To Colour Outside The Line

Dedicated to Jack Smith (picture on the left) of Facebook, and his grandaughter Sophia.

Jacks post that inpired the poem:

Read and comment on the poem on his Facebook profile

Picasso said that he could draw
Like an adult from when young of age
A pencil in hand, as if a master
He could draw upon the page
But though art was in his heart...  Read more
It did not cause him joy
Until he found as a man
How to draw like a boy.

And today when we see Picasso
With his pictures colourful and wild
We look not at the youthful drawings like those of the masters
But those which are drawn like a child
And us in our great knowledge
We call it abstract or modern art
It is not so: its fasle to call it such
Its just paintings from the heart

A man, Jack Smith on Facebook
Theres some lines you never thought youd see in a poem
Was teaching drawing to a grandchild
I saw on the site when I clicked "Home"
And in her childish sketching
She showed him is WAS fine
And gave her grandfather the love of art
By colouring OUTSIDE the line!!!

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