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    Coloring outside the lines

    “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
    Coco Chanel


    Childrens's crayons, a clustered
    pack,
    little desks in tidy rows,
    conforming to the lines.
    Lines drawn for them
    by others - don't they know?

    'He followed orders to a Tee, '
    is no Epitaph for me.
    The jacket of convention-
    avoiding this fate is quite
    the art.
    So:
    You of dewy bloom! Of aesthetics! Of
    Imagination!

    Silence the mourners,
    muffle the bagpipes,
    push back the coffin out for sail,
    inhale back that sigh!
    Blast through the lines
    like Pollock into a
    hard driving rain, for

    what they think of you -
    does not come from thought...

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    I really loved this poem, Tony.
    Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty
    ~Albert Einstein

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