Dotted Rocks…
An avalanche
of dotted rocks
swiftly descends
from passing trends
to bury some
artists alive.
Their dotty ghosts
are sometimes seen
painting great art
that might have been.
I laugh and sigh
in knowing why
they fell beneath
such passing trends.
Shall I now paint
this rock I hold
and strive to turn
rock into gold?
(18/10/2020-
Shelley Wilson)
Without ‘cultural appropriation’, what would our lives look like?
Consider: clothing, housing, furniture, education, food, tools, sports, arts, transportation, technologies, medicine and other sciences. (Where did your style and material of clothing actually originate?)
Appropriation, imitation and adaptation are part of our cultural and individual growth.
‘Cultural identity’ and pride can still thrive without the ‘cultural purity’ of living as our ancient ancestors once did, or with only what our ‘heritage cultures’ created and accomplished without ‘cross- cultural influences’ throughout history.
May Humanity grow in wisdom and understanding, not condemnation.
(July 31, 2020- Shelley Wilson)
The book is a gift for my poetry. The poem is my second entry. The painting is my digital art.
Flowerpoet 
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