Poems for a New Century

Friday, April 28, 2023

Whose Is Beauty?

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Who owns beauty, beauty shared? Museums, or collectors’ wares? The galleries who sell, or where The artist pleads his case to show? Beauty, ...
Monday, November 28, 2022

Beauty Is the Highest Good

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Beauty is the highest good Virtue is its own reward Kindness softens every heart Beauty is the highest good Beauty is as beauty does Nothing...
Thursday, July 21, 2022

Requiem over a Farm Field

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You poor SOB. I shot you in the sky so clear. You weren’t old as I, By 4 or 5 months not my peer. You’re in god’s country now. Forget your o...
Monday, September 28, 2020

Looters

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The kingdom of Benin, palace of their king Looted of its treasures by the British king. One king to another: I have looted you.  Keep on ...
Friday, November 15, 2019

A PAINTING IS A PAINTING

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A painting is a painting It’s not like you or me Nobody gets older   No one ever sleeps.  It’s a stillness made of life With me...
Friday, June 15, 2018

We who have gone in search of beauty

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We who have gone in search of beauty For ourselves, or others, on the dole Of what the muse abundantly provides With little succor, o...
Friday, May 11, 2018

The starry night

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Turn on the lights And we don't see the stars! So bright is our home.  But that makes us forget When we fell in love; We were...
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John Sevcik
I'm an artist who lives in Philadelphia. I'm also a poet whose plays were produced here by The Philadelphia Company, Theatre of the Edge, The Brick Playhouse, and The City Theatre of Wilmington. My paintings are shown at Bryant Street Gallery in Palo Alto, California, and Kevin Butler Gallery in Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard. I went to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and have taught drawing and painting at the Fleisher Art Memorial, the Delaware Art Museum, The Delaware College of Art and Design, and the Cheltenham Center for the Arts. View from the Studio is a blog project to observe and respond to art. It is done in the spirit of Fairfield Porter, Robert Henri, and Emerson. The purpose of my other blog, Poems for a New Century, is another matter entirely. Future Tense, the first of my plays, was written in verse and premiered at The Philadelphia Company, forerunner to The Philadelphia Theatre Company. Marathon, Consummation, and Never Enough were also written in poetry suitable for their purpose. Poems for a New Century will experiment further to offer some kindling for this new century of our awareness.
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