In vertigo of night, in their riddled trance
Boldness of petals melt on washed-out shades,
As faces etch a quiet gloom in varied hues
Capturing splashed oil, neutral and bright
While I gaze longingly at a portrait…
Man and wife , as if holding a child almost
Unseen …hidden through a float of blue-white.
Through dimming pain, a view lights up for a time
Where orange of moonlight quietly slips
Amid this rosette outburst and aching gray,
With blossoms strewn along pale candlelight…
How languid colors begin to mold my thoughts
Drowning in a pang of loneliness… I ask
In silence..are the couple ,the babe dying?...dead?
And the fusion of tender, lonely motif allows me
To weep inside, captive in a gasping moan... the kind
Which shapes a tone between life and elegy.
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Frank Herrera's Contest: YOUR PERSONAL BEST of 2016
Written 5/09/2016 Re-submitted 10/18/2016
POTD Awardee
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Inspiration from the painting, Les Amoureux en Gris
Artist: Expressionist, Marc Chagall ( illustration included)
Categories:
awardee, art, color, introspection, loneliness,
Form: Lyric
TROPHY
Truly puts high on you
It makes you on top physically and morally
But the recipient/awardee
Must not be the emphasis
As creativeness losses its boldness instead materially
At the end concentration eats up the story
Achievement and success is a history
Keep up the high morale and spirit anyway.
Leaping, aiming to the gold a quantum to glory
Indeed to an award, a TROPHY!
Categories:
awardee, uplifting
Form: Free verse