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# What's Art
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/whats-art/
- Published: 2026-01-26T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-26T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: What's art? It's Plato's shadows on the wall. Go, touch it - It's a snake in Eden's garden. Or maybe it's a leaf before the fall. An executed man receives a pardon.
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

What's art? It's Plato's shadows on the wall.  
Go, touch it - It's a snake in Eden's garden.  
Or maybe it's a leaf before the fall.  
An executed man receives a pardon.

What's art? It isn't suffering or pain.  
It's rather a disease, a kind of vector  
that's able, through its subterfuge, to gain,  
bypassing any shielding or deflector,

a channel to your very inner self  
and transfer its concealed, mimetic cargo  
from where it sits. A wall, a frame, a shelf.  
No matter any sanction or embargo  
that you may put on empathy and care.

That's art. And you will see it. If you dare.

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