Art For Heart's Sake Poem by Dónall Dempsey

ME MADE MORE ME

Quick sketch
&

the gist
of me

travels across
the page

in charcoal

me
made
more
me

by
your loving hands.

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THIS MOMENT OF ME

You draw
me

&
I

come into being
under your hand

fixed upon paper
this moment of me

captured.

Still now
in Time.

Alive.

For...
...ever.

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AS THE KISS IS KISSED

You watercolour
a sketch

as if adding
emotion to it.

Flesh is
made
flesh

& the kiss
held now

in paint

remembers
itself

(and how it was)

the watercolour
bringing it back

to life


as the kiss
is kissed


& kissed


...again.

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THE ME THE PAINT SEES

You paint me.

Flesh & blood
becomes

the ooze of oil

the canvas
taking upon itself

the me
the paint sees

Time &
sunlight

locked) (together

as the painting
becomes itself

settles into
its final version

still yet still
changing.

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