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Startime
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since 2000-10-03

Posts 5918
Canada

0 posted 2001-11-22 07:00 PM

PICTURE PERFECT

The vision takes form deep within
feeding a need we can't resist
To starve it we will never win
as it struggles to be set free

We take the painting from our soul
putting it on a white canvas
To fill with beauty, rare, our goal
while sharing with those around us

Like a painter we dip our brush
as we bring forth a masterpiece
Strain shows on our face in a blush
laboring over each message

With words at hand we paint the scene
using colors of our talent
Giving life to what we have seen,
creators with pen and paper

With strong emotions our hearts flow
as we open ourselves to view
Words sometimes restrict what we know
that would be shown to all of you

We suffer over what we write
hoping that others can see it
Bringing the vision into light
making it a Picture Perfect

Karen Torbiak 2001©

Love I leave with you whether it is in your life now or yet the essense of your dreams.

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

1 posted 2001-11-22 08:42 PM

Wonderfully said Karen!
How we do ponder over each words trying to make what we write picture perfect.
Well done! hugs, Nancy.

~Life may not be the song you requested,
But as long as you're here you might as well dance~

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

2 posted 2001-11-22 08:48 PM

Thanks, Karen, for painting such a perfectly beautiful picture of the poetic spirit, as it strives to free itself of the bonds of ego.

[This message has been edited by Midnitesun (edited 11-22-2001).]

walker
Member Elite

since 2001-02-11

Posts 2240
Florida

3 posted 2001-11-22 09:46 PM

I think about this sometimes. Great poem.

emily
Member

since 2000-10-03

Posts 142
USA

4 posted 2001-11-22 09:58 PM

this is sooooo sweet!!!!!

Balladeer

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since 1999-06-05

Posts 25505
Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA

5 posted 2001-11-22 11:31 PM

it's a perfection we never fully reach but, in the effort, we succeed.

Very nicely done, Karen

Secret Whisper
Member

since 2001-01-25

Posts 298
Through the Looking Glass

6 posted 2001-11-22 11:55 PM

Beautifully written. And so true. We strive to make words picture perfect to show what we can only feel.
Wonderful write.

Quod me nutrit me destruit.
("What nourishes me also destroys me." - latin)

RSWells
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since 2001-06-17

Posts 2533

7 posted 2001-11-22 11:56 PM

A labor of Love, an obsessive urge and with any luck articulated for others enjoyment. If not then at least a purging.

"Happy people have no history" - French Proverb

[This message has been edited by RSWells (edited 11-22-2001).]

Rex Allen McCoy
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since 2000-01-30

Posts 2863
Sippin a Timmy's in London

8 posted 2001-11-23 01:15 AM

I never seem to be satisfied with what I paint ... my sense of picture perfect gets in my way
You've done well though

vlraynes
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-25

Posts 8229
Somewhere... out there...

9 posted 2001-11-28 11:24 AM

Karen-
  I really enjoyed this.
  Very nicely written.
  Hugs,
  ~Vicky

"...until you have read the verse on his heart,
you have not truly met the poet.
~vlraynes

RosePetal

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since 2001-08-26

Posts 2985
South Florida

10 posted 2001-11-28 11:39 AM

"We suffer over what we write
hoping that others can see it
Bringing the vision into light
making it a Picture Perfect" - So true! It feels so much better when other's relate to what you were describing in your poem!

Another one of my fav lines of your poem was
"Like a painter we dip our brush
as we bring forth a masterpiece"

This is an incredible poem Karen, you've done good! (hugs)

RP

Greeneyes

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-09-09

Posts 9903
In Your Poetic Mind

11 posted 2001-11-28 10:16 PM

Karen,

I cant believe I missed this first time 'round....and as an "artist" I found this....

"Like a painter we dip our brush
as we bring forth a masterpiece
Strain shows on our face in a blush
laboring over each message"

so well expressed.....I enjoyed this....

Greeneyes~

I keep my ideals,
because in spite of everything,
I still believe that
people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank
09*12*01

[This message has been edited by Greeneyes (edited 11-28-2001).]

Eloise
Senior Member

since 1999-11-27

Posts 1096
Wyoming

12 posted 2001-11-28 11:35 PM

How true these words are and a "Picture Perfect" you did paint.

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