Letters, Artwork and Inspiration

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Thought I would take up the OP/FB challenge.

Letters, Artwork and Inspiration

 

The notes I write to myself

Create visions in my mind

I hear them, put them on the shelf

Til’ the next, gentler time

 

Though written to ward off perspiration

At later date, become inspiration

And light the path where I have been

Then beckon me to the place I am going

 

The art, a work in progress always;

Not until a thousand years completed.

Even if worked on all my days,

or at the right hand I am seated;

 

I pray will be taken off the shelf

And create visions in your mind

Hear them, put them on the shelf

Then let them be your sublime

 

Read them through your conflagrations

To quench your thirst for knowing

They will show you the path we are on

And where the crossroads are going

 

Menageries, collages will always collide

With the art you think you see

But take a look anyway

Be still, be still

            Be still and just be.

 

120210343p © JeanMarie

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Luwonda commented on Letters, Artwork and Inspiration

02-20-2011

Very good poem! Thank you for the written artwork because I like the idea of the vision of the imaginaion of the mind.

jeanpnkldyg

02/21/2011

I'm glad you enjoyed!

StandingBear commented on Letters, Artwork and Inspiration

12-06-2010

JeanMarie, such a pleasant work you've created, responding to the OP/FB challenge. Excellently written and most entertaining! Bear

jeanpnkldyg

12/06/2010

I'm glad you enjoyed! Christmas greetings coming your way! Good catch!

Olan01 commented on Letters, Artwork and Inspiration

12-02-2010

Ain't that the truth, write or sweat to death, smile. Some how or some way it has to emerge and blosom or whither away in the recesses of our mind.

jeanpnkldyg

12/02/2010

Thank you for taking the time to read!

Chaos128 commented on Letters, Artwork and Inspiration

12-02-2010

"The art, a work in progress always;/ Not until a thousand years completed. / Even if worked on all my days, / or at the right hand I am seated;" My favorite stanza of an excellent piece. The idea of a work of art that takes a lifetime to complete, is an entirely unique and original one.

jeanpnkldyg

12/02/2010

Thank you. Many Returns

To have great poets there must be great audiences too.

Walt Whitman, American Poet (1819-1892)

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