You said I had an interesting face
I knew you loved me then
When pretty girls were always eager
You chose a complicated woman
Not an easy path
Trampling the brittle bones
Of my past
While I would turn back
And try to resurrect them
Never really closing doors
So that the slightest breeze
Would blow them open
Oh, how you begged me
To give you the keys
But their weight in my pocket
Was a strange comfort to me
As if the chance to keep looking
At the scorched earth outside
Would remind me of the love
I now possessed
But even after all this time
With all your reassurances
And the absolute surety of your love
I can’t help but wonder if
You would have been happier
If my face was less interesting
Lovely Meg. 😘
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Thank you Paul! 😘
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I love this poem do much! You are an anazing poetess.
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Oh Holly, you’re too kind! I rarely feel truly confident about my poetry. Nevertheless, I take this as a high compliment coming from a truly talented poetess like you! ❤️
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This is a work of art, moving and eloquent. ❤
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Thank you so much! ❤️
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❤️🌺
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❤️
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😃
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“Oh, how you begged me
To give you the keys
But their weight in my pocket
Was a strange comfort to me”
I LOVE these lines, Doc! Fantastic sketch as well. 😊
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Thank you! I like when I can put one with the other. 😃
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Pulled it off perfectly with this one. 😃
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Is love ever an easy path? Great poem!
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No I suppose it isn’t! Thank you, Peter!
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Wonderful story and great portrait. My experience with them is you will do tens and tens, perhaps hundreds. Each will look a bit like you, but also not. I like that in your profile portrait and In the one of your character, you don’t use too much dark b/c it’s hard to take back. I tend to love that darkness and removing some of it to the white of paper (or whatever paper shade). Or, a bit to show a bit of light grey & different tones. Although the downside is you can make your portrait appear much older than your subject lol. Hair is great fun. Tiny erasers with almost pointy endswork great 🙂
Have you played a lot with charcoal yet? The vine charcoal and the different hardnesses of black charcoal are my fav for portraits & still life. I love soft charcoal and a charcoal pencil or a very plank one, is great for details. And many many erasers as well as fixative spray that had flexibility. So, you can keep some of your pic w/o smudging it, & work on top of that. I’m sure you know & have worked with it. I love art stores too . Like candy shops 🙂 Have a great weekend.
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Thank you! This is really only loosely a self portrait. Maybe me in my younger days. I just started drawing a woman’s face and gave her my hair and the little lines around my mouth. I love tiny erasers! I have to thank you again for suggesting them! They are a life saver!
I haven’t played too much with charcoal. I have three charcoal pencils and two charcoal sticks and I really haven’t developed much skill with them. I make a huge mess. But they do have a real atmospheric edge to them. I’ve done one or two dark landscape drawings with them that I think turned out pretty well. I’ll have to keep working on it! Thanks again!
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You’re welcome. It’s whatever you like. Perhaps you prefer precision, then different mediums work better. Love sei * your drawings 🙂 I love those tiny erasers too. Too much. If I’m repeating myself lol. Have a great weekend Meg!
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Thanks, Mandi! You too!
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