Contentment
I would like to paint you, but
I am not such a fool to think I could capture you
in oil and pigment.
You are too alive for that,
too full of mercurial movement and flux,
to be imprisoned by brush and canvas.
And so I am content
to watch your landscape change like seasons
in the moments we are together.
About this poem
In his novel “Portrait of a Lady”, Henry James describes the central character’s beauty as something that could not be captured because it was her liveliness that held the beauty, not a mere collection of lines and features.
I get it,
Tom
Great post š
I love it!