An Artist’s Notes--By Gerald Heyder--United States

An Artist’s Notes

A broken heart is a poet’s pen

with crimson shade of ink,

billowed wounded thoughts that flow

gives a reader pause to think.

Teardrops on canvas

is an artist’s palette paint

with every stroke as a story line

from sinner to halo’d saint.

Mournful notes on paper

writes the composer’s bleeding soul;

symphonic strains to a tended ear

can be a somber bell that tolls.

Expression comes in many ways.

Oh form of painful spurt,

like a nerve that is wonderful

until it starts to hurt.

Some broken branches on the tree

are stories never told

of heartache that’s a shadow cast

in the life we sculpt and mold.

Gerald Heyder is a published poet from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.