David Zvekic - font color='#880000'A Poet's Art/font

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An artist paints his life from mark to end,
  from mix to finish, like the pigment oils
  that while on painter's pallet blend,
  on canvas cling to boast the master's toils.
O see me through and find such painting plain,
  composed by introspection and long years
  of shock, of distant shores, of light, of pain;
  so with each dab some fuller portrait nears.
And though it were not trivial to frame,
  not trivial at all but love extreme;
  the misery of art is mine to blame,
  and gained by it, my muse, and by your theme:
No life, nor breath, nor other poet's art
  will ever bare so dear the likeness of your heart.

March 16,2006

David Zvekic

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