A painter without a brush

poetry and short stories 1 Minute

https://dversepoets.com/2021/03/23/poetics-the-poet-as-painter/

WRITTEN FOR DVERSE

Thank you Laura for a challenging prompt tonight at poetics on tuesday.

the poet as a painter indeed

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Part 1

An empty canvas on easel

 in front of frustrated artist.

A dark sunrise in lens’s sight

Irritates photographer.

An empty ink well

Sits upon a perturbed poet’s desk.

The artists finds their Lost brush

And paints the stars and beyond.

Photographer removes lens cap

Captures sunrise over last nights bed.

Poet picks up ball point pen

Putting the sun to bed as the stars rise.

Part 2

Graze of green and black

Tree tops I see above jungle paradise.

Yellow scuffed over blue

Sunshine reflected from calm sea delight.

Yellow cohorts with red over white

Catches my eye like a firecracker over my highlighted head.

Finally finished with yellow speckled black

Of the stars sparkling my pleasure.

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6 thoughts on “A painter without a brush”

  3. I enjoyed the pondering in Part 1, Rog, the comparison of artist, photographer and poet, and the way they approach heaven and its sun and star rises, with the poet ‘putting the sun to bed as the stars rise’. I love how part 2 explodes with colour and ‘Catches my eye like a firecracker’!

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  4. I like how you pose problems for all the artists and then solve them!
    In part 2, the
    “Graze of green and black” is a most memorable line.
    p.s. thank you for joining in – the title should really be referenced as Richter – except I made an error there (oops) and it is really ‘abstract iii’ of his I featured- he is of course the painter without a brush.

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