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Poetry
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About Zen OlearyTimeline (1943 - ) |
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Paint me on the day with tongues of light.
Use your palette knife, spread me thick in ridges and whorls of scarlet and ochre. Climb me up the sky in great streaks of color that dance and blend. Send the light through me till I glow from within and the canvas sings. Fling me onto lines of mountains till I form ravines and escarpments of siena and umber, till you can taste pumas and goats in the shadows. Lay me smooth in lake waters filled with fish and aquatic leaves whose iridescence tiles the surface with rose madder and olive green. Dream me from the darkness of this night till first light runs its fingers around me and paints me in gold and coral, till I bloom into dawn still wearing the umbers and blues that round me and give me form. Frame me in your soul and say it is good.
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Ivan
M. Granger's original poetry, stories and commentaries are Copyright ©
2002 - 2008 by Ivan M. Granger.
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