Together They Stand

Not judged in reference

   kindred spirits they dance

 

The words once they’re spoken

  notes and palettes enhanced

 

The music enlivens

  what phrases will say

 

While a painting embodies

  what verse can convey

 

And the only conflict

  is in the critics eye

 

Who sees not the harmony

   but comparisons lie

 

As all art travels skyward

  enjoined hand in hand

                                                          

To the source of its power

  —where together they stand

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)

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