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Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts
 …. We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces.
We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box.

Quote- Winston Churchill, Painting as a Pastime.

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That Which Within Art's Paradings, Imitates Life

This beating heart once dwelt within a hidden place
to preserve what I loved and could never replace
in youth, I set my throne in purple-crested hills
in forest's foliage where Nature overspills
safer refuge, a child's most magnificent shield
within that nether realm there my soul never yields.

Dear are the gifts given we so blindly refuse.
As always the same lies we rinse and then reuse.

All this wicked world and all of its savage blades
offered sanctuary in hideous parades
yet in valiant spirit, I knew such was so wrong
I refused, to join its repugnant bustling throngs
decisions made, I have yet to ever regret
those that youthful life and its wild-born journey set.

Dear are the gifts given we so blindly refuse.
As always the same lies we rinse and then reuse.

Now I have survived, in my own time growing strong
I changed my dreams but not ever my youthful song
as time using its power delivered decay
I fear neither its wrath nor its destructive way
for life has taught me, we are but mere molded clay
here today, only to be gone some future day.

Dear are the gifts given we so blindly refuse.
As always the same lies we rinse and then reuse.

Robert J. Lindley, original Sept- 24th-1992
edited, 10/17 2020. 10/18 2020...
Rhyme, ( From Ancient Dead Stars Fly Death's Truest Signs )

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Total number of words:212

Note:
A straightjacket he refused to wear
Claiming life is boring and so unfair
Yet its colors are marvelously grand
And its epic pains more than he could stand
RJL, 1992...
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"From a rainbow, he tore off a delicious piece,
To eat its vanishing visionary release" 
Quote- RJL- 1992.
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