Each of the artist’s
brushes that bristle in pots
are like the pens poised
on the poet’s desk top.
Accretions of crusty paint
are tiny self-portraits on the palette
like words on the poet’s pages,
paper or screen, all sense distilled
into vivid marks and images.
Kim M. Russell, 15th July 2024
Image by Jennie Razumnaya on Unsplash
My response to the Living Poetry Monday Poetry Prompt: Each, Paper, Sense, where we are writing poems including the words ‘each’, ‘paper’ and ‘sense’, three words randomly chosen from a list of the top 1000 words in the English language.
writing in north norfolk 
“sense distilled
into vivid marks and images.”
Love these last two lines.🎨
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Thanks Melissa!
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Great job with the prompt, Kim. I like the comparison of painting to writing poetry.
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Thank you, Nolcha.
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Lovely! Thanks for writing to my little prompt.
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Thank you kindly, Bartholomew.
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