Photo by Steve Johnson
Poets use words the way an artist uses a brush to paint abstract ideas with color upon a canvas, expressing feelings of fear or love, embracing the trick of ambiguity. Sometimes trying to spell out exactly what you mean is impossible, not to mention boring; you never get everything you need out of a single word.
The best we can do is get close enough to a meaning that our actions "are or are not" expressing. Not knowing what language to speak in the first place is a real pain. How many misunderstandings could we prevent if we all truly spoke the same language?
Makes you wonder what's all happening when people just click. That's no accident— a sense of the familiar passed on somewhere between someone else's past action or even chemistry. Then you take something like music, art, sounds and visuals that are expressing what words cannot but generations of feelings can.
It connects us and, as time has clearly proven, never gets boring. That is a gift of abstract expressionism that channels what you want to have received by the masses in any manner of their choosing. We may be stubborn (closed off) but isn't it amazing when barriers are shattered and perceptions are changed?
Perhaps we are all looking for the chance to be artist; expressing what words and actions fail in an unmistakable practice of being human.