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Chalmette Guy
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0 posted 2009-06-08 01:34 PM


If I were an artist I would paint you
I would make you immortal with my brush
Trace each line to capture the essence true
In that way, however far, I could touch
Caress with strokes of tender loving hand
The details gone over with greatest care
Do what I do to exult if I can
To hope of the angels their gift to share
Colors only mutely compare to you
A pale copy my skills as artist test
The limits of your beauty as the truth
And which colors chosen honor you best

This lonely artist works with brush and paint
To be close to you, his own earthbound saint


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Midnitesun
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Gaia
1 posted 2009-06-08 02:21 PM


Wow. You can paint me any day.


Score another one for poet-artist CG.

Chalmette Guy
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2 posted 2009-06-08 02:23 PM


Consider yourself painted Midnite. Although I only have mastered finger paint. lol

Thank you.

ctowen
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3 posted 2009-06-08 03:29 PM


As in any painting, the magic is not just the color but in the stroke ....

   .... hopefully your fingers don't cramp!

Enjoyed

Ct

"You don't have to go
You're the poetry man
You make things all rhyme" - P. Snow


              

viking_metal
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4 posted 2009-06-08 05:16 PM


Chalmette.

This is maddeningly impressive.  

I'd be sure to get the ladies if I could write in such a manner.


Seriously, an impressive piece of art here.


-P

Everyone deserves to be loved, even you.

WTBAKELAR
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5 posted 2009-06-08 05:30 PM


If the tongue were a brush, and your words, patina, what beautiful painting you could make.

Your poem paints a wonderful picture in verse.

You might like my poem: Paint me a picture /pip/Forum100/HTML/003206.html
Tracey.

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6 posted 2009-06-08 09:04 PM


Oh you are an Artist,
clever and with a master stroke of pen,

Bloodline

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7 posted 2009-06-09 12:35 PM


Your pen paints as magnificently as any brush... this is absolutely beautiful! *S*
Earth Angel
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8 posted 2009-06-09 02:33 PM


Only an artist with a loving heart could paint a poem as lovely as this.


EA

steavenr
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9 posted 2009-06-10 12:57 PM


others have said it best...your word creation is artistry in its truest form...
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10 posted 2009-06-13 10:51 PM


CG,

Your poem makes me finally take a breath at the end and smile.  What a beautiful testament to love of another.  I'd like to paint love - in vibrant oils or muted and quiet watercolors.  I like your poem and thank you for sharing it.

Alison

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11 posted 2009-06-13 11:11 PM


There is nothing more beautiful than an artists painting of love through words, and you capture that effortlsessy here.  Very well done CG, your brushstrokes are beautiful.  ~D
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