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| artwork by blue clementine art |
There is no art to war
Art creates;
war destroys
Art understands;
war attacks
Art is honesty;
war is treachery
Art is tender;
war, indifferent
War is tactics
Strategy, scheming,
cold, efficient planning
Art is ardor
Energy, fire,
hot, chaotic humanity
There is no art to war
Allying the two
is a disgrace, a blasphemy
Art would sooner die
than be captured
in service of war
It often does.
2 comments:
Very well spoken, LM. You have laid out the dichotomy of love vs war very well.
yes, yes it does.
I suspect the word 'art' in the title is used as a shorthand for expertise, and for the emotional and at times irrational (non-rational) decisions that must go into the execution of a task as grim as war.
and again, there is no art in war, but Guernica screams for all of us.
thank you for adding your voice, LM ~ M
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