http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._N._Taber
[ Update: Oct 4th 2017]: We fail to do the arts justice if
we persist in seeing each genre as a separate entity. Yes, they are, but they
also overlap. A poet, for example, writes with a musician’s ear for rhythm and
an artists’ eye for imagery as well as, not infrequently, an actor’s feel for
role-playing and a comedian’s penchant for wry humour.
Readers should not be surprised, therefore, that I also write fiction:
https://rogertaberfiction.blogspot.com/2016/05/news-updates-fiction.html
Now, this poem is a kenning; it last appeared on the blog
in 2010 and was included in Forward
Press Regionals 2010: South and S.W. of England; it does not appear in
any of my collections. and I am unlikely to produce a hoped-for 8th volume owing to various health concerns. (No worries there folks, am still looking on the bright side of life!)
MIND-BODY-SPIRIT, MENTOR TO THE ARTS
I haunt live theatre,
prefer to leave as soon as the show
is over,
curtain barely down,
rather than play the showman for
critics
anxious to praise or bury me
as the case maybe in this glossy
mag
or that local rag, anything
to be seen earning a living, even
by feeding a gossip column
I haunt live farce
and, no, I’m not that feisty voice
on radio
spilling the beans…
about this politician’s gaff or
some cleric
caught out in an act of hypocrisy
sure to rock the hierarchy on its
haunches,
its spin doctors in a flap for
sure,
doing rounds of the rich calling in
favours
on grounds it’s for the poor
I haunt music venues,
willing every tenor, alto, bass,
and dancer
to make good its integrity
rather than play lapdog to the
impresario
who set it all up;
you’ll find me between the notes of
a song,
stanzas of a poem, dialogue in a
play,
lines of sculpture in marble,
bronze or clay,
ground of any painting on display
I am Inspiration, inciting mind-body-spirit
to make an art form of creative therapy
Copyright R. N. Taber 2010
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