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to enjoy a beautiful painting of a rose.
Under the painting is the suggestion that we should use this example of a
Pink Rose
to Thank someone.
My thanks are tinged with envy.
ENVIOUS THANKS
Thank you to all the artists in my life,
Whose works have satisfied an inner me.
It cuts me like the very sharpest knife
To know cack-handed I will ever be.
How is it that I know just how it feels
To see a vision right behind my eyes,
And yet my effort once again reveals
I've failed, despite a thousand tries.
An artist dreams a dream and then propels
The picture on to canvas without pain,
I dream and then the foolish hand rebels
And I am left with rubbish once again.
Where is the flaw? In arm or hand or eye?
Where is the break between the brain and page?
My wings have simply never learned to fly;
My actors never strut on any stage.
So thankyou for the second-hand delight
I feel when others paint as I should do.
Jealousy-clouded thoughts obscure the sight,
But .... 'Thank you for the joy that comes from you'.
