tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617069594261001276.post1174213350286416997..comments2023-10-02T08:44:14.460-07:00Comments on Kim or Lisa: He PaintsKimolisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16624029898830661332noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617069594261001276.post-49830454569455567252013-06-20T05:06:33.627-07:002013-06-20T05:06:33.627-07:00Thanks everyone for your positive feedback. I actu...Thanks everyone for your positive feedback. I actually wrote this for a regional journal and still not sure if it will be published. <br /><br />Reading the comments it reminded me of an interaction Churchill had with one of his staff.<br /><br />During the war, one of his staff asked if they should cut the funding for the arts and Churchill said that he could not do away with the very thing they were fighting for.Kimolisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16624029898830661332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617069594261001276.post-48833121213539349512013-06-19T20:10:50.225-07:002013-06-19T20:10:50.225-07:00...an artist is not an artist until one believes b......an artist is not an artist until one believes by heart & not by eyes... very well penned... smiles...kelvin s.m.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02591849636814413110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617069594261001276.post-28457179089366956352013-06-19T16:59:21.418-07:002013-06-19T16:59:21.418-07:00I love this...Somehow,
My daughter's boyfriend...I love this...Somehow,<br />My daughter's boyfriend<br />Captured more than her likeness,<br />He captured her soul<br />And the souls of the women<br />Before her.... to me art is a gift and the fact that he captured her soul shows how much he loves her. Wonderful!ayalahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13243362803799877014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617069594261001276.post-18116381277217395852013-06-19T14:25:54.384-07:002013-06-19T14:25:54.384-07:00He paints for the same reason that we write; not b...He paints for the same reason that we write; not because it pays the bills (unless you're Stephen King, Ian Rankin, JK Rowling, Wilbur Smith or Patricia Cornwell) but because we want to perform miracles; he with paint, we with words.<br /><br />The trouble is, no-one can see how awful the world would be without people like us trying to awaken others to the beauty it contains, so they don't value what we do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617069594261001276.post-78091083543149923022013-06-19T07:39:34.965-07:002013-06-19T07:39:34.965-07:00he SEES her...i think that's the magic...she&#...he SEES her...i think that's the magic...she's in good hands with him...smilesClaudiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03011763027311966186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617069594261001276.post-86294487148354624212013-06-18T18:18:16.162-07:002013-06-18T18:18:16.162-07:00I love this story and I can relate to the impracti...I love this story and I can relate to the impracticality of arts and not earning much ~ I specially like the part of discovering the painting of her daughter and seeing the souls of the women before her ~ Gracehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02213172239590722747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617069594261001276.post-87341199006715849302013-06-18T16:24:25.757-07:002013-06-18T16:24:25.757-07:00This really touched me. This really touched me. Laurie Kolphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07494759781947881343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617069594261001276.post-81223105195659212462013-06-18T15:27:26.052-07:002013-06-18T15:27:26.052-07:00This is a unique and precious poem. It caught my a...This is a unique and precious poem. It caught my attention at once and never let me down. Beautiful!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617069594261001276.post-89249781242359169252013-06-18T15:27:23.859-07:002013-06-18T15:27:23.859-07:00This is a unique and precious poem. It caught my a...This is a unique and precious poem. It caught my attention at once and never let me down. Beautiful!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617069594261001276.post-65276287498920535432013-06-18T14:46:21.524-07:002013-06-18T14:46:21.524-07:00and while that bit of magic may not put a ton of f...and while that bit of magic may not put a ton of food on the table, that he can see that much into her...that should bear some promise i would imagine...Brian Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722940075884718007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617069594261001276.post-78479946286122297192013-06-18T08:35:25.060-07:002013-06-18T08:35:25.060-07:00The economy of vision isn't measured in money ...The economy of vision isn't measured in money - you capture that so well.<br /><br />@fireblossom, that was a Washington Post experiment - google "Stop and Hear the Music" on youtube and you'll find the video.<br /><br />~ Mgrapelinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14929030339206629628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617069594261001276.post-71474010974573817382013-06-18T07:12:13.752-07:002013-06-18T07:12:13.752-07:00This poem too paints a picture, of how we perceive...This poem too paints a picture, of how we perceive what is important in life, and how it takes something personal and meaningful to our own selves to break down preconceptions and actuate real change within us. Very well done.hedgewitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13090696134322515899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617069594261001276.post-25930911622512273652013-06-18T06:28:19.460-07:002013-06-18T06:28:19.460-07:00Lovely, Kim. I would like to know the background ...Lovely, Kim. I would like to know the background for your inspiration to write this?<br /><br />When people ask what my older daughter does, I always say, "She writes music." Then I'll be asked, "does it sell" and I'll answer, "she hasn't sold any." My daughter is in her early 50's. <br /><br />Her husband has a job and likes her this way, he says, "That's Susie."<br /><br />So I understand this poem very well, both my daughter and the your poet's friend capture souls, spirits, and essences of beings. Would that we could/would do this with our poetry. <br />..<br /><br />Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02982249173214655060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617069594261001276.post-80513272657035697352013-06-18T05:29:50.822-07:002013-06-18T05:29:50.822-07:00"He paints.
No he does more than
Paint, he fr..."He paints.<br />No he does more than<br />Paint, he freezes people<br />In time, taking their<br />Likeness and spirit and<br />Trapping them on canvas."<br /><br />WOW ..... this - this is an exquisite description of good art, succinctly summarized in the last two lines...<br /><br />"He does not paint,<br />He performs miracles."<br /><br /><br />Beautiful work, Kim!<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10094116226854880072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617069594261001276.post-62542937112525404492013-06-18T05:24:48.417-07:002013-06-18T05:24:48.417-07:00I love this. I can't tell you how often people...I love this. I can't tell you how often people have regarded my passion for poetry as something akin to collecting astrolabes, or making milk jug lanterns, or something. Some quaint, useless, impractical thing that reasonable people left behind in high school English. It's dispiriting. But you've captured it, here. Every time I write, I am trying to perform a miracle. <br /><br />I read about an experiment someone did, where they had a top level violinist, one who performs the most difficult pieces with the most respected orchestras for elaborate fees, stand in a corner of the subway and play. He chose pieces that very few people have the skill to play well. Hardly anyone stopped to listen. Here was a performance one would pay bookoo dollars to hear, normally, and it was free, and everyone was in too much of a hurry. The only ones who wanted to stay and listen were children. I think we have been taught, as a society, that beauty is something we don't have time for, that we don't even know that we need. <br /><br />Anyway...I loved this story poem, and the way that it built, and what it had to say. it made my morning.Fireblossomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617069594261001276.post-18129373742112367072013-06-17T09:41:16.200-07:002013-06-17T09:41:16.200-07:00Excellent and wise.Excellent and wise.Buddah Moskowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839068145732552328noreply@blogger.com