Poems inspired by "What I See" in Artworks.
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For kissing, just like painting, is a cultivated art
requiring mouth to mouth resuscitation, lips apart.25 lines, 19 comments, on Jul 14 5:15 AM 2005. In Humor
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I don’t know what the fuss made of her portrait is about
for I seriously think it calls his judgement into doubt. -
Sonnet in Terza Rima style in iambic heptameter with
each Triplet and the couplet in monorhyme. -
Now here’s a real masterpiece that no one can deny.
When you’re strolling through the Louvre, this one hits you in the eye -
Another Sonnetto coppiato in iambic heptameter
with rhyming couplets. -
This unknown painter didn’t even sign his name
and, while it’s quite a good portrayal of a back.... -
I'd best list my amended Mona portrait as "adult"
but, all things considered, I’m quite satisfied with the result! -
Young David was a sturdy lad; that is not hard to see
for he’s not got a stitch to hide his masculinity. -
A leading portrait painter in his time, he best is known
for the beauty, grace and texture of his nudes. -
Such innocence and beauty uncorrupted,
‘twere best to leave in peace, uninterrupted. -
Methinks a woeful woman weeping, nude,
were better left alone in solitude. -
Who they were, until this day I cannot say
for eventually, I turned and walked away. -
For while, quite dumbfounded, to approach her I feared,
the next wave engulfed her and she disappeared! -
One summer day I made my way along
beside the lake where I’d forsake the throng -
O’ haughty queen whose eyes have seen with transport of delight
the deaths obscene of men who’ve been your lovers overnight. -
How long have you been standing there like that?
Did your lover walk away and leave you flat? -
Sweet maid of Lesbos, left exposed but suckled by a ewe,
found as a babe by shepherd Dryas who took care of you. -
Victorians considered rude Lefebvre’s women in the nude
and would not place the works on show of Cabanel or Bouguereau. -
Though oft’ obscure and never sure if I am foe or friend
yet, I endure and will ensure I triumph in the end. -
Today, as Angelica says, we’re better to rely
on instinct, wit and simple common-sense to get us by. -
Just as I thought I’d finished with the best of Bouguereau,
I chanced upon this painting which has filled me with intrigue. -
William Bouguereau who painted women nude by habit
of all the great French portrait painters definitely had it. -
You’ll nearly always find an easy spot to park your cart at
that very entertaining place - your neighbourhood slave-market. -
Of ancient Cypriot sculptors, one above all else excelled.
The statues which Pygmalion carved, from ivory or stone,
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