Serious Art

OK, not really......

None the less;

Thirty years or more
It's been a while,
The Hermitage, the Guggenheim, the Louvre.

I still enjoy the masters
Old and new, you understand
In books, the net, and galleries in Japan
In shops and markets
On seldom traveled roads.

Many's the unplanned turning that I've made
Just to seek some respite or some shade
To find instead a poem wrote with oil
Or a sonnet shaped in bronze.

Thirty years or more
And since then,
More and more I understand
Great art, serious art, just art
Is where you find it.


watercolor and colored pencil.
11" X 14", 140 pound cold pressed