John Keats: Is This the Truth and Beauty you Imagined? A poem b y C.T.Rasmuss

Some Men  C.T. Rasmuss, India Ink/acrylic/pastels (2013).

First and foremost I'm an artist, and as an artist I give myself the freedom to express my intentions any which way I please!

Lately I've been working on a series which has nothing to do with which I wish to express via this 'blog'...what is..relevant is the poem which I've been working on, a poem which is intended for a local poetry contest.  

You see...writing/poetry is my White Whale, so I've devised a plan to pursue this eluded art-form as well as apply my strengths as a visual artist into another field; a sort of self satisfying experiment if you will, or more like a form of self validation as well as spiritual release, But as always I give my utmost attention to truth, beauty and Humanity(with God's blessing of course).

 Some Men (1st rough draft)

Taming Doubt and Mastering

Illusions of the Impossible,

Is this part of the truth and beauty 

we need to know of, Mr. Keats?

In the wake of God's infinite Brilliance;

it is told to us, "Men shall not

live by bread alone, but..."

perhaps in a world of thieves,

virtuous men would drop like flies!

Some men still pray on their knees.

The Chronicles of Bliss softly read

upon the lands of turmoil;

while it's impressionable audience

is captivated by speeches

of those corrupted silhouettes.

Some men are bailing out their boats.

Endearing to reach something greater

souls of isolation in magnanimous quake,

subordination to the fiercest elements,

an artist records his findings with a brush

attained destination is relevant with every stroke

Some men are stranded ashore.

In a system of bountiful caverns

masked with a lavish odor of Mint Julep

streams of irrelevant hope cascades along, 

emptying its spoils into the epicenter of 

smashed dreams and crushed faith.

Some men drift out to sea

In light of smoldering embers of mortality

flickering from petrified dreams of youth;

Some men choose to wade out eternity.

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