# Poem #75: Tapestry

Author: bhscorch1313
Tags: Poetry, Youth, age, art

#76 of Poetry

Assignment #4/8 from my college Creative Writing Poetry class. This poem assignment had to start with the line "Unexpected meetings occur in a forest." This poem isn't about art so much as it is about youth, from the perspective of being young and having been young before.

_Tapestry_

"Unexpected meetings occur in a forest"  
Is the title of the first painting  
I look at in the art museum  
Lined up, in a row, with a bunch  
Of other paitings done  
By the same artist.  
The gallery isn't large,  
It's actually quite small,  
As far as art museums go.  
There are a few dozen paitings  
Along the walls,  
And a sculpture or two  
In the middle.

There are only a few other people browsing,  
A family of four,  
Mother, Grandmother, and two children  
One male, the other female.  
The male, being younger, has no interest  
In the ways of art yet.  
Neither does his sister,  
Because she is older.

The interest of art  
Is a dull one indeed  
For you cannot like  
What you do not understand.  
And youth rarely understands  
What it does not create  
Or so I've been told.

~bhscorch

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