An artist can paint a scene with colors so abstract...
A musician can create sounds that flow from front to back...
But a poet can play with words and form images
that each set of eyes can draw from...
A simple phrase that shouts to one ear can easily
hum to another one...
When you look at a painting you can write what
you see or feel...
As when you play a tune you can scribble words
that will make it alive and real...
My instrument is my pen and my blank sheet is
my canvas...
Together I write from dreams all so precious...
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