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Tattered Canvas by: Bhim Pandya

The tale of Michael and Angela

Art at the Art store

18" x 24"?

 

maybe too small love

36" x 48" ?

maybe too big love

30" x 40"?

maybe the right size love

Enough for two people to paint

Warm and cool colors Love?

I like to be in nature love

In a Wheatfield with cypresses then?

We can sit there and eat potatoes love...

Or on the terrace of a café love?

Under the starry night looking for shooting stars in the irises

Past the stroke of midnight

Actually a full hour and forty three minutes past the stroke of midnight

Lets create a Van Gogh love 

And we can whisper and hear for we both have ears

I am warm and ready to go

 

I am cool and ready to go

 

A roll from here, to and fro

 

Water and color, warm and cool

 

Coming together on a canvas 

 

A warm here and a stroke there

 

A roll there and a cool here

Dipping and stroking covering the canvas

Riiiiippppppppppp...

 

At last, out of paint and complete
 

The canvas love

What happened love?

The canvas love

What happened love?

It Tattered...

 


 

What is this poem about?

It is about two artists who are in love with art and...  They purchase a giant canvas and decide to paint together.  As artists, they possess individual artistic preferences. While one likes to use paint brushes the other a roller, one cool colors, the other warm.  In their effort to paint a picture, they end up tearing the canvas apart. It is supposed to be funny. 

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