Poem: A Lifetime of Art

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Colored pencils
watercolors
brushes and inks
oil pastels
chalk
double-sided markers
collages
scrapbooks
little cartoons
plein air
urban sketches
portraits
landscapes

a treasure of a lifetime
pictures are windows
to a past
that is rapidly fading
into monochrome

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