I Write Poetry

I Write Poetry
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Perhaps an easier life
Than Van Gogh, Serrat, Cassat
Mortgaging house and home
Sublimating hunger
For canvas, wooden palettes,
Colours squeezed from tubes

Dependent on morning, noon,
or evening light to
Dictate brush-strokes

I paint poetry
(only pen in hand)
Piled-up sentences,
Letters heaped
Across a page,
Solitary self-portraits
Made from words
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Gillian