giddyup modern art
if I had a manuscript
I would call it
giddyup modern art.
it's what I heard
the little girl say
to the metal sculpture.
she had asked what it was -
and to her it was a horse
even if it was a waterfall.
and I think that my poems
can be a river for me, and to you
they might be tree leaves . . .
blowing in the wind.
Copyright © 2011 Nan P.
Process notes: "Giddyup Modern Art," comes from some reality and some imagination. About 20 years ago, I overheard a child ask his father about the metal sculpture in front of my then office building. The father replied, "I think it is a horse." He did not go on to explain what modern art was. In my imagination, I became a little girl asking my parent about the sculpture, and my parent went on to explain modern art in great detail. At the absurdity of that thought, I decided that the little girl might say, giddyup modern art, to the sculpture at the end of that mini-lecture. I have always liked the line, and haven't ever forgotten it. This poem is my little take on radical desconstructionism.
10 comments:
nan, I love the title and the poem.
Thanks for the process notes.
The perception of modern art is
varied from viewer to viewer.
Pamela
That's great! I love a poem that can also tell me a story I find interesting.
I love it...I especially like the ending.
I like the title and the poem.
A very neat statement on the subjective/objective in art: what the artist transmitted and what the consumer received.
The story is so cute and simple, but the point it makes so true!
I really enjoyed this poem and also the process notes, separately and together. I could really picture the scene and the enquiring small girl.
How true - a wonderful name for your poetry book - it offers a magical image.
and I think that my poems
can be a river for me, and to you
they might be tree leaves . . .
blowing in the wind.
Perfectly put!
Love the title - and the poem is great, too. Makes me want to go listen to a great song by Art Brut called "Modern Art" which includes the line "Modern art makes me want to rock out..." :)
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