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Open Poetry #43

Fini?

Abe
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since 2003-05-28

Posts 694
Looks like Vero Beach, FL until the end!

0 posted 2008-10-07 10:17 AM

Fini?

The sculpture is almost done
The shapes becoming clear
But like all art it might be done
Tomorrow or next year.

The hammer strikes the chisel
And the chips fall to the ground
When the point's gone from that chisel
Then another must be found.

The artist’s dream, reality
Cut from a block of stone
But, can be a sad reality
If cold feeling’s all he's known.

It’s been with him night and day
Centered in his living room
Worked on in the light of day
And in the late night gloom.

It's kept his mind from breaking
Like those splintered shards that fall
But not kept his heart from breaking
It's kept him alive, that's all.

Will this one be the last one
That he will ever do?
When he completes this one
Will that finish his life too?

But that hard piece of stone
Can bring a warm feeling to the soul
If the sculptor uses that stone
Just to touch a heart, his goal.

07-07-1984

Del "Abe" Jones
Mankind's greatest accomplishment is not the revolution of technology, it is the evolution of creativity. copyright 1984

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

1 posted 2008-10-07 07:19 PM

A beautiful tribute, Abe. How much of the heart resides in each small piece of stone left on the floor? Sculptors release what is captured within the stone, often seeing what no one else can see. But who releases the soul of the sculptor when s(he)is trapped in
the stone of self-bondage?

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

2 posted 2008-10-07 07:21 PM

Fine writing...James

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