As a Visual Artist
I will say
I love lines…I can
Easily perceive the contours
of what I see — the seams
Bețween things, like
highlighted cheeks sloping
over to long,
straight strings
or looping circles for hair…
Or I picture
The individual leaves
   in a landscape
   having some trees with
Diamonds
Drawn as leaves
   along branches
to give some representation
   of the reality I’m composing,
Adding lines
For the angles and borders between
Lights and darks, hues and tones to
Delineate
The mass of pictured
surrounding things,
Or of those shapes
   the imagination brings,
   seeing that even blotches
   have boundaries,
in a defined space.
I often play with drawing
Letters, enjoying their shapes —
Straight lines, arcs,curves, and circles
   (especially so for calligraphers) lines
Joined to make the words we read
and with some delight,
like lately, I may note for
   a split second’s pause as
I make the sweeps of the ‘S’
— that appear to me like a
S w a n
with her elegant neck ~and
To which I’ll sometimes add a
wee dot at the peak for her head.

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My deep apologies for missing 3 days due to severe illness.  i’m back now……