These are big pictures to aid your reflections on little poems.
FREE AT LAST
Once we’re friendless, grammarless, and blind,
we’re free to do whatever’s on our mind.
The painting below—“Mellow Pad” by Stuart Davis (the Brooklyn Museum)—illustrates the interacting influences that shape our decisions. .
NOT NECESSARILY WHAT SHOULD
What I have done and what’s been done to me
will shape what I believe is bad or good.
So while I’m free to do what pleases me,
it isn’t necessarily what should.
NOTE: Aids to Reflection is on sale at Amazon in both Kindle (2.99) and Print (3.99) formats. Only a few of the illustrations in this blog version are included in the Kindle and Print formats.
Paintings and Poems 