Tools of an Artist

A poem for POM prompt #3: Inanimate Object

Jessica Archuleta
Nov 6 · 1 min read
Photo by Alina Grubnyak on Unsplash

“In both figure and landscape … I want to get to the point where people say of my work: that man feels deeply, that man feels keenly.”
(Letter to Theo van Gogh, 21 July 1882)

Oil paints in
Prussian blue,
Ultramarine,
Emerald green,
Squeezed from tubes
Made to dance, made to sing

Jessica Archuleta

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Gratefully writing about food, culture, relationships, education, poetry +more| Happy wife & mama to 10|Hispanic woman| Deeply spiritual & religious💗POM Poet💗

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A collection of writings including stories on living life unapologetically, to the fullest, with intention & emphatically by Jessica Archuleta.

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