Invention.
The wish of painters or poets is to show
perceptive emotion
by noting and transposing inner awe
in vividly vaulted scenes
dripping metaphor, musing on whether
nature could ever be worded
yet knowing its core hides a meaning.
An alchemist with no interest in gold
takes up better investment,
finds a thermal to soar on fancy, flies
up-draughts for sentencing,
poets see jasper in water, jade in dawn
and perceive gems hidden
in every nuance of hot or cold weather.
A seer will catch farside\'s face to etch
its shape in letter or paint,
chimeric by birth an artist, whose eyes
encounter rock ascribes it heart,
transforms by description the earthly
to ethereal, adds dreams
to logic, clear to blur and soft to hard.
It is said largesse opens minds to see
extra in ordinary normality
as when artistic musicians rank magic
of foremost importance
when met with blank canvas-mundane
for clad by invention artists
expect change when Muse is courted.