Day 1 of National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo) 

Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt: Today, we challenge you to take inspiration from this glossary of musical terms, or this glossary of art terminology, and write a poem that uses a new-to-you word. 

I found the term Suprematism which the Museum of Modern Art describes as:

A term coined by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich in 1915 to describe a new mode of abstract painting that abandoned all reference to the outside world. His new style claimed “the supremacy of pure feeling or perception in the pictorial arts” and rejected the deliberate illusions of representational painting. Using the basic components of painting’s language—color, line, and brushwork—he constructed a visual vocabulary of colored geometric shapes floating against white backgrounds, which he felt mapped the boundless space of the ideal.

https://www.moma.org/collection/terms/suprematism

And so my poem:

The Emperor has no Art

I’m no artist, but I can see
and that?
if that’s art, then I’m

no artist
splotches on canvas, forms that go nowhere
interesting

on a white background, a solid colored rectangle 
or two
for the price of one
you want to tell me that’s art?

suprematism, it’s called
supremacy of pure feeling 
  abandon all references
    reject deliberate illusions
      construct a visual vocabulary
        map the boundless space of the ideal

huh.

I’m no artist, but perhaps 
I just can’t see