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Sunshine

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

0 posted 2012-06-09 11:41 PM

Age & Eye Perspective

Never having possessed any form
of artistic ability in the finer ability
of sketching or drawing
still
I was always prone to a blank sheet
of paper
laid horizontally
before me…
[mayhap as I hadn’t found my words yet]
taking a pencil or pen or more likely crayon
I would start at the left, about three
fourths up from the bottom and draw
a curved line from
here
         to
              there
about one-half way down and then level the line
out
      as if it were a
                             sloping hill.
Not to replicate but add back ground, I would add
a new curved line, approximately from the
                                                                    middle
of the page
and raise it upwards to the end of the page
on that horizontal paper
so there were two swells in the background.
Then I would lay a pathway down between
the small mounds, drawing them forward
on the page where at its very end
I would draw a wishing well.
It seems all of my adolescent drawings had a
    clear sky, sunshine,
         swelling mounds, and a pathway
                        to a wishing well.
With age in my eyes
and perspective of hindsight
    I now see that
       in all that time, by pen, or pencil
           or crayon
                       the picture was of
me.

© KRJ 6-9-12

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2012-06-10 05:57 AM

Yes. I can understand why it would be, Karilea. YOU were the center of the universe at the time and place. Other distraction hadn't showed up yet, you were you.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

chourouk
Member

since 2012-05-29

Posts 52

2 posted 2012-06-10 08:24 AM

How wonderful sailing between your words.
Thank you for your fingers which writes whith golden letter.

My respect
Chourouk

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

3 posted 2012-06-10 09:28 AM

hello sunshine, just be yourself, the world keeps on spinning, thanks for the superb and touching poem, very well crafted and thoughtful, bravo,

yann

Startime1955
Senior Member

since 2012-04-22

Posts 1072
Alberta, Canada

4 posted 2012-06-10 12:32 PM

I love the flow and curves of this poem taking us back to you...wonderful reading...*BIG HUGS*

*may our dreams ever be magical*

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

5 posted 2012-06-10 12:59 PM

Excellent self analysis, Karilea. Who needs Freud?
Ida

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

6 posted 2012-06-10 05:10 PM

Wonderful discovery, dear Karilea. I so agree, in drawings or paintings we represent our very core ... and I am not surprised that your skies were always blue ... after all the Sun was the star of the scene in every sense!

Beautiful!

Margherita

Gentle Spirit
Member Patricius

since 2000-10-09

Posts 13989

7 posted 2012-06-10 06:09 PM

And you are a beautiful you, and this is incredible writing.

Oh how I have missed your words 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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