<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366896" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Brush With Genius</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before the brush was in his hand, <br>The artist said a prayer! <br>For all his friends across the land<br>With whom he planned to share...<br>Lions, tigers and bears, oh, my! <br>The artist sketched them all, <br>So expertly, for by and by, <br>Each one would grace his wall...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Each canvas like a photograph, <br>A treasure to behold, <br>As if that wasn't quite enough, <br>Each one was framed in gold...<br>Each masterpiece was well received<br>And prints were sold worldwide, <br>As tributes to what he'd achieved, <br>Of which he should take pride...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And yet here was a humble man, <br>Self-taught and yet what skill, <br>Yet when we do the best we can, <br>There's bound to be a thrill...<br>Release your hidden genius<br>And God will bless you, too! <br>Like Stephen Gayford can bless us<br>With paintings old and new...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Denis Martindale, copyright, December 2011.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The poem is based on the magnificent paintings by <br>artist Stephen Gayford of gayfordgallery-dot-com</div><div style="margin:10px 0">More Stephen Gayford poems here: <br>denis-martindale-dot-blogspot-dot-com</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Denis+Martindale">Denis Martindale</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366896" data-title="A Brush With Genius de Denis Martindale" data-description="Before the brush was in his hand, The artist said a prayer! For all his friends across the land With whom he planned to share... Lions, tigers and bears, oh, my! The artist sketched them all, So expertly, for by and by, Each one would grace h..."></div> </div> </div>

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