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WindWalker
Senior Member

since 2001-10-12

Posts 1218

0 posted 2008-07-20 11:32 PM

Life's Canvas

Life's canvas stretches before me,
the paint slowly drying,
having formed a familiar design
from unfolding experiences.

Into the waning light
pensively I journey,
my picture almost complete
but for some final brush strokes.

Expected images are there:
of a mother's tender love
and food on a table
of scrapes and bruises earned
along a sinuous pathway
in carefree days of youth:
these form the edge of my canvas.

Pointing to the centre
are struggles for independence,
then the broader view of life
as I turned away from man's world
to nature's paradise:
mountain sheep gracefully
leaping from cliff to cliff;
eagles soaring ever higher
across stark blue sunlit skies;
leaves drifting softly
through uplifted branches;
brown eyes shyly smiling
in the noonday shade.

I made myself one
with these impressions of life
and now I've reached the center
ready to unfold to the edges
once again.

Prasad Nataraj
Senior Member

since 2008-05-29

Posts 1149
Bangalore,India

1 posted 2008-07-21 04:57 AM

Hi Windwalker, I like this painting a lot. A painting with words.Prasad

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

2 posted 2008-07-21 09:27 AM

What a bountiful canvas, shimmering with profound personal markers along life's pathway, straightforward even as it meanders through society's complex jungle of distractions.

vandana

Member Patricius

since 1999-10-22

Posts 10463
USA

3 posted 2008-07-21 12:33 PM

good read

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

4 posted 2008-07-21 08:54 PM

this is very, very fine!

I am especially fond of the beginning:

"Life's canvas stretches before me,
the paint slowly drying,
having formed a familiar design
from unfolding experiences.

Into the waning light
pensively I journey,
my picture almost complete
but for some final brush strokes."

most serious and sustained applause for this 'penning'!

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

5 posted 2008-07-21 09:27 PM

Yo WindWalker,

This is fine work.

Everyone has their own canvas. Mine is quite different frm yours, However, they are both beautiful--they are all beautiful, everyones.

Bobby

ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-02-22

Posts 9353
Michigan, USA

6 posted 2008-07-22 07:46 PM

Outstanding. Personally can relate to the retreat into simpler nature. Excellent imagery. I always enjoy your works. ;0

Earth Angel
Member Empyrean

since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

7 posted 2008-07-22 08:12 PM

One Who Walks With the Wind, your "Life's Canvas" is extraordinary and is being saved to my library as well as to a special folder of poetic, spiritual treasures on my computer. There are several of yours there. ~ I hope you don't mind.

God bless you,
EA

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