Acchievment

You feel small, you say,
insignificant

St. Peters Basilica
Robert Frost
Gaugain

Monuments of human greatness,
divine creativeness

Manifestations of the borderless
nature of a human mind

And you?

You don't matter,
you say,
you create nothing
of importance

Their impressions are still here
and arouse enthusiasm

But you are alive!

YOU have the eyes they
created it for

This is all for you!



Poetry by Geir Ove Kvalheim
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Written on 2012-06-02 at 00:49

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countryfog
You have touched on something I have thought about at times, and moreso as I've gotten older . . . did the immortals possessed of "divine creativeness" labor at their works for our benefit or because they had no choice, were compelled and consumed by their visions, did not so much make as were made by their art. I've come to believe that the latter seems more often than not a romantic fiction. Pope Julius II commissioned the building of the new St. Peters Basilica on the site of the dilapidated old one not to the greater glory of God but his own, to house his burial tomb. Frost was very concerned with his reputation and standing in the pantheon of poets. No matter how creative we are we seem to need the validation of others.
2012-06-02



A nice twist at the end, and true. I feel bigger for your poem.
2012-06-02