<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=440122" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Nothing Natural About It At All</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">That portrait painted, <br>Hangs much too low, <br>The light from it appears to be shaded.<br>Where did the gleeming smiles, <br>And the brightness go? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those sloping lush hills, <br>Seemed so green just yesterday.<br>Even when the clouds and rain came near...<br>None of it on this portrait showed.<br>The rays of the Sun, <br>Were then so clear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wasn't the Sunrise on the horizon, <br>Full of vivid promises free of duels? <br>And who came to smear a tinge of darkness upon it? <br>That had to have been just after noon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The peaks of mountains, <br>Snowcapped and strong? <br>There is something about it, <br>That will not be prolonged.<br>The melting of snow, <br>Seems to have gone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What 'is' this? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Something about it, <br>Has to be stopped.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I can see in its future, <br>This portrait is going to be forgotten.<br>Snatched off the wall.<br>And its presence remembered...<br>From memories dropped.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That can not be the same portrait! <br>Seen now to hang so pitifully.<br>Tilted, in a lopsidedness.<br>That brings not a hint of joy to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is this someone's idea, <br>Of a joke to provoke? <br>My atmosphere...<br>Is not a place to invite tears? <br>The sweeping of the strokes...<br>Has abandoned its meaning.<br>To another scene in a secret elope.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That portrait painted, <br>Hangs much too low, <br>The light from it appears to be shaded.<br>Where did the smiles, <br>And the brightness go? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">HELLO! <br>...hello...hello...hello...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even the echos once heard from the valleys, <br>Aren't responding with a clarity.<br>Rich and reflective.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is not an original.<br>This one is absolutely faked.<br>Who is trying to exhibit this image? <br>To pass it as something great? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Take it away from this place.<br>Get rid of it.<br>And tear down that wall.<br>It makes me sick.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It has become too common.<br>It blocks out all that's right.<br>There's nothing natural about it at all.<br>It conflicts with the ambiance.<br>And this ambiance...<br>Does not invite blight! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Get rid of it now! <br>More light is what I wish.<br>Take that piece of trash and burn it.<br>After its been dumped, <br>To cover the fumes...<br>In a dirt covered ditch!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</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=440122" data-title="Nothing Natural About It At All de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="That portrait painted, Hangs much too low, The light from it appears to be shaded. Where did the gleeming smiles, And the brightness go? Those sloping lush hills, Seemed so green just yesterday. Even when the clouds and rain came near... Non..."></div> </div> </div>

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