The world, if it were art.

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Open Poetry #43

The world, if it were art.

PrestonThePoet
Member

since 2007-11-07

Posts 87

0 posted 2008-12-15 12:10 PM

Staring at this painting,
The world condensed,
Into one idea.
Completely black
Except for one corner,
Filled by colors and brilliance,
The paint spelled out something.
Squinting and leaning closer;
It read:
Love.
Colors swirling behind it.
My eyes may deceive me,
But it seems,
Black is seeping to the corner.
Continually shrinking the word;
Until black had overtaken.
Stepping back,
My hand began to change.
Paint sliding up my arm
Overtaking my body,
Leaving nowhere for me to breathe.
Suffocating on the floor;
My last sight was,
The word love,
Big and bold.
Across the whole canvas

Susan Caldwell
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

1 posted 2008-12-15 02:40 PM

Romantic love killed me.

I am sure of it.

so I get this.

"too bad ignorance isn't painful"
~Unknown~

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

2 posted 2008-12-15 03:59 PM

An interesting visual splashes itself behind the eyelids...my desire to see the reversal of darkness brings forth brilliant waves of van Gogh's splashes of primary colors.

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

3 posted 2008-12-15 04:13 PM

This is brilliant, Preston, Love it. Better to be killed by love than the darkness around it.
Ida

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