Painting eternity, icons – v3

Painting eternity, icons, our national pastime,
capturing our heroes, a moment of grace,
Glorious, as they were in those moments;
Longing for perfection, seeking to get it right,
striving to be faithful, to the image, to that age,
When we called them heroes, gods of the diamonds.
 
Seeing the nobility, the gravitas, the moment,
grown men playing a game we all knew, our pastime,
with fealty to our nostalgia, our myths, our legends,
to the images in the emulsion, capturing their faces;
Longing for the power in the lighting, the shades of color,
painting our diamond heroes, so many we have lost.
 
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Edited February 1, 2024
Painting eternity, icons – v3
 
Edited March 25, 2023
Painting eternity, icons – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/03/painting-eternity-icons-v2.html
Adding stanza 2
March 24, 2023
Painting eternity, icons
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/03/painting-eternity-icons.html
March 23, 2023
Painting in shades of light
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/03/painting-in-shades-of-light.html
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