God paints the world with colored strokes,
with emerald and vermilion;
with asteroid bursts and nebulae;
with textured tapestries of plants,
with vine-twined veins of chlorophyll;
the thump and throb of pumping life.
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God paints the world with colored strokes
with onyx stones and coal dust;
with dusky shade from cypress trees;
with layered grey and sepia;
with shadowed faces, glass-drop tears,
the smear and sting of certain loss.
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God paints the world with colored strokes,
but sometimes paints in sketches—
with ha…half formed lines and
color trails of incomplete…
Severed masterworks.
sad groaning of delayed suspense
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God paints the world with colored strokes,
with orpiment and azure;
with teeming cells and bursting suns;
with streaks of silver, specks of white;
with paint-swirled spray of ocean foam:
the pulse and throb of earnest praise.
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