Text Sketch

 To create a picture two or three faint lines are drawn

To establish the perspective of what's  yet unseen

To let eyes to travel easily and harmoniously  over it.

Like smoke rising over a  newborn mist of  valley

A wisp of curving cloud catches at  wing tip of a circling hawk

A bubbling stream racing down to awake a sleeping village

On the edge of water and golden gorse a tall full antlered buck

Watching his mate of the moment steal a last bite

Before they both flee the coming bright of day

The wind rises to erase the picture even as  it forms

Whipping the smoke to haze

Taking the wisp of cloud and blowing dust 

into the eyes of the prey the hawk is watching

driving his breakfast back into the ground.

Carrying unpleasant scents to the spring toed deer

As white tails bounce into secret woods

A picture in time  presented by a blinded artist with a lute

Or an all seeing explosive man

Who cannot tell you how his mind can rhyme 

Or reason from one moment to the next 

Another sketch in text 

Reviews

[Ken Simm.]

You once said to me that you hadn't drawn in a long time. Not true. You know how much I will admire this.

[Woody]

wonderful sketch, Donald. very beautiful. you have a fantastic sense of observation. your depiction of the scene is a stunning tableau.

[Linda Marie Van Tassell]

Words can wing a bird across the sky of the mind and curl an ocean wave into the corner of the heart. They can breathe to life all the textures that a blind eye has never seen and bleed color on the cloudiest of days. This is a lush canvas for all to see.

[brianborgan]

Don't go near a writer called HansJizzy. He's making trouble, especially for women writers.

You can delete this after, but it's a genuine attempt to get this guy away from the site.

[boblakin]

Perfectly drawn I say. The word choice is classic and the poem is like a painting that reveals something different each time it is looked at.

I don't review much, find it harder than scribbling my own stuff, but this tempted me to have a bash.

boblakin

[Donald Meikle]

goodonye mate you did it well and read it right

[J.P. Bristow]

This is very layered- I love the multiple tales within the work here and the use of sketch as your basis for the various imagery...

sketch the drawing
sketch the incident
sketch the person
sketch the comedy
sketch in writing....

you are a pretty witty nell....