Response

Creative City

to look, and not avert one's gaze;
that is where all the art is, the passion
and 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 killed
everything you want to
bring home, oh citizen

My Response
I think that this poem, creative city, is very well written in free verse, and is very interesting. This poem is about how typical person in a city looks at art. I like how the poet tells us that art does not begin with art, but in the eyes. This tells us that the city itself is so beautiful and everywhere you look is considered art. I also like the part when the poet tells us that the eyes are everything; when you look up at another, and look away without a smile. This tells us that if you look away from that person you are looking away from art, and when you look at the person you are looking at art.