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The Painter's Dilemma Printable Version PRINTABLE VERSION
by Awais Aftab, Pakistan Aug 28, 2005
Culture   Poetry

  

The Painter's Dilemma The painter's hand moves
On the lamina it hooves
The brush stirs it with magic
To fill with colors, comic and tragic
The dyes whisper to him
Through the Pierian Spring he has to swim
And he sees a yet unpainted vision
On the white paper
With mathematical precision
Images swirl in his mind
Getting more and more refined
The Muses inspire to create
Yet another masterpiece
Enchanting and great
Care not be it moral or immoral
Vespertine or auroral
Leave it to the gods to decide
An artist confined is as one who died
You do what you are told to do:
Paint yourself unto this sheet: construe!
And hide not good or evil
For there is no man without a devil
No prayer without a curse.
No prose without verse.






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Awais Aftab


Writing has been a passion, a love ever since I learned to write. For me, writing is a means of expression of 'secret tears and secret pleasures'. True writing comes from the heart and often it is the one to find you, not you the one to find it. Writing gives me power, the strength to carry on, the will to live and to live in a better way. It helps me find deeper meaning in the world around me and to understand myself much better. I can't survive without writing. For me, my writings are the whispers of life, in which the glory and sorrow of life echoes. For me, these are the glittering tears, whose every flash encompasses a thousand aspects of life. I believe that, 'I write; therefore I am.' However, true ease in writing comes from art, and I still have to learn a lot about that.
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olawale | Sep 2nd, 2005
the poem is quite good. i love it.



Yea, a great work
Odimegwu Onwumere | Apr 3rd, 2006
But I quite disagree with you that, "No prayer without a curse" It should be : No prayer without a cause or course

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