The Blank Canvas

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    I have been dealing with some health issues.  It makes you think back over your life and a bit more about your own immortality. Not morbid as my canvas has LOTS of color!

    The Blank Canvas

    The Blank Canvas

     

    Life is a blank canvas

    It begins white and pure

    Wrapped and fresh

    Innocently waiting

    Splash of red the first day

    Signals the birth is done

    Colors of childhood

    Swirl into one another

    Pink her first dress

    Blue his new jeans

    Green grass underneath

    Yellow shining sun above

    Orange a favored fruit

    Pastels and shades

    Patterns and plain

    Ever-changing

    Sharp and bold

    Old and slow

    Covered in black

     

    ©Laurel Olmsted

    6/16/2009

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    connsk8 commented on The Blank Canvas

    06-17-2009

    Nice perspective on life comparing it to colors, I like that, imaginative and creative and appropriate!
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    MiZZUndER commented on The Blank Canvas

    06-17-2009

    I'm diggin it it's cool the metaphor is really nice..... I get it and the colors rain true Keep it up I like it.
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    Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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