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Sunshine
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0 posted 2014-03-22 12:12 PM



If I could paint….

I would paint
simply, in color, watering the canvas
with tears, I’m sure.

Simple colors, circumspect to auras
that align our hips and spine, heart and mind
as one living human soul.

I dream of oils and waters,
mixing, seeing rainbows under lights
wanting to replicate them
in real and tomorrow’s sunshine.

It is so very hard for me to see dark.
If I could paint,
I would not paint
Dark.

© KRJ 3-21-14

© Copyright 2014 Karilea Rilling Jungel - All Rights Reserved
Lori Grosser Rhoden
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1 posted 2014-03-22 08:02 AM


Dark is not your nature nor your your style lady. But it is the contrast that gives you your brilliance.


Lori

JerryPat2
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2 posted 2014-03-22 08:04 AM


Ahhh . . . Yours would be a bright and shining example for those to stare in fascination and amazement, but still, the dark might show itself in ways you would not believe it could. It would be subtle, but it would have to be there, for it is, unfortunately, a part of life.

~*~ Make of yourself a light.--Mary Oliver . . . ~*~

Rex Allen McCoy
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3 posted 2014-03-22 09:52 AM


But, you can paint
Marchmadness
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4 posted 2014-03-22 03:19 PM


Why would Sunshine paint dark?
                          Ida

latearrival
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5 posted 2014-03-22 03:32 PM


Karilea,I am with Ida on
this one. jo

Sunshine
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6 posted 2014-03-22 11:28 PM


I know light cannot be without dark. And I really don't fear evil. I just cannot share evil, or write of it well, if at all.

You are all so brilliant in your own light, and I treasure all of you. Thank you for reading, thank you for sharing your thoughts.


OwlSA
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7 posted 2014-03-24 04:50 AM


Karilea!!!!!!!!!  Of all your beautiful, beautiful poetry, this, in my humble opinion, is possibly the very, very best!

Just one point of correction - you CAN and DO paint!  You paint in all the colours and emotions of words!  Who has need of a painting on canvas, when you paint like this in words!

Owl

JamesMichael
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8 posted 2014-03-25 08:48 PM


nice...I think of painting too...I am thankful for the skills I do have...James
secondhanddreampoet
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9 posted 2014-04-13 09:52 PM


I carried an undergrad. 'art major' as well as the science one and was a fairly good oil painter;
however, I have always felt that the very 'finest' of the 'arts' is 'word-painting!' (particularly poetry)
To me, 'words' seem to be the most enduring form of true magic in this sad, 'ol world.

Sunshine
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10 posted 2014-04-14 12:00 PM


Diana, Gentlemen....thank you. I have been pulled away from the blue pages far too long, and probably for a while more. I miss you all, and appreciate it so much when you comment on all of the brief moments. Sending out love....

K

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