Painting With Watercolours

By Art of the Diver

Fri, 25 Oct 2013
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Paint me

in your worst efforts to flatter

colourlessly, with no depth or sense of purpose

 

Paint me

in your most scathing criticism

a self portrait of unrequited desire and envy

 

Paint me

in your stormy, angry moods

just scatter my heart across a canvas barred

 

Paint me

in a moment of vulnerable honesty

to bless the world in a spectrum of your true talents

 

Or just paint me

in the pure context of who I am

and show me all the colours you find within my soul

 

If you choose the right watercolours

I promise that you will truly see

every tone every contrast, every need to be

and the texture of your subject shown completely, openly

but it takes a true heart to ever really paint, the real me

 

* Words by Rob Pearldiver *

Copyright © 2013 Art of the Diver with all rights reserved.

Certificate 15
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Those Small Things That Count
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Comments

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

I loved the original style of this poem Rob.  Wonderfully visual with a hint of the unknown.  I think your colours would be blue...green and brown,  don't ask me why,  I just have this feeling.  Jenny.

 

Submitted by Art of the Diver on

Hi Jenny, cheers for your excellent review of this piece... glad you liked this poem which I did enjoy writing.. Now... my colours - ah your feeling has been partially right in your guess, but I'm not yet going to disclose in what regard atm... you are picking up on nature's colours, yet there are many sides us Kiwis laugh  Rob