Best No Oil Painting Poems

kind heart ~ ruby slipper red ~ framed for the emerald green tinman

4/2/2018...

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Sand squigging between their toes
Shorts rolled up to keep dry
They walk the shoreline for who knows
What tiny fish might swim by.

A crab maybe might grip a toe
Or a jellyfish might place a sting
Yet, the water looks too grey
Hope for something, anything!

To keep those little boys...

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sky tattooed
all over with autumn’s scent,
tokens of numbness
spread along my heartbeats,
ashes growing wild
around what used to be my soul,
crows waiting for my dreams
to become their holy communion,
and beyond all this, me,
heading towards a one hundred years sleep,
after pricking my fingers in your thorny self…...

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My lesson back then- to paint a still life 
with bright hues, reflections- and shadows too;
of textures and shapes that stand out as real
and grouped in a setting, balanced as art.

Red plate and a round aluminum pan
with apples, oranges there tumbling down;
a silvery teapot- blue...

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