Arts debate

Come on let's talk about art
Let's have an old fashioned debate
Argue 'til three in warm, musty bars
Gossip over tea with some mates
Just don't miss the chance to post your reviews
Because believe me, art talks about you

The hardest part is the start,
knowing how to proceed, justify
and develop proven justifications
into significant progress.
Matters that count
to be enjoyed and remembered
more for what they give
than the acts themselves.
This is the art that makes art.

Sixty not out is not too bad for players of class.
Taking guard straight after VE Day
there have been numerous difficulties,
periods of uncertainty, sticky wickets,
unfavourable conditions, the odd play
and miss, opportunity, mix-ups in the middle
and occasionally benefit of the doubt.
It takes some skill and effort to reach sixty not out.

Players of class look towards a century,
a big ton or more. Once set it should follow
however hard the bowlers of perfection bellow
to turn the umpires of opinion against themselves.
The art that makes art must not stand apart
from artists nor detractors, but face their deliveries
and make more of them in setting the score.

With all my green-gowned maids
once adolescent wild, now tame ,
and gifted to an older drudge ,
I bore no grudge to Badger Brock:
by his words I understood
my poem was quite good ,
so years after farting iambics
and naughty limericks
I sent him a copy of my book ,
done without any help from my mum
or Lottery Fund or anyone ,
only me .
Artist or penny-a-line hack
chew the sour grape but spit it
back .

Of until the global brain
Drags to their chamber of gas
Poesy’s cold bloodied carcass
To be dissected by a top weight team
Of sermon faced sophists
Conversing a language deeply
Abstruse and
Without understanding.

Critics
Surgically swapping solid reflexive Ideas
At a post-modern thought swamp
Weave webs of conjecture
About what lies
Beyond, unknown in the moment
Yet connected to now
Bridging to inner wisdom
Chattered erect
With the full support of
Guesses tendered as
Facts
Waiting to be found

When XY and Z turns
AD to BC

And the ustopp-
able force of immediate truth boots
Reason out on its ear and wel-
Comes in Derrida, Baudrillard
Krestiva, Barthes and a Sy-
mphonic absence

Usurping 1
2 and 3 to a possible 6 that
Maybe a 4 or 9, depending
On how the colour of
Tomorrow's noon strikes the
Sound of yesterdays light

Site
Where know nots moan in
Pools of complexity
Pondering unbelief and
Why the human condition
Cannot bend time to its will
With knowledge philosophers
Make up when
Farming and fishing
The mind for proof
Being essentially moved
To reason our faith in beauty.