Oh, goody, Poetry Time again! · 3:20pm Oct 12th, 2012
I wanted to make a poem without any rhyming in it, because I have never done it before, and this is the result. Uh, enjoy, I suppose.
A Worldly Watercolour
At the start, there was black. Warm and comforting, I wait, a blank canvas for the world.
And then, an explosion of colour. Reds, yellows, and fiery oranges all swirl in rush, eager to paint themselves upon my mind.
Others come next, sparkling emerald greens and sapphire blues astound me, their vibrancy forming the first coat of life.
Then, the tall bright pillars of emotions that have been with me since the beginning,
Begin to mould me, to form me with their beliefs, feelings, and dreams of every hue.
They are both sculpture, and sculptor, and under their careful hands I become something new, both belonging to and apart from my makers.
And still the colours come, the many shades of the world rushing in a torrent around me, smoothing away my self, my being, my soul.
Yet even as I am changed, I trail my thoughts behind, the vivid patterns of my experiences adding to the vast pallet of the universe.
And someday, when I am aged and tinged with grey, my canvas will be filled, and I shall stand as a work of art beside the billions who came before me, and my colours will return to the Earth, sinking through the soil, through the rock, and down into the collective hearts of all the people.
And there they will stay, swirling through stars and spirits, waiting for one to hold up a paintbrush, and begin work on one more portrait, the fibres streaked through with pigments of my life, adding to the mural of existence.
Shorter than my last one, but with a slightly less tongue in cheek tone. Please don't laugh...
Interesting… I like the idea of the canvas of life; metaphors always work brilliantly in poetry. A somewhat deep and almost philosophical view on reality and the opportunity one has to experience it. Very good, I think! You should do some more.
418061 Heh, thanks. I will endeavor to put up any more poetry that I can come up with on here.