Sunday Muse - A Painter

"Roots" 1943 by Frida Kahlo (link) 

The Hurting Painter 

There you lay amongst a sea of fallen leaves 

Hurt, emerging from tap root of aging elm 

Bringing with you tender green--new hope conceived 

The dirt the old crumbling leaves be overwhelmed 

Get up arise cut your cord and paint anew 

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 - Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter, the first woman from her country to be famous for her art.  From childhood, without formal education, painted profusely.   Although at age eighteen she was badly hurt and was left handicapped for the rest of her life she still painted and gained national and world recognition.  

 - The "self portrait" above fairly recently sold for five million dollars plus.  Read more here and about this picture at this link. 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2021, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Carrie Van Horn for the Photo prompt at The Sunday Muse #171, http://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-sunday-muse-171.html?m=1 

 - I'm also at 55 syllables without the title

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