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[aid] => mick
[title] => does pride make you blind?
[time] => 2004-10-20 11:28:58
[hometext] => just a self-doubt rambling about a conversation overheard... (this might be a
[bodytext] => My dad's an artist, was the proud exclaim From a smiling countenance that did proclaim A pride at once haughty and yet quietly sincere But do I truly deserve this praise so dear With bits of pigment and chalks of varied hue A series of scribbles from pencils and pens, too That which is not seen takes form in vague Driven from within as by some strange plague Always, they are still never quite right The many flaws and lackings rip at weary sight So where is this artist known to the lauding one When these crayon creations are not ever really done Please enlighten this one if you will All the uncertainty's causing the hand to still Do these marks stir & shine in an inner light Because my hagard vision has become a blight Tell me, dear child, what is it that YOU see When the thousands of corrections aren't enough for me Is there some aura draped as an insightful curtain That allows you to aver the artist for certain [comments] => 2 [counter] => 173 [topic] => 21 [informant] => reprobate [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 0 [associated] => [topicname] => Lifepoems )
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