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# Pencil Sketch
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/pencil-sketch/
- Published: 2022-08-24T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-24T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Could I but draw, I'd sketch you day and night. I'd capture your sweet cheek line as a peach, the soaring eyebrows as a bird in flight, the lips a gentle wave upon the beach.
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Could I but draw, I'd sketch you day and night.  
I'd capture your sweet cheek line as a peach,  
the soaring eyebrows as a bird in flight,  
the lips a gentle wave upon the beach.

I'd draw your eyes as rainbows through the dark,  
your hair as raven feathers, deepest black.  
The smile as lightning, blinding with a spark.  
A graceful swan will model for your back.

I'd draw no landscapes and no nature morte,  
no flower vases and no setting sun;  
no vain cartoons one draws for fun or sport.  
I have no need of subjects: I have one.

I cannot draw, but you're on every page.  
Still beautiful. Still mine. Still young. I age.