Admire from afar

I receive Brain Pickings in my email box every Sunday morning. Today's column highlighted wonderful line drawings of Every Person in New York: Illustrated. Then... another book of people in San Francisco... line drawings filled in with watercolors. I wish I could draw like that.

So many ways

To view the world;

So many ways

To describe the world.

I try to stand back

Admire from afar

Without being jealous

Of a turn of phrase,

A drawing which captures

That particular gesture.

Never mind.

So many ways

Admire from afar

Add my own sparkle

To the world

By writing every day

By paying attention

To the words

To the pictures others draw

Release what I have done

Into the world

Admire from afar

What others see

Add my words to the mix.