Broken Art Poem by Yvonne Rautenbach

Broken Art

Rating: 5.0


Beloved tools unstirred
They are strangers
Brushes, pencils, pens
Erased from my picture
Daily I glance at them and mutter
'When I have time - another year
Perhaps another life.'
Where did time go?
Drawn away with my breaths?
My heart rigid in a pencil box
My soul embalmed in oils
My body dried like tempura
Smiling weakly like a Madonna
without a Child.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
George F. Hunter 22 August 2009

Good thoughts. I know the feeling.

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Matt Johnston 20 September 2008

Definitely going in my favorites, and I keep out the riffraff. There are cleaver lines here, the best I’ve read today and I’ve read a lot today. The ending is memorable.

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, aryaindia 17 September 2008

I cherish the beautiful sentiments you express so well in your poem. wishes with best intentions, arya

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Lee Sharon 03 August 2008

art is never a stranger to me it is life to me, art is never broken it is alway beauty even if it come ut nothing,

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