Black painting square is on the cutting
edge of minimal art
Carefully placed, post modern dark, invites
patrons' pale talk.
Lives needing inspirational brush work to
round off purple edges.
Poem revised, April 23, 2021
I have always been a minimalist in my writing
using simple words and no ornamentation
I cannot do iambic pentameter
yet, my writing has a melody and rhythm
I started as a bitty little girl
in an attic room penning stories
negligible
a speck, a smidgen in the scope of this world
I saw a million things from my attic window
the birds, the seasons, the sky
I was bullied in school as a child
so I felt belittled and beaten down
but in my writing I threw off the scars
I still do with words unadorned and pure
I have been to the darkest, fathomless pit
had nothing
been an underling to abuse
kept down
but inside a humble flame burned
and I refused to be diminished one day beyond
so, I crawled up from my pit of nothingness
and I stand here a simple girl
who writes minimal art . . .
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December 19, 2018
Poetry/Free Verse/A Small Little Speck
Copyright Protected, ID 18-1095-610-01
All Rights Reserved. Written under Pseudonym.
A
simple
enigma-
upon a blank
sheet
Minimilist work of Joan Baer
http://www.jobaer.net/paintframe.html
White Vertical, Blue Line (from a set of four, series of 16)
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