Pic and a Word Challenge #191: Being in time

Whenever a kind soul tells me that what I do is art I thank them but remain unconvinced. Because if this is art, then life is art. And it probably is.

Today a short poem as a result of my what-is-art musing, spurred on by the poetry of Mr. James Douglas Morrison who some know as Jim, the singer of The Doors. First a recorded portion of what he did so well, and then my contribution:

O Great Creator Of Being
 Grant Us One More Hour To
 Perform Our Art
 & Perfect Our Lives
 ~ The Doors, "An American Prayer"
 

What is art
but being 
who you are
standing
where you are
doing 
what you do
and shouting:
Is there anybody out there? 

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When I had a look around my photos to see what to post with this poem, the first three photos below with the red thread connecting them caught my attention. All three were shot in Rome, and so the theme for today was born: Rome with a splash of red (or purple, or orange, or sienna).

These were taken over the last six years, as I am in Rome almost on a monthly basis. Tomatoes will be spilled, heart will be followed and it will end in Redrum.

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  The first three photos were taken in Eur.

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  Eur is a particular part of Rome.

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  Time stopped there at an unfortunate moment.

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  Better we return to the centre. The Temple of Hadrian.

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  Wasn’t me! But they go well with my nails.

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  On Spanish steps.

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  Nothing red here, but it’s the twins I forgot to include yesterday. Romulus, Remus and the Lupa.

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  “Let me just rest these Egyptians here for a minute.”

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  “Follow your heart.” Right, Susanna, on it.

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  A money-landing bank ad.

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  “Sad te ima, sad te nema,” Serbians would say. Here we come, here we go.

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  Almost too pretty to eat.

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  When I feel particularly arty, I take such photos.

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  Or this one. It hurts.

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  Autumn in the rearviewmirror.

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  Mò Mò Republic is a restaurant with stuff in the tree. I think the tree had to go by now.

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  Lovers on the Tiber.

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  Lovers in Eur.

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  Stadio dei Marmi.

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  Redrum in Ostiense.

In response to Patrick Jennings’ Pic and a Word Challenge #191: Being