Wednesday 12 May 2010

canvas

my brush flows weightlessly
on that canvas
I blindly paint away
my fears on it
the pictures that emerge is beyond me
you are jolted by it
and try to snatch it
I hold on to it ignoring your pleas
to throw it away
I walk out with my canvas
leaving you behind

unknowingly I stripped you bare,
seeing you for what you are
in my mind's eye

21 comments:

  1. Gautami,

    Clearly shows how you come to know true innerself of a person when he or she tries to make you do what he or she feels is right and not what you feel is right. Very well worded.

    Take care

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  2. It can often be a revelation.

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  3. I love the feel of this, great lines. I would think that if you change emerges to emerge it would flow better.

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  4. hi Gautami, yes.. its like you've painted a revelation in your canvas, a true picture of self/one dear...

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  5. Painting fears to make them run away, seeing with mind's eye..well, Heart's eye still may have the last laugh.. Gautami a salute to the wonderful thinker in you.. And thanks for visiting me..do visit again..

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  6. I see what a painter thinks when thinks about his painting. Well done.

    Best wishes
    Ralf

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  7. There's a touch of the eternal here, the writer and the painter intertwined with the everlasting!

    <3

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  8. Good job. It does often take another by surprise when we see their true self.

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  9. Could it be that the painter is a poet in disguise? I loved the thought of stripping the other bare by simply writing weightless words on a page.

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  10. I wonder how it compares to the subject's self-portrait...?

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  11. Gautami, that is very thought provoking and well written!

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  12. I used to paint, so this resonated with me. We can capture so much on canvas. Or with words.

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  13. ...the way we paint a person's mental image and we cling to it in spite of being told that "this is not who I really am" or "you don't know me".
    Great job, Gautami - love it and can relate to it and its emotions.

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  14. What a very interesting idea you managed to flesh out into a lovely poem!

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  15. A painting of our insides would be very interesting.

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  16. to paint an inner person is a scary thing - excellent!

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  17. I like the idea of blindly painting using the mind's eye. Nice!

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  18. "pictures that emerge ... beyond me" -- i like how you've captured that the artistic process has a mind of its own sometimes! and we're often just a conduit for it.

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  19. Hello Gautami! What everybody else has already said! Good work! Nice to visit you again.

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  20. Good post. I also liked the idea of painting fears on the canvas!

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  21. this is a great picasso perspective g... nakedness can be daunting as well as revealing

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