Velvet Elvis

[billy]

this feels like a play on or off the anti warhol poem i did (which isn't on par to yours) i think i prefer the concept that any art can be art but it can't all be good art/poetry. depending if you prefer meter and rhyme to free verse etc. depending if what you do comes from mastering a craft as warhol did. (to some extent) or from being one of the masses. (i'm not sure i made sense but there you go)

…and yes, there are many, i like the break into the speech, it's like an ephemeral juxtaposition an actor would use before his cue is called
when it comes to poetry,
who can think only of that
abbreviated writing as such,
which conforms to a certain metered line,
a certain form it must endure,
and, of course, it ab-so-lut-ly has to rhyme.
But then, the first pov is only just less than scathing (for me)
there are those,
also,
and this,
not to be unkind, when someone says not to be, or not really, it usually is or they wouldn't have to pre sorry themselves so to speak
who think that Velvet Elvis
is the highest form of art.
After all, is it not paint,
and is there not a canvas?
Granted, it is inky black,
not blandly white,
but who are you to say,
that they are wrong,
and you are right?
Isn’t this idea of yours just conceit? the question is valid but only partially,
Is beauty not,
in the apprehension of that form,
that pleases he who gazes? and this rewrite of an oldie gives the reason why
Why should Velvet Elvis not be the norm?
I bet more have been painted (and sold),
Than any by that guy, Go-gan, or was it, i like the the knowledge played off the lack of knowledge
Bland-go?
Well, who they are doesn’t matter,
if it were important,
to me, this part made me laugh a little, the way the opposite side of the original question is played out
I’m sure that I would know!
So, with that said,
I have this poem I wrote, i struggle to accept this line is from the same 1st person as that who wrote the above, Go-gan included. is 'i wrote' needed, for me it feels forced.
it really is a hum-dinger,
it came to me the other day the other day feels redundant,
while I was watching Oprah,
or was it Jerry Springer?
What?
Oh no,
I’ve never written one before,
but anyone one can do it,
it just has to rhyme. the insight of this last part is keen though it feels a little too obvious that the rhyme writer couldn't be the 1'st person who is doing the soliloquy
I mean, its nothing that hard,
or that requires practice,
it’s nothing so difficult as say,
painting a Velvet Elvis.

©2011 ~Erthona

all in all i found it to be a good read that seems to put across that it takes all poetry and yet it seems to berate all types of poetry/poet as well. some of it is at odds with some of the statements mentioned and i'm not sure that lifts it up a level or drops it a notch or two.
on the one hand were asked what right we have to dismiss something and on the other we're told beauty is in the eye of the beholder. my grammar isn't good enough to dictate the rights and wrongs so i'll just say i didn't see any prob's there. i did ejoy the piece though. thanks for the read. (jmo)