Lyrics of Reason and Experience

Poet the Painter

27 Poet the Painter If painting is all about mixing colors Different colors of paints And poetry is about mixing words Different words to make meaning Then a poet is a painter And a painter is a poet If painting is about making wonderful designs Designs that can steal away the minds of passers-by And poetry is about making meaningful phrases out of wonderfully joined words Phrases that can steal away the minds of the readers Then painting is writing poetry And writing poetry is painting If painting is about making something more visible Visible to the eyes of those who didn’t care much to see what is there And poetry is about making something clearer and more visible Clearer and more visible to those who didn’t think seriously about the subject of poetry Then painting is poetry And poetry is painting If a painter paints a house for the people to see Painting reveals And a poet writes poetry for the people to read other people’s minds Poetry reveals Then a painter is a poet 28 And a poet is a painter If a painter is a creator of images Painting creates images with a bite It exhales things into being And if a poet is a creator of images Poetry creates images with a bite It exhales things into being Then who am I? A poet or a painter? But they say I am poet the painter ...