Painting Your Face Poem by Kyle Schlicher

Painting Your Face

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i paint your face
with velvet brushes
to soften the image
i try to recall
after years of not
seeing you.
i assume you
have aged well
if there is even
such a thing.

i paint your face
from memory
of years ago
when you and I
were young.
i add a colorful flair,
sassy undertones
to capture the spirit
that was you.

i paint your face
with my eyes closed
so as to better remember
the smile
that seemed
to always be
the center of my universe.
i sleep at night
painting your face.

(6-12-1977)

Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: Love
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Chinedu Dike 27 March 2020

Beautiful and compassionate work of art, lovely and very passionate. Thanks for sharing.

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Pamela Sinicrope 20 November 2015

I kind of love this artistic poem, an interplay of memory, painting and writing. I can feel the magical velvet brushes that can portray a woman's soul as it fades away.

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N. K. 25 July 2014

A wonderful and sweet poem, which creates pictures. Keep on, please. Thank you, for sharing this.

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Anna Garland 23 July 2014

That's beautiful. And what an intruiging idea that one day you might think like this about a person who is so close to you now, that you cannot imagine not seeing their face grow old..

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Leah Ayliffe 23 July 2014

This is a gorgeous poem. Wonderful illustrations. Thanks!

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