Outside the Lines
Day 240
Lines by Martha Collins
Draw a line. Write a line. There.
Stay in line, hold the line, a glance
between the lines is fine but don’t
turn corners, cross, cut in, go over
or out, between two points of no
return’s a line of flight, between
two points of view’s a line of vision.
But a line of thought is rarely
straight, an open line’s no party
line, however fine your point.
A line of fire communicates, but drop
your weapons and drop your line,
consider the shortest distance from x
to y, let x be me, let y be you.
Stay in line, hold the line, a glance
between the lines is fine but don’t
turn corners, cross, cut in, go over
or out, between two points of no
return’s a line of flight, between
two points of view’s a line of vision.
But a line of thought is rarely
straight, an open line’s no party
line, however fine your point.
A line of fire communicates, but drop
your weapons and drop your line,
consider the shortest distance from x
to y, let x be me, let y be you.
I don’t always like to color inside of the lines, however most of my time is spent safe within the boundaries, nice and comfy. I like how it looks inside the lines and I like how it looks outside the lines, but I don’t have to travel outside that often, at least not far. When I go outside those lines, invariably someone is going to get upset because I am disrupting his or her lines. I have been coloring outside of my lines quite a lot recently, going against the flow, and the coloring book is looking a little messy, but wow! The colors are amazing! It is too bad not everyone understands my art…
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I don’t even try to understand your art … I just like it. 🙂
Heck! I don’t even understand what I am doing half the time!
I’m still not good at coloring inside the lines, literally or figuratively. I’ve sort of given up hope I’ll ever learn 🙂
As I told you, I believe all true artists are often misunderstood in their work. Isn’t it said that a written piece is interpreted differently by everyone & the interpretation says more about the reader than about the writer? … or something like that… I imagine this applies to all art forms.
I hope you never color inside the lines, Karen – the way you go against the flow is an intrinsic part of everything you are. I love you, miss! ♥
I like this! Very cool abstract 🙂
Ahhhhh! Thank you, Miss Eden for your always sweet words! ♥
I’m getting to the point in life where I suspect that if everyone *did* understand me that would be a very scary thing! For them and me both. But I *am* a bit tenuous about jumping the tracks, so I tend to try to do most of my scribbling out of view of others and then share it when *I* feel safe enough with it.
Another cool piece of glass. It looks so candy-like!!
It does look like rock candy, doesn’t it? I think I am getting a craving for some of that good old fashioned stuff!
Most people have no idea what is going on in my head, and that is probably a very good thing. I don’t really want to know what is swirling around in theirs either, I don’t think! xxoo
Love this photo!
I saw it and immediately fell in love with the colors, and then I read the text and everything had more sense!
Great post!
And to think, I was not going to use this photo and was going to opt for “more” snow! I just needed that color!
That’s really great… kinda gritty yet very pretty.
I hadn’t thought of it being gritty so I went back up and took another look at it. And I think you are right! It amazes me the things I miss until someone else sees it.