PAINTINGS
      

Paintings are the colours of music
Every stroke a note of harmony
Impressions of mysterious muses
Inscriptions of eternity.

Music without sound
Rapture of a grand symphony
Voice of sublime quietness
Quintessence of eternal beauty.

Modeste Mussorgsky breathed music
Into pictures at an exhibition
The twain embraced and waltzed-
Art’s most poignant and wondrous fusion.

What would earthly life be
Without the passionate kiss of beauty?
When words fail and the heart is weary
Beauty consoles in her infinite serenity.