Exceptional free verse Word Games : Sketchings by estory

I Put pen To paper And watch it curve, Open, unfold, imagine Worlds of places Carrying you away Off the flat and rectangular; Day dreaming yourself Into rainbows of colors, Shapes shifting across the spectrum, The wide open expanse Of possibilities reaching out II From within. Discover The shapes come clean, After some pain; Prodigal sons and daughters Torn from their portraits, Lost in the newspapers, In the news reels on television sets, Becoming caricatures of dreams, Masks of feelings Glimpsed in the mirrors Of the tilted canvas. III The paper Folds hands Folding paper dolls Holding hands Describing love and desire Like braille speaking in tongues In the silence of the streets Where faces in the crowd Ask questions with their eyes. IV Somewhere in the Yukon Or Northwest Territories, Beyond many rivers, In uninhabited mountains, Where fields of wildflowers Still bloom, untouched. I could stand here forever. Sometimes I don't want to leave. Author Notes This is a poem of the creative process, of making poems, or art, out of imagination, feelings, relationships, and a longing for peace. The fragmented format speaks of the fragmented nature of life, the pieces that seem to add up to something, an abstraction of experience. estory

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