03-13-2011, 08:40 AM
this poem was written after clicking on this link and using the word which it chose randomly (in my case "painting") as inspiration: http://www.chapter19.com/inspiration/index.php
we stare at paintings of people all the time
especially if they're monsters
Genghis Kahn with blood down his bib
a modern art piece with Myra Hindley
composed from black and white children's handprints
or tragic souls like Princess Di
beside a message scrawled in red
![[Image: myra2.jpg]](http://wa4.images.onesite.com/blogs.telegraph.co.uk/user/victoria_holman/myra2.jpg)
![[Image: Vine-Hi-Paul.jpg]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/10/Vine-Hi-Paul.jpg)
we stare at paintings of people all the time
especially if they're monsters
Genghis Kahn with blood down his bib
a modern art piece with Myra Hindley
composed from black and white children's handprints
or tragic souls like Princess Di
beside a message scrawled in red
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe