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Without a word - you speak to me through particles of pigmentation
For centuries held within the grip of linseed oil
Where now I gaze upon  the many faces that you wore
And their beauty shakes  me to the very core
For in each one I see and  feel the life you lived 
All the different stages -  on which you played
Each faze of life - portrayed in raw emotion
So powerfully and brilliantly displayed:
Surprise, confusion, anger and mockery,
Humbleness, arrogance and gaiety
Contentment, resentment, agitation and condemnation 
Impatience, sadness, bitterness, and sorrow
And finally resignation  all conveyed - 
In vibrant shades of autumn leaves
That without a word, so loudly and profoundly  - speak to me.

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Written:  July  8, 2011 - 0:03 a.m.
Inspired By Brian Strand’s contest: 
POETA -ANY FORM/ THEME max 15 lines

Awarded: 1st Place
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Note from author as taken from Time Life Library of Art:

No artist has left a loftier of more penetrating persoanal testament
than Rembrant van Rijn.  In more than 90 portraits of 
himself that date from the outset of his career in the 1620's 
to the year of his death in 1669, he created an 
autobiography in art that is the equal of the finest ever produced 
in literature---even of the intimately analytical Confessions of St. Augustine.

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