creative existence

change you
                   change me
                                                 change the world
be like an artist who makes a misstake
smudging the edge of precision
and covers it with a simple // stroke //
put a speck where there is none
make a name for yourself
extend a line as far as possible

s --- t --- r --- e -- t --- c --- h

begin on blank canvas
end with an explosion
green circles!
blue triangles!
red squares!
that seem meaningless
merely jumbles of shapes &&& colors
but it's you there on that paper
and sometimes all it takes is one little thing to
                                                 change you
                             change me
change the world




Author's note - this poem was written at NIU's Creative Writing Camp. I was experimenting with concrete poetry, which use unusual formatting to help enhance a poem's meaning. It only made sense to include all these visuals in this poem because I was relating art to life. All misspellings, grammatical errors, and lack of punctuation are intentional. Hope you liked reading something a little different! Please, let me know what you think of this style!