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jwesley
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since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

0 posted 2020-12-15 05:04 PM



When One Paints Ghosts

Painted ghosts
on a canvas covered,
freshly gessoed
'artist' board
and left it there to dry,
for two days longer
than needed.

Arcylic paints don't need
days to dry, but
I was so surprised
by what I saw
that I let it sit
until time became days:
your face
never appeared -
neither your smile,
or the blue of your eyes.

It's true then -
when one paints ghost,
on a white-gessoed
painters canvas,

you never see your heart
again.

© wesley james beard, jr.


© Copyright 2020 Wesley James Beard, Jr. - All Rights Reserved
Paul Wilson
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1 posted 2020-12-16 11:20 PM


James...This is very deep and makes me think about things that matter in life. So glad you shared this with us...Paul

~~To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you~~
Paul

J.J.thomas
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Posts 84

2 posted 2020-12-18 01:00 AM


Very deep poem. Exactly what I needed.
Thank you

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere
3 posted 2020-12-22 06:27 AM


Do you play darts Jimmy?

This felt like a bulls eye! ~L

jjote
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since 2002-12-25
Posts 1088
Ontario, Canada
4 posted 2020-12-28 10:33 AM


I agree this is deep waters. Had to read again, looking for a ghost...

But sad and sweet, a haunting memory one cannot forget.

Gentle Spirit
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since 2000-10-09
Posts 13989

5 posted 2021-04-07 08:44 PM


The ghosts that haunt...indeed.

So good to read you again my dear friend.

"In yearning for nothing, you will be free to enjoy what you do, free to see the patterns, free to hear the music in all things."
-Barbara Ann Kipfer

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