Sunday, November 19, 2006

SELF PORTRAIT #9 : IF I WERE A PAINTING

self portrait #9: if i were a painting


if i were a painting
i’d be blurred contours
thick with texture and mystery

id be of limited colour
with smudged grey outlines
and razor sharp white streaks
added as an afterthought

i would not be done with precision
but abstract and surreal
a conceptual work instead of
clear and defined

id be loving irony
in soft diminutive glimpses
of paradise blues

id be thin vivid lines of
orange and yellow worked over
red glimpses through thick
grey and black minutes
forced into green shadows

my mind would be
empty boxes with blue lines
pointing to something like
the soul

my heart would be a
red square in black lines
beating difference


i would be studied
but never understood
and it would be never
before anyone noticed the
viole[n]t streak in this
backdrop of red
worked over black




copyright JANEisnotplain 2006




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