She is untitled, now.

[Tak-Jak]

01.

She was an artist, she dipped
her brushes into thick oils and
argued with watercolors, finding them
to run away too often from where she
wanted them to stay, she prefered the
paint that let her be more in control
of the world she created.

02.

We met in math and she was
drawing shadows on her papers and
I was doodling comics, I was creating
offbeat stars. She was older, skipped
too many classes, hated math, loved
to dangle cigarettes out of her mouth
even though she was barely 17.

03.

She believed in Persephone, in
dreams as a reality. She believed in
blaming her problems on the
Gods and Goddesses she read
about, she conjured them up in her palms
and tosses them at me. My eyelashes
fluttered; She dared me to cry.

04.

We never spoke of it, our quiet
mouths said enough. My eyes were
distant. One morning I awoke and realized
she was a lie, in the form of a girl. She was

lying. I had wings, I could get away.

05.

“Let me watch you draw,” they would beg her,

and she would be crimson cheeked,
shading in a palm tree, or a beautiful woman's
calf. And I would turn the other way,
and write about my silence, and why. Why no one
ever asked to watch me write

ever asked to watch me at all.  

[KirbyVictorious]

She is brave, yes, and bold; but her world has no poetry if she has to be in control of it. The writer adn the artist are two different beings; one creates worlds, the other lets a world create them.

And if people prefer bright pretty colors to words, then that's there problem.

/opinion on fictional subjects. :XP: I love you Takky. heart  

[in the flicker.]

this is wonderful.

as for my opinion on this, i would say that the reason why people want to see an artist at work is because they view artists as having much more vigor, creating something much more tangible, and from nothing.

it's not because they do not appreciate writing; they just don't understand that it is much the same process. pools of frustration amid moments of lucidity and excitement either way.

i like the turn in stanza 4. it's quick and a little sneaky. as to control, who doesn't want a measure of control? it doesn't make for good paintings or good writing, usually, but i would say that it's the amateurs (like myself, though i am getting away from it) who want just some control over what comes out of their hands. but letting go...that's where the magic is.

ramblings...  

[NovaKing]

I agree this is wonderful, and I think the reason why people wouldn't want to watch him write is because painting does most of the imagining for you - atleast on surface of things. Writing and painting are nearly one and the same though, in my opinion, for they both tell a story in one fasion or another.

At any rate, you are a spectacular writer tak-jak.  

[Tak-Jak]

Words take a measured need of concentration and effort in understanding,
while paintings can be understood by unconscious contemplation.  

[NovaKing]

Tak-Jak

Words take a measured need of concentration and effort in understanding,
while paintings can be understood by unconscious contemplation.

That's a nice way of putting it.  

[Tak-Jak]

-nod-  

[KirbyVictorious]

I like words better....  

[Tak-Jak]

That is because you have dedicated life to nothing more.  

[KirbyVictorious]

...? What, now?  

[d e s d e m o n o]

Reading that made me ridiculously happy. Not that it's a particularly happy piece, but, well...

Uh. Yes. Anyway.  

[Tak-Jak]

Oh nothing little one, just a musing.

And well, thanks Desdemono... I think..?  

[d e s d e m o n o]

I'm pretty sure it was a compliment! Really. If it's not very, er, intelligible know verily that I think 'tis great and wondrous etc.  

[Oukow]

Maybe, even though the writer doesn't get asked to be watched as he/she writes, people will ask for their writtings to be head, and to be read aloud?

The way I can desrcibe this peice is like taking a wonderful sip of ice cool water. Feeling refreshed and pure, yet slightly chilled. Also calming and thoughful. ><

I really like this because it makes me feel like it'd give writer's more, and be on the same level with art for the people who fasinate over paintings and such and find words 'meh'. I wanna get a person to write out a beautiful descriptive paragraph/story of a painting, and have it read to someone. Then show them the painting they were describing, and point out that you can paint with words too...!

You've gotten me into a thinking mood Tak-Jak. confused *ponder*

I love both writting and drawing. Sometimes people will ask to watch me draw, or to look at my doodles. But people have also asked me to let them read my short stories, etc..

In some ways they're the same, and have diffrent problems. In Art the strokes, the lines, the turns are like the words for writting. They're both difficult to to form.

To get the drawing you want onto the peice of paper, you usualy have to picture it or see it with your eyes, and you have to form it onto the paper.

With writting, when you picture/see a person, place, object, you have to describe it, set it into the readers mind with words, but you also have to create it onto paper too, using words though....

Artist and writers both create pictures. In my opinion they're both hard to do. Another thing in common, is that they're ways to express one's self and to go into your own worlds.  

[KirbyVictorious]

crying That was so inspiring. crying