Dabbing and jabbing
colorful words grabbing
the canvas
conceiving
relieving
my creativity reliving
the experiences
of my life
dropping
hitting the paper
not stopping
mixing and blending
intensity
sending
messages
retrieving
memories pretending
too vast
fast
slipping into the past
never too late
hit the page
in great feverish debate
depicting
pictorial landscapes
to date
poetry, painting
swirling
slanting
dream catching
panting
utterly entrancing
dancing
upon the plate
glass-
scraping
screeching
brush rotating
sweeping
great strokes
of colorful words
straightening
the canvas
stretching
reaching
for thoughts
escaping
then enlightening
words soaring
heightening the fury
circling the canvas
completing
but,
never leaving.
This poem expresses the feelings and thoughts I often experience while I am in the creative process of painting, or writing poetry.
This painting I did was sold at an auction to benefit a coworker who was diagnosed with breast cancer.
It is called, “Abstract Divide” , oil on canvas. Since then, the friend is doing wonderful, is happily married and has a little boy.
Art and Poetry © [Jay Mora-Shihadeh]
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