Defiled strokes
On soiled canvas
Once vibrant flecks
Destroyed by madness
Disarray strewn
In flagrant display
Immortally disfigured
In austere grey
Regretfully imprinted
On a heart of black
Never to find
Her way back
© 2019 Michelle Cook
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Powerful use of words. I could feel the emotions in the words. A amazing poem.
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Thank you… ❤️
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You are welcome M.
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Deep….good….and deep
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Thank you Sarah. 😉 I was in that kinda mood.
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Oh this is so good! I think you should pick yourself as poem of the month!! ❤️
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Think you… I really do love writing poems about paintings. Seems to bring out something inside me that I just can’t quite reach any other way. Guess I should start using picture prompts more often. They really seem to move me.
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It’s amazing the things they invoke. I love the prompts, like, Sue Vincent’s WritePhoto, Helene Vaillant (Willow Poetry), What Do You See? and Susi Bocks Haiku/Senryu Challenge. You should try one of those, or all of them! LOL
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There are always so many, and yet so little extra time. 😉
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So many classes, so little time? lol
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May 2021 is when I’ll be officially done! 😉
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Ugh! Two more years of no ~M writing? Well, less ~M writing LOL OK, I guess I can deal with it…
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Lol… I’m still here. Just on a smaller scale. I’m trying to learn illustration, and book cover design. Think of all I’ll be able to do with those kinda skills. 😉
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I’m really happy for you. That’s really cool. Maybe I can even get you to do one of my covers! 😉
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That’s one of my goals; to have my own business working as a designer. So we’ll see… 😉
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Awesome! That’s a great goal to set. ❤
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❤️
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