To Be An Artist And Deny Art Poem by Terence George Craddock (Spectral Images and Images Of Light)

to be an artist and deny art
is to deny self decades...
may be devoted invested

into deep wound near fever social causes
delving into tunnels lighting candles
holding lamps high warming other hands

but art denied crucifies poetic souls
song of self is wine sung trodden in life caverns
art is not mainstream commercials remix copycat dance routines

gaga sales pitch rip offs
never climb stairways...
to heaven sung unique songs