to try to help people think about themselves a bit more carefully and to think about other selves more carefully as well! – other people.

          The first part of the poem is about the human body. It touches upon the mind but in a rather negative sense. I envisage its completeness along these simple lines:

          The appreciation of everything God has given us:
          Our bodies
          Our minds, and
          Our feelings.

          I have deliberately avoided the word “spirit” because it is difficult for us to understand, but not beyond the scope of this website, in due course.

          The first stanza has focused on the body. I think the second stanza should focus on our minds (our thoughts).

          The last section: upon our feelings.

          Good luck!

          Dave

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