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Tuesday 14 July 2015

SHARAKU, a sonnet by James L.S. Carter



                                                                          SHARAKU

                                                                    by  James L.S.Carter




                                                            






                             To capture actors' grimaces with lines

                             And trace the textures of their lineaments

                             Expose the part that the man underlines

                             And with a colour betray a sixth sense.

                             To shade in character and capture thought

                             All with an individual voice and style

                             To paint a mood, in action horror caught,

                             Or all the geisha's pleasures to beguile.

                             This have I found in you and more besides

                             With eyebrows floating in a moon of face,

                             The villain or the hero, charm, disgrace,

                              The scorn that pities or care that derides,

                             Great artist, let a sister art supply

                              The admiring praise of the admiring eye.




                                  Copyright: James L.S.Carter July 2015

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