Did the artist shape his verse <br />chisel out a form he saw <br />paint the picture from his minds eye <br />tell a story that he devised <br />design the building to be built <br />write the notes that music makes <br />form the speech for grand debates <br />or are they all just copies <br />kind of fakes? <br /> <br />Who is it that supplies the beauty <br />the harmony of sound and space <br />that makes a simple set of lines <br />convey something quite sublime. <br />I would be an empty tube <br />a pencil that has no lead <br />a blank page without impressions <br />simple in my assertions, nothing said <br />and if I meet with your kind and gentle grace <br />perhaps I might be used to convey <br />just a little of what You have to say.<br /><br />David Taylor<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/what-you-have-to-say-2/
