Response #2

Creative City
to look, and not avert one's gaze;that is where all the art is, the passionand the city. people who do not look,cannot see canvas, or poems or
notes for happiness.
art does not begin with art,but in the eyes. the eyes are everything;when you look up at another, and look away without a smile,
you have killedeverything you want tobring home, oh citizen.
© Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Response
I thought this was a really creative and unique poem. The author has a really creative mind and by reading this poem I get a sense that this author thinks there is more to every poem or piece of art then just what’s written or drawn or painted. I like how the author talks about the creative traces all the way back from the art right to the artists’ eyes. I think when he says “people who do not look cannot see canvas, or poems or notes for happiness”, he is telling the reader that to truly understand the art, you must trace it to where it comes from, and that is in the persons eyes, and until the reader does this, they won’t have a true understanding. The author talks a lot about eye contact and I think he is also trying to show us that not only does eye contact help us learn from and about one and other, but it is also needed in a community to live and work with each other. All in all, I think this is a great poem with a lot of messages conveyed by unique symbols.