“Self Portrait by Numbers”
Painting by Janne Kearney
From paintingsilove.com
pale blue lines
outline blotches
the shapes and
the shadows of
life by the numbers
faint color codes
cover the mass
produced canvas
designed to create
one more mass
produced portrait
with pigments that
daub and dress
mutual features
of character
common to crowds
save for moments
infrequently fresh
here and there
now and then
when a self-minded
painter flips over
the art board and
makes of its sheer
daunting blankness
a brave handed
bold colored vision
a one-of-a-kind
most remarkable life
Poesy plus Polemics 
Hi Paul. Great to hear from thank you so much for liking my poem ‘ A Dark Shadow Stood!’ Peace and Best Wishes. The Foureyed Poet.
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Hard to be an ‘original’ anymore . . . Madison Avenue has made us all ‘copies’ of stereotypes they tell us are ‘beautiful’ people . . . But it’s all ‘smoke & mirrors’ . . . Thanks for the thoughts . . .
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guess I’m holding my own – never once mistaken for a copy of one of the beautiful people
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I enjoyed the reading of this poem, knowing how it was going to go, but delighted at the steps, the rhymes, the circularity between start and end. And its simple importance. thanks.
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much appreciated
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Lovely! Takes courage to go outside the lines, doesn’t it?!
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definitely
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Just caused me an epiphany! The blank canvas, the blank page it’s all one. It’s like the way I dislike a clutter free home, because the emptiness is a little scary. And I make lists – another avoid the emptiness tactic.
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I think most of what we do in life is, at least in part, to avoid that emptiness
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yes. And yet, if you can learn to embrace it, it can be so enriching. (Recent journey into meditation).
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Amazing choice of subject matter from which to take a parallel slant and thus give it meaning and purpose. Utterly brilliant
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and here I am without a painter’s bone in my body
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well said,takes you through the journey of the masterpiece……
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glad you enjoyed it
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Beautiful poem love the short lines of deep expresion
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thanks kindly
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Thank you for putting words to my painting, I am glad it inspired you so much.
regards Janne Kearney
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your kind words are greatly appreciated
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