Life Watercolor Poems

Pardon for fingers
Body painting my fixed face—
Marking up a scene
Of raw phantasms that look
Like they're falling for my tears....

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My world is watercolor
this body lies somewhere
tangled in the reeds that weave for us, splendid fascinations
I'll show you my sunwashed sky, if you promise to...

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Come to me..
And I will quench.
Umbrella free..
And I will drench. 

Fill your rivers..
Every one.
Morning grass..
I rest upon. 

Cut the rock
In Canyon Grand.
Cool you as
Your skin...

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Small paper airplanes I'd never flown.
Most boys made them, each labled their own
Into the air they'd go toward blue sky,
they'd catch a breeze and away...

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Color the wind a swirling blue
‘Gainst a splash of crimson sky.
Paint the marshes a dozen greens
With egrets white flying by.

Wash the sand with a golden...

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drifting waters
abridging
drenched
pigments
of my memory
whimsically
scatter
homebound
the dyes
staining the
cold pressed
arches
of
my mind's
canvas



Published in my 24-page photo/anthology book ~THE MIND'S CANVAS~ 2023

AP: 2nd place 2020, Honorable Mention 2022

Submitted on July...

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I held the paint brush trembling for I had never,
painted anything in my entire life but had wanted to;
I began with the sky- in my...

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Like watercolor pictures left out in the rain
Our colors have mingled,yet the originals still remain.
Two watercolor paintings without frames,
Became one picture over time,
Yet two of...

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In a cobalt sky,
Embellished with pallid clouds:
Leaden geese fly home.
·
Migration arrow,
Sadly fades before my sight:
Recoiling farewells.
·
The smell of old rain,
A pale past dwells in my...

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