The artist of the unknown
Paints slowly on a small window
His art is his centre piece
His tranquility of rain
The light brush whispers tall told tales
Engraved on the etched glass
Slowly the artist paints
Perfection to be done
The paint begins to fill the window now
It will soon be done
Slowly it takes shape
Filling the hole that was once known
A multitude of colours
One true inspiration to behold
A life time of work
That’s all he had got
Fulfilled now is his masterpiece
His destiny now to begot
The painting
Etched in glass
Finished now
As he takes his last breathe
Now it lay beneath a plaque
For all to admire
His life’s long task
Author notes
This is about filling that hole where you need to fulfil your destiny, I chose to use a painter that finished his master piece after a life time of waiting for the right picture to come to his mind. So in other words he fallowed his destiny and found what he was always waiting for. Now others look up to him because he took a small idea and made it great. And the deeper meaning to this is no matter what the idea is or the dream you can make it happen and you can make it great and it can happen. This is as best I can explain it
A contest entry
- Do you have what it takes by Improv Machinery.
400 points, ended July 5, 2007, 21 entries
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Comments
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great
i just love the metaphors. i can kind of correlate it to something like mozart's requiem or something of the like. but this painter actually finished the job. one pointer though, add a few spaces at the end of your poem so that the readers attention doesnt get immediately sidetracked to the author notes. other than that, great write and good luck in the contest. -
I rather like peoms that tell stories . This one is really good I like it.
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