A Quick Sketch Fetch (A Poetry Stretch)

 

A Quick Sketch Fetch (A Poetry Stretch)

© 2016 Barbara M. Schwarz

 

Purple Eyes Publishing (PEP)

the value of knowing

 

Published by PEP at Shakespir

ISBN: 978-1-910774-76-2

 

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On the front cover “Instead of saying ‘drat’!” 2016

 

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Acknowledgements

For those who keep on going – eventually they get to see an incredible joy in memory of moments happily sketching new reality.

 

 

A Quick Sketch Fetch (A Poetry Stretch)

A Quick Stretch Memory

A quick flight energy

simply now to see

All that’s new to me

 

A quick moment to despair

‘What will I ‘er put there’

 

A quick time just to see

the rudimentary,

an elementary force

to sketch without source

of reason and then

stretch to a brand new

season

 

Time to learn anew

all the things that can come through

 

Release the critic in you

‘Adieu, adieu, adieu’

(that’s probably enough of you…

you weren’t helping much, were you?)

 

That regimented pew

of disdain accrue

only when you’re too

ordered to let go,

but it’s time to show

you are now in open flow

 

A quick stretch

A final fetch

of pure sunshine

when the world is mine,

 

I openly incline

to full-on harvest time

to reap so many thoughts

and have juggled all the thwarts

of imagination – welcome

to a soul creation

an open force and

live sensation

just to push on through

by sketching live

is what I do

 

and in a single sitting,

oh how hard you’re pitting

to give it one good go

and push once more to open

flow

 

delicacy, a winged play of ecstasy

when the sun captures me

open to reality that can hum

anew with a simple sketch I do

 

so play your colours true,

release the inner artist in you

 

and play your colours bold

go beyond what you were told

 

and play your colours bright

all now to new sense alight

 

and in a flight of fantasy

a simple sketch I see

means to so much to me

 

and all the other stuff

hardly means so much

a simple touch on paper

a simple hold of hand

and you start to sketch

what your heart command:

 

a simple sense of going

a simple sense of flowing

in a moment true

that’s now alive in you

 

and when you start accrue

the odd sketch or two

you’ll simply start to laugh

at the delightful things you craft

 

so just give it a go

the artist always show

what leads to greater flow

and helps you then to know

a grander, greater show

(than all those “I told you so”)

 

 

Purple Eyes Publishing

Inner critic

now just pit it hard

release into a shard

life’s final card

a joyful little bard.

 

 

 

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