Pie: Culinary Constant

ALLAY that downcast mood with apple pie.
CRUST is flaky, Granny Smith so tart in center.
QUITE true that much is grim, but pie’s got splendor!
CLICK and doom scroll, why? Let’s have some pie.

Chief Virtue

ODDLY, some name the rarely called on
VALOR for ultimate virtue; not, in valor’s
STEAD, descending Spirit’s
FRUIT, patience, say, of need each day.

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Version 1:

Be never EAGER
to NURSE a grudge;
biography’s GENRE
can change given
NEWER information.

Version 2:

NURSE the hope,
EAGER to believe
NEWER joys are coming.
GENRE can change––fiction to non.

See more at Notes by Steven.

Revenge

NURSE revenge into flame, Edmond Dantès, hero of conflicted
GENRE, vigilante tale relenting on its final stretch.
EAGER reader, wanting justice, is swept along in wrath.
NEWER heart gives up its arson at the end—only after anger has blazed lives to cinders.

New Medium

PHASE: Impressionism’s hard-fought vogue, now alight.
FIRST signs photography is gaining force.
“PHOTO”—transcribing light, absent painter’s brush—can it end or fixate
STYLE? Does Daguerre war with artist’s freedom, or will new styles yet shine?

Note: imagining the impressionists, (named for the painting below, exhibited 1874) some years later, their movement having overcome harsh reception by the art establishment. But photography,(Daguerreotype from 1838) was already gathering steam. What would this mean for visual arts?

Boulevard du Temple by Louis Daguerre, ca. 1838 (source: Wikipedia)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulevard_du_Temple_(photograph)

Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet (source: Wikipedia)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impression,_Sunrise