Coffee Pot Coffee Pot rolls down the rue
spoiled sweet-sugared Momma'd and spooned
cane to the ready, trick at the heel
Soul of Montmartre reels heading pour vous
wiry cancan
bistros reviewed
Pigalle stays ready in offer of hue
Coat Hangar Coat Hangar bends at the knee
Henri bleu Henri
impressions imbue
wiry cancan
bistro renewed
Henri is ready to offer his view
sips brush an elbow
parfume takes flight
night's bright beginning
yellow delights
Author notes
Lithograph/ Moulin Rouge: La Goulue in four colors (1891)
Henri Toulouse-Lautrec's nicknames were Coffee Pot, Coat Hangar and 'The Soul of Montemartre.' Pigalle (pronounced Piga): lower red light district of Mountmartre (Mount martyr) on the Right Bank in Paris.
An alcoholic, Henri filled his cane with green absinthe which is poured over sugar (spoon.) Short in stature from inherited complications and raised by an aristocratic/doting mother, much influenced his sexuality, relationships and art.
Hue: The attributes of colors that permit them to be classed as green, red, blue, yellow or any intermediate between any contiguous pair of these colors.
Blue: May signify: aristocracy, depressive feelings, blue laws etc.
Decant: To pour (a liquid) from one container into another.
Decant: To pour off without disturbing the sediment.Please tell me what you think
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hmmm, this is fun and the notes are really interesting! I was going through a little absinthe phase last year but the one contest I ran on it got only one response and the poem I wrote about it got deleted from the contest it was in because it rhymed, I think.
Love this detail about the cane! My mom even sent away for an absinthe spoon for me. Now THERE's an emoticon we could use!
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How did I overlook this one?
Very good, again of course.
I don't know why you are shy about your talent.
Have you noticed I like to leave comments?
Take a lesson from that kley
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ahhhh...yes...indeed..sigh...
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Exquisite picture you have painted.
Your poems are always so full of double entendre while also being so vividly visible. You take the reader there
to follow behind him, to sit beside him, to see inside
his mind and life for a little while. Excellent just doesn't quite cover it all..it is so much more.
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I keep thinking
ladybug ladybug
fly away home
the rhythms are well framed adding a needed struture to the picture -
It's Toulouse...can you tighten it up a peck?
Couldn't resist!
Well this is rather good. I wouldn't a notion of what it was about without the author notes. But I like the way it reads. Nice flow, nice rhyme go. And I liked the inclusion of un petit peu of French into the mix.
And three lll's in yelllow!
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Very well written. Thanks for the information on Lautrec's nicknames. I wasn't aware that he had any.
Nice touch for the poem. Good to see you writing again.
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