Not only mouth but head I say spew out
the good, the bad, the shaped, the shapeless, all
the changing spots on palette, self to shout,
or unused self to hide, shown great or small.

The heart is keeper of the truth as known.
The kindly heart is seeking more from life
and when a joyful masterpiece has grown,
unkindly cuts it free with freedom's knife.

Those things within that will all else ignore,
those passions smarting with creative urge
will find their ways, escaping from the core,
of hope as possibilities emerge.

Too many cries and silence are the same
for one appears too fierce and one too tame.

- Robert Stone, 26 September 2010