The Armory Show of 1913introducrd America to Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne, Picasso, Brancusi—pulled American culture out of its comfort zone just months before the whole world was to be irrevocably torn from its comfort zone.
THE ARMORY SHOW
At the Armory Show of 1913 scandalized by Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase
in seventeen months the guns would roar trenches would open in the dark earth like wounds or like graves
Duchamp’s brother a cubist as well Egon Schiele and Isaac Rosenberg never made it
to witness a generation lost and making art in a world where no one cared
that nudes could recline or rise from the sea or carry urns filled with oil but they never walked downstairs
Wow! This is one very fine poem, though my Stephen disagrees and said there wasn't a comfort zone to be pulled out of...because poetry and art were regional and there were no genres and there was great realism, Eakins and his school, for one.
I am very impressed by the power and strength of this small poem. …"to witness a generation lost and making art in a world where no one cared..." That, my friend, is very heavy and quite awesome...
excellent. i'm a bit obsessed by the first world war. it's the most horrific thing i can imagine. so bad they had to have a rest for 20 years to grow another generation for slaughter - a farewell to arms - paul.
the landlord can't find the key sure they do these things just to bug me supposed to move in today but lewis drive is still far away
another lager and a broken t.v. still a thousand yard stare to see in december it's hard to find a honey bee and hide in the windward lea
small frustrations add up like an overflowing cup pull me this way and that way just need a key to a place to stay away.....and away.........and away.....and away a place where i can be me.
Pretty good portrait of life as it happens to you. My experience is that as I focus on what I do have and give thanks, my blessings do continue to expand. However, when I focus on what is lost or taken away, I lose more!!! Odd but true. I know it might be impossible for you to change your attitude, however if you did you might change your life. I did once.
can't say i've had any blessings in recent years tash. seem to get frustrated at every turn. still trying, but it's one step forward, two steps back at the moment. like snakes and ladders, i nearly get out then bump in to the big snake - take care. love - paul.
I'm sorry but I don't see what this has to do with striving to get out of a comfort zone. This is something you enjoy not something that makes you uncomfortable.
Funny, but this is the first poem of the group where I thought the poet took herself out of her comfort zone, learning things she wasn't sure she could learn.
comfort zone and I have a very tight agreement when things start getting tough I usually just give up I know this sounds like an ostrich way out but, I do have method in my Madness
Life is so short and I'm here to have fun and if it starts to feel stressful and beyond my ken why? logically, should I go on?
well-written, very touching poem. I have never had anything like a stable life. Actually, I don't think a stable life would be to my liking. I enjoy being tossed around. Of course, You are definitely right even with the comfort zone twisted around, we cannot control circumstances!
Lovely and inciteful. Yes, you stop making changes and life give you changes anyway. And I think your life of constant change prepared you better than most people.
know what you mean. i spent years creating comfort zones, then it all falls to bits in a few days. being on the road you expect nothing and are rarely disapointed - love - paul.
my friend said i should never get out of bed whenever i do i get in to trouble much easier to live in my little bubble i have my old books and music to protect me from the new the modern world makes me sick on every city corner a drug addled lunatic poor little homeless amanda warner she got beaten up for christmas and arrested by the police who also kicked her ass upon her release her boyfriend was waiting to beat her some more amanda doesn't have a comfort zone she is always chilled to the bone all she wants is a bathroom and a carpeted floor.
amanda isn't tough enough to live on the streets. especially in winter. she's gotta escape. i'll try to do something. see if i can get her a room - love - paul.
I like this one a lot. I think you are at your best when you tell other people's stories rather than dwelling on your own problems. This one moves smoothly from you into Amanda. Nicely done.
I'm wondering why so many replies to poems are ending up as separate comments lately. Makes it very confusing as to who replied to what poem. I find even if I hit reply it comes up as a comment and I have to copy and paste as a reply and delete the one that came up as a comment.
amanda is scared all the time. as i was during the marie debarcle. but i escaped that. tried to give amanda train fare to escape too, but she is too scared to leave. don't really know what else to do - love - paul.
Comfortable, uncomfortable Which will I choose? Do I wear sandals Or perhaps the tight shoes? Put on the tight belt or Let it all go? It's a difficult choice And how do I know?
Once I was fine until I realized life could hold more than I saw with my eyes; life could expand and I could be free to live as the person that really was me.
What did I do? What do you know! I left off the tightness and let myself grow never again to confine who to be I found myself happy at last to be me.
choices always choices and how do we know when we make the right ones? choosing to be ourselves instead of trying to please others can sometimes be the hardest decision.
Writing a song is out of my comfort zone, as is political poetry, so I tried to do both. I keep saying this generation needs protest songs. This one is terrible, but maybe if I keep working, it'll get there.
chorus: Listen to the wind. Listen to the sky. Listen to the earth Before she dies.
Most every climate scientist has told us it is true. The earth is slowly growing warmer, no way to misconstrue.
Yet our President once claimed to us that it's a Chinese hoax, It gets so cold in New York City, so it can't be true he jokes.
chorus
So many ice caps, glaciers, ice shelves have disappeared, not forming, but "We could use a big, fat dose" says Trump, "of global warming."
"Record low temperatures and massive amounts of snow. Where the hell is GLOBAL WARMING?" shows what he does not know.
chorus
Longer, hotter heat waves, droughts, more rain and hurricanes. Antarctica is melting. Believing takes no brains.
It's time to stop the nonsense. time to take a stand. We need to save the world, time join our hands.
The Armory Show of 1913introducrd America to Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne, Picasso, Brancusi—pulled American culture out of its comfort zone just months before the whole world was to be irrevocably torn from its comfort zone.
ReplyDeleteTHE ARMORY SHOW
At the Armory Show
of 1913
scandalized by
Duchamp’s Nude
Descending a Staircase
in seventeen months
the guns would roar
trenches would
open in the dark earth
like wounds or like graves
Duchamp’s brother
a cubist
as well Egon Schiele and
Isaac Rosenberg
never made it
to witness
a generation lost
and making art
in a world where
no one cared
that nudes could recline or
rise from the sea or
carry urns filled
with oil but
they never walked downstairs
awesome take on this prompt! and a deep, thoughtful and powerful write. thank you for leading the way.
DeleteWow! This is one very fine poem, though my Stephen disagrees and said there wasn't a comfort zone to be pulled out of...because poetry and art were regional and there were no genres and there was great realism, Eakins and his school, for one.
DeleteAwesome poem as always. Art does take people who make it, and view, out of their comfort zones.
DeleteI am very impressed by the power and strength of this small poem. …"to witness a generation lost and making art in a world where no one cared..." That, my friend, is very heavy and quite awesome...
ReplyDeleteexcellent. i'm a bit obsessed by the first world war. it's the most horrific thing i can imagine. so bad they had to have a rest for 20 years to grow another generation for slaughter - a farewell to arms - paul.
ReplyDeleteTHE KEY
ReplyDeletethe landlord can't find the key
sure they do these things just to bug me
supposed to move in today
but lewis drive is still far away
another lager and a broken t.v.
still a thousand yard stare to see
in december it's hard to find a honey bee
and hide in the windward lea
small frustrations add up
like an overflowing cup
pull me this way and that way
just need a key
to a place to stay
away.....and away.........and away.....and away
a place where i can be me.
life is full of little frustrations that together make us feel dislocated and yes out of our comfort zone when all we want to is to feel safe.
Deletewarm and safe and loved is all i've ever wanted bonita. but i keep getting the rug pulled from under my feet - happy newar - love - paul.
DeletePretty good portrait of life as it happens to you. My experience is that as I focus on what I do have and give thanks, my blessings do continue to expand. However, when I focus on what is lost or taken away, I lose more!!! Odd but true. I know it might be impossible for you to change your attitude, however if you did you might change your life. I did once.
Deletecan't say i've had any blessings in recent years tash. seem to get frustrated at every turn. still trying, but it's one step forward, two steps back at the moment. like snakes and ladders, i nearly get out then bump in to the big snake - take care. love - paul.
DeleteFrustration can take one out of their comfort zone, just like using "their" in the singular takes me out of mine. LOL
Deletep.s. meant happy new year of course. damn that aussie wine ha ha - paul.
ReplyDeleteI watch YouTube every day
ReplyDeleteTo me, it’s like going to school
Even though, I’m 72
I feel that I strive, all the time
To me, it’s like going to school
I learn something new, every day
I feel that I strive, all the time
I still have purpose on Earth
I learn something new, every day
I apply it and use it, it’s mine!
I still have a purpose on Earth
If for nothing else, to make you smile
I apply it and use it, it’s mine!
I feel that I strive all the time
If for nothing else, to make you smile
I watch You Tube every day
I'm sorry but I don't see what this has to do with striving to get out of a comfort zone. This is something you enjoy not something that makes you uncomfortable.
Deletemy comfort zones are this library. fae's pizza restaurant and bed. most other things are things i don't want to do - love - paul.
DeleteStill a well written poem, perhaps concerning what is comfortable for you?
DeleteFunny, but this is the first poem of the group where I thought the poet took herself out of her comfort zone, learning things she wasn't sure she could learn.
Deletecomfort zone and I
ReplyDeletehave a very tight agreement
when things start getting tough
I usually just give up
I know this sounds like an
ostrich way out
but, I do have method in my
Madness
Life is so short
and I'm here to have fun
and if it starts to feel stressful
and beyond my ken
why? logically, should I go on?
I don't think it's good
for my health..
not good for your mental health especially
DeleteFunny and true. I’d leave out method to my madness and go straight from “But”to the next verse.
Deleteif there is one thing i've learned in 51 years, it's when to give up - love - paul.
DeleteYes, Tad! I see where that would work! it brings the whole idea closer together and leaves out the junk..
DeleteI do agree, and have done the same myself. Your insight is right on. I know I would have perished long since if I had not made my changes.
DeleteI disagree, learning to do things you initially find impossible has great rewards.
DeleteMy sister, Victoria, used to say
ReplyDeleteif life got too comfortable
it became uncomfortable to me
and I had to shake it up
Move from apartment to apartment
city to city - state to state
get married, get divorced
start a new business...
It's been years since
my life has been shaken
so my body took the initiative
developed cancer and shook up my life
The funny thing is I discovered
my comfort zone had changed
I liked my stable life
and now cancer has taken me out of it
Sometimes stepping out of our comfort zone
isn't our choice to make
but circumstances force the move
and all we can do is accept it
well-written, very touching poem. I have never had anything like a stable life. Actually, I don't think a stable life would be to my liking. I enjoy being tossed around. Of course, You are definitely right even with the comfort zone twisted around, we cannot control circumstances!
DeleteA most insightful poem and very well said. Thanks for sharing.
DeleteLovely and inciteful. Yes, you stop making changes and life give you changes anyway. And I think your life of constant change prepared you better than most people.
DeleteI like the way this treats the subject of shifting comfort zones, moving from Victoria to you and movement within the lives of each sister.
ReplyDeleteknow what you mean. i spent years creating comfort zones, then it all falls to bits in a few days. being on the road you expect nothing and are rarely disapointed - love - paul.
ReplyDeleteAMANDA'S STORY
ReplyDeletemy friend said
i should never get out of bed
whenever i do
i get in to trouble
much easier to live in my little bubble
i have my old books and music
to protect me from the new
the modern world makes me sick
on every city corner
a drug addled lunatic
poor little homeless amanda warner
she got beaten up for christmas
and arrested by the police
who also kicked her ass
upon her release
her boyfriend was waiting to beat her some more
amanda doesn't have a comfort zone
she is always chilled to the bone
all she wants is a bathroom and a carpeted floor.
some people never do find their comfort zone because they find it more frightening to leave what they know even though it's dangerous for them.
Deleteyeah. it's odd bonita. i'm sure i'm pressing the right buttons. see where this one turns up - love - paul.
DeleteSo sad, you do meet the most down people.Well described.
Deleteamanda isn't tough enough to live on the streets. especially in winter. she's gotta escape. i'll try to do something. see if i can get her a room - love - paul.
DeleteI like this one a lot. I think you are at your best when you tell other people's stories rather than dwelling on your own problems. This one moves smoothly from you into Amanda. Nicely done.
DeleteI'm wondering why so many replies to poems are ending up as separate comments lately. Makes it very confusing as to who replied to what poem. I find even if I hit reply it comes up as a comment and I have to copy and paste as a reply and delete the one that came up as a comment.
ReplyDeleteamanda is scared all the time. as i was during the marie debarcle. but i escaped that. tried to give amanda train fare to escape too, but she is too scared to leave. don't really know what else to do - love - paul.
ReplyDeleteDecisions, Decisions
ReplyDeleteComfortable, uncomfortable
Which will I choose?
Do I wear sandals
Or perhaps the tight shoes?
Put on the tight belt or
Let it all go?
It's a difficult choice
And how do I know?
Once I was fine
until I realized
life could hold more
than I saw with my eyes;
life could expand
and I could be free
to live as the person
that really was me.
What did I do?
What do you know!
I left off the tightness
and let myself grow
never again
to confine who to be
I found myself happy
at last to be me.
choices always choices and how do we know when we make the right ones? choosing to be ourselves instead of trying to please others can sometimes be the hardest decision.
DeleteI like your take on the prompt. And yes, I left off the tightness years ago.
Deletenice poem tash. i agree. but sometimes being me is what gets me in to trouble - love - paul.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment, Bonnie, hardest and perhaps most important to do. Paul, it all depends how "in your face" you manifest your being of me.
ReplyDeleteWriting a song is out of my comfort zone, as is political poetry, so I tried to do both. I keep saying this generation needs protest songs. This one is terrible, but maybe if I keep working, it'll get there.
ReplyDeletechorus:
Listen to the wind.
Listen to the sky.
Listen to the earth
Before she dies.
Most every climate scientist
has told us it is true.
The earth is slowly growing warmer,
no way to misconstrue.
Yet our President once claimed to us
that it's a Chinese hoax,
It gets so cold in New York City,
so it can't be true he jokes.
chorus
So many ice caps, glaciers, ice shelves
have disappeared, not forming,
but "We could use a big, fat dose"
says Trump, "of global warming."
"Record low temperatures
and massive amounts of snow.
Where the hell is GLOBAL WARMING?"
shows what he does not know.
chorus
Longer, hotter heat waves, droughts,
more rain and hurricanes.
Antarctica is melting.
Believing takes no brains.
It's time to stop the nonsense.
time to take a stand.
We need to save the world,
time join our hands.
chorus
this is really good! you did great stepping outside your comfort zone.
ReplyDelete