The Boy in the Red Vest by Paul Cezanne
I have written this a thousand times
Tried cursive calligraphy
Complicated rhymes
Called you cruel and irrational
Then beauteous, sublime
I’ve written this
A thousand times
I have given you a thousand names
I’ve accepted all the infamy
Absorbing all the blame
I’ve bathed in ice-cold water
And writhed within these flames
I have given you
A thousand names
I have offered you a thousand words
Some of them so heartfelt
Some that are absurd
You are to me some sickness
No poetry has cured
I have offered you
A thousand words
I prayed you’d be a thousand blessed
Worn my heart so open
On my blood-red vest
But it seems I’m destined
Just to fail this test
So I pray you’ll be
A thousand blessed
(c) Helen Valentina 2013, All Rights Reserved
For howanxious’ Prompt 8 – based on the Cezanne painting above – see the prompt and howanxious’ great writing at http://howanxious.wordpress.com
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helenvalentina 
So heart-felt and emotional… Beautifully crafted.
I loved the last stanza. It is endearing.
Thanks a lot for participating in the prompt.
Thank you! I enjoyed participating, it was a great prompt!! 🙂
Really excellent piece. Good job with the prompt.>KB
Thank you!! 🙂 🙂
“I have written this a thousand times
Tried cursive calligraphy
Complicated rhymes
Called you cruel and irrational
Then beauteous, sublime
I’ve written this
A thousand times”
Brings me back to punishment by teacher in the old school days lol but those were pretty fine times.
LOL, thank you – fascinating where poetry can take us in our memory!! 🙂
Very beautifully composed and extremely emotional piece. xx
Thank you so much!! 🙂 🙂
Cezanne was all about “composition” with very little significance about what is on the canvas. Fine art does not need a “reason;” it just IS.
I think that’s very true – but when you look at a painting like this it does engender some for of story in the viewer – for me it was a lovelorn lad… 🙂
Of course, Helen, that’s what we writers do with what we see. ;-))
You do incredible work with these prompts, Sis! I really enjoyed this. Very much!! xxxx
Thanks so much dear Sis!!! 🙂 xxxx