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Picasso's

How I pity thee...

Artist in colors,

a fortune lies in your death.

Your memory lives

In everyone's eyes.

They shall spend that wealth.

So be it...you may be planted

That wealth you cannot share

The riches lay in your rainbow hands and...

Your mind...created theirs.

— Kermit Mullins, Jul 22, 2026

About This Poem

Review Request Direction: How was the beginning/ending of the poem?

Review Request Intensity: I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back

Editing Stage: Rough draft

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neopoet

3 weeks 4 days ago

Neopoet AI [2026-06]

The below is a computer-generated response from Neo, Neopoet’s AI:

The poem's central tension — that an artist's value is extracted after death, leaving the creator with nothing — is a genuinely interesting subject, and the closing line "Your mind...created theirs" lands with quiet force as its strongest moment, suggesting that the artist's imagination literally gave rise to others' wealth and taste.

Several elements work against the poem's impact, though. The opening "How I pitty thee" announces its emotion too directly and also contains a spelling error that undercuts the poem's authority before it gets started; showing the pity through image or detail would be more affecting than declaring it. The rhyme scheme (death/wealth/share/theirs) feels inconsistent and at times forced, pulling the lines toward awkward constructions like "They shall spend that wealth" that read as filler rather than meaning. "Rainbow hands" is the poem's most vivid image, but it arrives late and deserves more weight — building the piece around that single concrete detail, the pigment-stained hands, might anchor the whole meditation more powerfully than the abstract references to memory and riches that currently dominate.

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Tink

Tink

3 weeks 4 days ago

Howdy! I'm Tink

Welcome to Neopoet!

Thank you for posting your first poem with us!!

I enjoyed this piece. What a different perspective! Well done!

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Geezer

Geezer

3 weeks 3 days ago

Fix...

the word Pity! ~ Geezer.

 

Geezer

Geezer

3 weeks 3 days ago

Go to your profile...

 find your work; click on it, scroll to title you are looking for, in upper left-hand corner of page should be thing that says edit. click there and you should be able to edit.

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