The Finer Points Of A Poem Commission

By Timothy Allen


Humanity likes to believe that it exerts control over the world. This is true to some extent. Humanity can and does indeed often exert control over its surroundings. Of course, this control is limited. There are some things to do not lend themselves well to human intervention. Yet there are also some things that do lend themselves well to human intervention. Things like beauty. The world is full of it, and naturally so, but that does not mean that humanity cannot create more of it. Indeed, it often does, sometimes through a poem commission.

Poems are words. But they are also so much more than mere words at the same time. They are sentences, but simple sentences do not make prose. They rhyme, but rhyming is not the end all be all of poetry.

A commission is a job. Its when a person who does not have an artistic inclination agrees to pay a fee to someone who does. The money is the main variable. In effect, its an economic transaction.

There is a reason that people commission poems or other types of art. Mainly because they want to create a memorial to the self, to commemorate themselves in some way, shape, or form. But also because they just want to experience some beauty that is tailor made to them.

Poems have a lot of purpose. But they are mainly there for prose, the prose that helps moves hearts and minds. There main use is to be heard, read, and then analyzed at length by graduate students.

The thing about poets, and other artists, is that they may not be readily available. The best place to find them in many cafes, but not chain cafes. Independent cafes with open mic nights are the best bet. As are college campuses. Of course, there is always the internet, where many of the younger creative types can be found.

Starving artists should be a thing of the past. The fact is that poets are people, and as people, they have needs, which are going to cost money in order to be met. Besides, a commission is explicitly about money, about how one party is paying money to the other in exchange for an artistic service.

But of course, the poet should be skilled. Any person with basic linguistic skills can put words together to form a sentence. They can then put those sentences together to form a verse. But that does not mean that the verse produced will be good. It just means that it will be there. Then again, artistic talent is subjective, so maybe samples should be examined before hiring anyone.

The reality of the world is that it is not pretty. It is ugly, it is cruel, and it is wild. But not always. There are times when can be so beautiful that a person can be driven to tears.




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