Writer, Musician, Poet, Academic
18 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in Blog Tags: art, deconstruction, words, writing
If you have something to say, why not say it clearly?
If you have nothing to say, why are you writing?
A sequence of words, no matter how arranged, doesn’t always justify itself.
Art isn’t the deconstruction of meaning.
Perhaps deconstruction should be applied to itself.
03 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in Blog Tags: art, language, meaning, poem, poetics, poetry, reality, script, word play, words
I paint with words the colors of my moods
In language, I play the notes of my soul
With nouns and verbs, I construct structures of meaning
The script that is scene and act of my life’s issues
And if I am true, my words are yours
Poetry that is about language only
Means nothing to the ages
Word play, alliteration, assonance, rhyme and rhythm
Are scholastic toys unless vehicles of meaning
When dancing language denotes reality
Poetry is loved and lasting
12 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in Blog Tags: language, poem, poetry, truth, words, writing
Your first written impulse isn’t always
The truth
And so revisions
Paring away distracting words
Imprecise words
Replacing the vague with
Clarity
Sculpting truth
11 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in Blog Tags: epistemology, experience, language, lies, Locke, poetry, soul, truth, words
Words are created by people;
They help us function.
Words have meaning only when
Our experience meshes with the origin
Of any given word.
Then there is the consideration
Of experience.
To Locke, experience is
Inner and outer.
The motions of our soul are inner.
The world we all share is outer.
Words created to mediate what is inner
Confront what is outer.
When they coincide,
We call it truth.
A preponderance of words from what is inner
That don’t coincide with words from what is outer
Is what we call a lie.
Linguistic processes affirm the art of epistemology.
And there is what we call truth.
For those who care.
10 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in Blog Tags: art, form, hue, language, poetry, words
Critical Theory
Poetry is about the imagination
Language is about itself
Words about words
Art is about form, hue, and value
There is something in that
But not the whole
Words come from other words in a sequence
But why the sequence?
And why the form, hue, and value?
Meaning clothes itself in words, form, hue, and value
We read, we view
We bring meaning to the meaning
Which is clothed in word, form, hue, and value
–Neither meaning unviewed wholly
Nor the reader’s meaning wholly
Neither exclusively words about language
Nor exclusively the readers’ meaning
But an encounter, dialogue, relationship
There’s something of the artist in art
And we come away more that we were
After reading, after viewing
