On Painting A Self-portrait...

 PAD Challenge day 7: Write a self-portrait poem

How does one paint a portrait

Of a Person deep within

Beyond her common flesh-blood form

Embodiment of skin

A curious sort of creature

Lured by wanderlust of ink

Drawn to a midnight madrigal

Or morning’s begging brink

Long I have stared; who is she?

That strange, familiar face

Tormented by a melody

In Time’s tick-tock embrace

And what are her true colors?

My brush pauses, for she

Is every shade of blue-gray-green

Gold-pink-red poetry

Who is this blessed word-beggar?

And where did she come from?

Or how does she truly describe

This one her kids call ‘mom’?

Ah, she is child-girl-woman

And she is mother-wife

Lover, loner, thankful thinker

To God for this; her life

© Janet Martin