Two years and two days and 10,000 pencils,
No tracing or reprints or cheap, plastic stencils.
The dots turn to lines, the lines turns to figures,
The transfer of symbols from my brain to my fingers.
A mark on the page meant the white was now tainted,
With another damned hope that this time I’ll make it.
My passions run under my detailed bridge,
With the promise they’ll say, “Let’s stick that on the fridge!”
My name is Gregg Savage and, every night when the house is quiet, I write and publish a free children’s story at dailytales.com.au for you to share and enjoy.
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Okay…now I know you are the illustrator for your fairy tale stories! You are, if this is so, a wonderful illustrator! A wonderful poem. I loved it!
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Thanks, K.D! Though me wonderful illustrator, Alisha Towers, might be a bit offended if I started taking credit for her work!
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Gregg, thank Alisha, her illustrations are wonderful and compliment your fairy tales beautifully. I really loved your poem too. K D 🙂
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I will! She loves receiving fan mail 😉 You can leave her a message on her Facebook as well. https://www.facebook.com/AlishaTowersDesigns/
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Gregg, I did! What a wonderful artist she is! Thank you for sharing and I posted one of your fairy tales on Happy Booker’s Book Club! K D 🙂
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Liked this one, Gregg:-) And I think a lot of the people here can appreciate its sentiment. So many writers/creators/artists just want someone else to put a little part of us “on the fridge”.
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Cheers, Ann-William! This one started out as an actual story, but I thought it might work as a poem, so I tried it out and was pretty stoked. Gald you enjoyed it!
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