My Poem ‘The Artist’s Life’ October 9, 2013 in Poetry | Tags: Accident, artist, Carpenter, Coffee, Design, Destiny, everything, Inspiration, Life, Love, musician, obsession, Painter, people, poem, Poet, Poetry, Sculpture, Starbucks, Time | Leave a comment The artist’s life begins with an obsession, a need, an instinct, a compulsion to share the inspiration that has been stirred within them, and express themselves in any way that they can, in the way that they feel most comfortable- for some, that can be with their mouths; for others, that can be with a paintbrush, or a pen, or by picking up the pieces of something that is no more and creating and making something brand new from the rubble. For me, everything I do, or say, think about, and express, all revolves around love- my love, other people’s love, the hope within my heart, and the goodness that I see and feel in the heart, eyes, and mind, that is always there, even when I am looking at a stranger, or sitting looking out of a window, while enjoying a hot coffee from a coffee mug. Mark Hastings Nothing is by accident. Everything is by design. Things said out-loud are seldom what people actually meant. Things done can never be undone. Things made can never be unmade. Things happen as a matter of both neccesity and destiny, as well as happening as a matter of time. A musician hears a melody in a cacophony of chaos; a poet reads, sees, and feels, an epic, a sonnet, a masterpiece, in the interconnections that they witness all around; a painter, a sculpture, sees what they want to show before their first brush-stroke, before the first chip of the hammer and chisel, before the first colour wash; a carpenter can feel what they are making in the wood, and they respond to every texture that they feel- they know what they must do simply from a sound. Every artist is affected by everything- from the golden light of a beautiful sunset, to the vibration that is caused and felt by even a single drop of rain on the ground. An artist wakes up every morning and instantly creates something, and they continue to do this every hour of the day, even if it is only with a thought- from morning to midday, from noon to night; that is what keeps an artist going, that is what keeps an artist breathing, that is what keeps an artist searching, that is everything that an artist wants from an artist’s life
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