Paint
the creation of your one life
Paint
Hopper said it
as did Ferlinghetti
paint the light
paint the world
paint yourself
put brush strokes on
the angel at the end of the bar
color the child at play
place pigment on the sun
paint the song without words
The work of the poet
is the work of the human touch
Paint the rumbling of the train
the cry of the sea
the mussels in the bay
the silence on a mountain top
paint your mother
Paint your one magical life.
~ inspired by Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s How to Paint Sunlight
Ferlinghetti’s Old Italians Dying is an ode to me.
Lovely!