Jan Price

Jan’s poetry and artwork continues to be published in Australia, the United States, London, through universities, in journals, and online. She loves poetry competitions, open readings, and sells her paintings at art shows. Jan is sometimes asked to provide art forlLiterary covers. She leaves ‘Free Poems’ in all types of shops and cafes for people to read or own. She lives in Victoria, Australia.

“If you are a rose, I will smell you and run
my fingertips over your silken skin. If you
are yellow I will use you sparingly because
I really love frost blue and sad emotions.
If you are human, I will stand back and wait
until you let me capture you, even though
you will look back at me from the canvas
knowing you have not given your essence.
I will run away into my pine forest and
tell the blue wren and rushing water
in the creek how selfish you are.
They will tweet and babble,
Don’t go back! Don’t go back! But I do!
And you know I will don’t you!
Over and over I will paint you.”