poetry | Ashton.Gustafson

If you’re looking for poetry, have you accepted your role as a poet?

If so, then make a poetic move.

If you’re wanting the fulfillment of completed art, are you ok with being an artist?

If so, then make an artistic move.

If you’re after making music, have you fallen in love with an instrument (or two) (or three)?

If so, then make a move towards a vow to such an instrument.

Our desires create roles that must create movements in-lieu of the duty, obligation, and responsibility the desire demands.

In other words, “Nothing happens until something moves.” Albert Einstein

Leonard Berstein once said, “…And no matter how serial, stochastic, or otherwise intellectual music may be, it can always qualify as poetry, as long as it is rooted in Earth.”

Him aim in saying this was for us to understand that as long as your music is rooted and pointed to that which is true and human, there will come – at some point – a poetic aftermath.

Alas, may our lives, families, and businesses be rooted in such truth and humanity. May we be pointed at what was true 10,000 years ago, what is true and human today, and what will be true and human 10,000 years from today.

“Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring,
Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish,
…. What good amid these, O me, O life? Answer:

That you are here—that life exists and identity,
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.” Walt Whitman

Ashton.Gustafson

Pause by the orchid. Listen to the bluebird sing. Be love.

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If so, then move…

Rooted In Earth