At dVerse Poets Victoria has invited us to take Pop Art as inspiration for a poem.
Image: ‘In Search Of History’ Alexander Kosolapov, 1982 – Sotsart
Note: SOTS-ART Soviet political art, a journey friend of Pop Art which, due to Soviet censorship of the 1970s – 80s, was mostly underground work.
“I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.” Andy Warhol
The One Hidden
The conspiracy of words and time
melds colour to a constancy of grey
like ever present winter clouds
brooding over truth
whatever that might be,
and indeed,
that is the question Pilate asked
non the wiser for a reply,
that certainty as a non-event is,
in truth, a certainty,
where facts like curbs
eventually erode and fritter
revealing the naked and bold-faced
lies of our fathers,
a constructed history by numbers,
O how we walked those grey blocks
seeking lucent hope,
just a glimmer of colour,
a taste of the real,
no, not that capitalist lie, freedom,
it is the one hidden in my breast.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
