Best Famous Untalented Poems
Here is a collection of the all-time best famous Untalented poems. This is a select list of the best famous Untalented poetry. Reading, writing, and enjoying famous Untalented poetry (as well as classical and contemporary poems) is a great past time. These top poems are the best examples of untalented poems.
Search and read the best famous Untalented poems, articles about Untalented poems, poetry blogs, or anything else Untalented poem related using the PoetrySoup search engine at the top of the page.
See Also:
Written by
Barry Tebb |
(Goya, an old man in exile, looks at his self-portrait)
A bull’s neck, still much needed,
Deserving exile or the guillotine,
‘Because you are an artist we forgave you’,
Thus his royal highness gave thanks,
My fingers itching for brush and canvas,
Floury cheeks and rouge, legs a donkey would be ashamed of,
A wife who’s been to bed with everything in Madrid.
First I was ‘untalented’, then ‘mad and deaf’
Still I painted, my pain drew me on,
My kingdom had majas nude or veiled
Always with dark eyes like her
Whom I loved and they poisoned,
Duchess of Alba, dressed in silver grey,
A white pekinese at her feet with the world:
On the sand my name with hers
And ‘always’.
Old men easily grow afraid;
Spain and her blood are distant.
Alba dead I paint my ‘Milkmaid of Bordeaux’
In lingering silver-grey.
|