Poet’s is art

An architect visits the Taj Mahal
A historian visits the Taj Mahal.
So do a poet and a farmer.
Their perceptions differ;
Their abstractions differ.
The poet’s is unique in that
He concretizes selectively
And make the abstraction an art.
02.08.2010

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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