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Acrylic Paint Poems - Poems about Acrylic Paint

october brushed by

...october brushed by

 in the midst of an october sunrise
 bearing splashes of colors beyond description
 like a thick acrylic paint mixture
 crimson with cadmium yellow
 thrown…scattered ...

Categories: acrylic paint, color, god, october,
Form: Free verse

Acrylic

...I take a step back and look at my canvas with inches of acrylic paint piled on as a result of trial and error.
Something is off. 
Are the tones mismatched?
Why is it unbalanced?
Do I no longer li...

Categories: acrylic paint, anxiety, emotions, growth, identity,
Form: Free verse

Saul

...Acrylic paint and dust. I can taste sunlight. Hear wind-chimes that have not been invented yet. That have already disintegrated into the deserts of the apocalypse. 

I am at home in this living roo...

Categories: acrylic paint, beauty, bible, god, grief,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Paint Strokes

...Ebony braids, moon misplaced
Indigo inferno flames
Speckled iris, abstract face

Drowsy eyes, acrylic paint
Haunted ash tree, trailing bleak
Torrid patchwork women faint

Pigeons perch on...

Categories: acrylic paint, art,
Form: Rhyme

My Christmas Wishes

...For Christmas I want fuzzy warm socks.
Everyone knows it, and they are affordable.
So people can keep their big money for their children’s gifts.

If you have homemade fudge, of course I want tha...

Categories: acrylic paint, christmas,
Form: Free verse

Soggy-Hearted 9-20-21

...When I was fifteen I had a soggy heart
“Paint what it feels like”
So I painted my heart, dripping in sorrow 
The cheap acrylic paint left their printer paper as soggy as the heart I had made
I’m ...

Categories: acrylic paint, 10th grade, childhood, depression,
Form: Free verse

Paintbrush

...Over the ocean in a far away land,
My lover sits with a steady hand.
Splashing lashings of acrylic paint;
Upon a surface with no restraint.
He smudges, swirls and smears it in,
Traditional art w...

Categories: acrylic paint, art, culture, love, relationship,
Form: Rhyme

Painter Me

...Green on my fingers, 
pink and purple too.
Acrylic paint lingers,
Ah! There is red and blue.

When I paint I’m such a mess,
Ruin my clothes every time.
Outer beauty must confess.
Truly hidden...

Categories: acrylic paint, art,
Form: Rhyme

Garden-Loving, Ink-Stained Hands

...I have garden loving hands.
Painters hands.
A poet's hands.
Ink-stained, acrylic paint splotches,
dirt under my broken and split 
fingernails.

Here I sit, observing today's
experiences on my...

Categories: acrylic paint, garden,
Form: Free verse

On One Knee

...if you wanted to dance with me
i mean really wanted to dance with me
then i would
i would dance with you

if you needed me to walk on water
i would stand there until the lake froze
then i woul...

Categories: acrylic paint, celebration, for her, i
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Primal Questions

...Do I want to only look at new ones,
never been used,
or is that a too restrictive market,
too competitively priced
for virginity of place and relationship on Earth?
And, is such redemptively-int...

Categories: acrylic paint, career, change, destiny, humor,
Form: Narrative

Deserted Cocoon

...he was the crusty cocoon covering the caterpillar
boneless, yet filled with vibrant life, and belittling
the very source of her security, and the sacrifices
the casing made to transform frailty and u...

Categories: acrylic paint, beauty, butterfly, caregiving, change,
Form: Free verse

How It Was - and Is

...I was painting – a painting painting – 
and when that right moment arrived 
I went deep into the manic time, the flying zone. 
For those readers who have never gone flying, 
let me tell you it is the...

Categories: acrylic paint, on work and working,
Form: Free verse