Dilettante

Dilettante: a person who cultivates an area of interest without real commitment or knowledge, a dabbler in the fine arts

My Connection: I enjoy a visit to an art museum as well as the occasional spectating of performance arts, but I’m definitely not a dedicated student of the finer things in life. I feel like I can appreciate them but I’ll definitely never experience them in the way a committed expert does. Even as a writer I’m definitely more of a simple storyteller than a creator of literature.

My Poem:

I wonder if other people can see

I’m a bit out of place and not at ease

Some sort of intruder, an imposter

I’m not a devotee but a dabbler

Just a part of the general public

I’ve got my bookshelf of half read classics

My one art history course freshman year

An acquaintanceship with William Shakespeare

Though most of our meetings were in a park

As for photography I’m in the dark

Spent a night or two at the orchestra

Though I’ve never been to an opera

Unless you count the one with the Phantom

It’s not my first time in a museum

But at the ballet I became sleepy

And the film noir stuff was kind of creepy

Not a robust resume I admit

Yet the framed faces don’t seem to mind it

Just go and ask the portrait gallery

They all seem to welcome the company

Of a grateful gazer seeking shelter

On an afternoon of rainy weather

Author's Note: This piece was created for Penny Fuller's The A-Z of Unusual Words Challenge. Check out the details in the story linked below.

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