Entered in Shadows & Light Round 80 |
This poem is entered in Round 80 of "Shadows and Light Poetry Contest" Picturing Life A gathering of art supplies in January drawing the familiar or whatever comes to mind surprising even oneself with long neglected visions of color and portraits on a page The van from amazon brings most of the tools, those not bought at the local Barnes and Noble Charcoal pencils draw portraits of faces even a picture of a basset hound emerges But this basset hound is not real does not wag its tail or kiss my face when I sleep In my picture the dog is friends with the cat outside Like most fiction, this would never happen Although there is a very persistent black cat that only wants to give affection to a certain basset hound who has had some bad experiences with cats and is a bit hesitant to say the least You would be hesitant too, if snapped at enough times Reckoning that the risk wasn't worth any imagined reward the cat never gives up trying, even making friends with the amazon delivery truck driver She runs to the front door step, with hope at every delivery, hoping to be friends with someone, anyone while the basset hound snores quietly in one of her beds dreaming of being drawn in pictures without cats in sparkling fields of gold on a day that feels like summer in January and the sun shines forever... and art is in the eye of the beholding canine judge 28 Lines |