7/20/2018

The Finer Points Of A Poem Commission

By Timothy Allen


The world is rather bland. It can be drab, can be nothing but shades of gray. But there are little things that can be done in order to add a few splashes of color into the world. But those colors are not literal. In some cases, they can be metaphors, because the world is full of color. Part of that metaphorical color is a poem commission.

Poems are words. But they are also so much more than mere words at the same time. They are sentences, but simple sentences do not make prose. They rhyme, but rhyming is not the end all be all of poetry.

A commission is a fee. That is actually the root of it. A person pays an artist a certain amount, and then the artist then creates a piece of art. Now, the kind of art created can vary on the specifications of the customer. Many of the great artistic matters of the Renaissance worked under such conditions. Many of these works are still preserved today, to be enjoyed by all kinds of people.

There is a reason that people commission poems or other types of art. Mainly because they want to create a memorial to the self, to commemorate themselves in some way, shape, or form. But also because they just want to experience some beauty that is tailor made to them.

There is only one singular purpose to a poem. That is to create. To make people think. To be heard and read, and then to make the people doing that hearing and reading feel something. Even if it just the tiniest sliver of emotion, it is enough. That is the purpose of prose, to create an emotion not previously felt in the immediate past. It can inspire or it can demoralize, but the fact is that it has to make someone emotional to some small degree.

Poets do not grow on trees. They can found in certain places, however. Places such as a cafe, but it would probably have to be an indie cafe, and they are most common during the local open mic night. Of course, they can also be found around college campuses. Then there is the internet, as they all kinds of artists can be found online.

Money is going to be an issue. Yes, its true that some people want their artists to be pure, to be untouched by the realities of money. But artists do not live in a vacuum. They need to eat, to pay rent, to pay utilities. So they are going to need their the money from the commission, because that is what a commission is. Its an exchange of money for services.

Of course, there must be a level of skill on the part of the poet. Anyone can string words together. Anyone can put words together that rhyme. But not everyone can put the words together in a way that can break and mend hearts, put the rhymes together until the very core of a person in totally moved.

The world can be bland. Humanity can see that it is. So it created its way out of blandness.




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