{"id":3900,"date":"2025-07-21T08:51:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=3900"},"modified":"2025-07-21T08:51:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:51:43","slug":"take-back-your-brushes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2025\/07\/21\/take-back-your-brushes\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Back Your Brushes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

Take Back Your Brushes<\/strong><\/p>\n

Before You Arrived
\nYou Chose
\nThe Chrysalis<\/p>\n

Into Which
\nYou Wished
\nto Squeeze<\/p>\n

The Light That
\nIs You,<\/p>\n

With a Plan
\nto Emerge and
\nSpread Your Wings<\/p>\n

Beneath an
\nArtist\u2019s Smock,
\nPockets Stuffed with
\nPaints and Brushes,<\/p>\n

Ready to Fill
\na Gallery,
\nBearing Your Name,
\nwith Your
\nFlights of Fancy.<\/p>\n

But It May Be That<\/p>\n

Your Brushes
\nWere Seized by
\nPrison Guard Parents or
\nIndoctrinating Instructors or
\nPreachers with Holy Handcuffs
\non Their Bible Belts,<\/p>\n

Who Persuaded You
\nto Surrender
\nYour Easel and Palette,<\/p>\n

Put a Padlock on
\nThe Gallery of
\nYour Daydreams.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Not
\nToo Late.<\/p>\n

The Key Is Still
\nIn Your Pocket.<\/p>\n

(Photo by Ekaterina Novitska; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Take Back Your Brushes Before You Arrived You Chose The Chrysalis Into Which You Wished to Squeeze The Light That Is You, With a Plan to Emerge and Spread Your Wings Beneath an Artist\u2019s Smock, Pockets Stuffed with Paints and Brushes, Ready to Fill a Gallery, Bearing Your Name, with Your Flights of Fancy. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3903,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions\/3903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}