Best Gouache Poems

Pull out the easel
   set the canvas 
    positioned long and slender clean slate.
Sketch the figures huddled and dark-bound hostage
   to charcoal-cooled coals 
    etching in shadow images;
Faceless entities 
   slipping in and...

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When the mirror of 
               life is a gossamer film,       
 veiling v i n t a g e polaroids that 
   ...

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Introspection 

suspends in dark blue amnion
as rainwater blooms a reflection pool
an oasis of energy for contemplative embryo;
in stillness I grow.. my pulse a flowing stream of raindrops 
my body  the rhythm maker   
my mind  the artiste
in a cocoon  a rhythmic...

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One night this darkness will end life
with clouds in damp fog without stars
and a moon dressed in tatters screaming
at feet scratched on pebbles in low-tide
rough water to sway one and stumble

Maelstroms twist, turn and swallow fish
in an icy-cold winterland with rickety wrecks
Stranded with thundering crashes...

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MATTISE CUT-OUT an Ekphrasis
Colour combinations,yellows &blacks
of every hue,gouache paper,paint,
pins&glue.Cut-out patterns,pasted
pastiche,outlines enssemblage traced,
time after time.Out of the blue nudes
appear,modelled maquettes a last period
coda of the master’s career.
Inspired by Matisse Cut-out book Jazz

Listen to me recite this ekphrasis on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro...

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One night this darkness – A Collaboration with Darren White  


One night this darkness will end life
with clouds in damp fog without stars
and a moon dressed in tatters screaming
at feet scratched on pebbles in low-tide
rough water to sway one and stumble
 
Maelstroms twist, turn...

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"The discrepancies are many, the dalliances are few,
both pitched against one dynamic, lifelong achievement"

Poking through the woods of the Mill Grove Audubon Estate,
suddenly came upon an ivy-covered studio shed
tucked away amongst foliage near Perkiomen Creek,
apparently some artist's hidden haven, lost in time.

Passing through this rickety...

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And the whole world suddenly became,
Only with halftones...
Black and white and terrible,
And disappeared all colors,
In vain...
I tried gouache to try something to draw.

Painted walls
Red with streaks of gray paint
In drops of blood from the heart was the color
This color was paved with Hell...

And pieces of...

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I saw a monk
make water today
and almost cry;
water that was almost
tea.

Tonight we couldn’t
make heads nor tails
of the blues or the pinks;
the boxes or the lenses.
Tonight we couldn’t
make heads nor tails
of the words called
poetries.

Tonight, the gravity assist
came to the heavy-papered
water coloured gouache, magnet held.

Tonight, the daal
was...

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You are burnt in my being.

These small lines around your mouth,
full lips brushed in wild gouache strokes
Eyes of Prussian blue, aquamarine gems 
to quench fire, to evoke thirst....

In fidgety sticky nights you are draped
around me, wrinkled in rosy lines drawn
over my chest, engraved in my...

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Canvas of eternal adoration;
Man's best use of gouache -

What do you know, Mona?
That lurks beneath your smirk?
What do you conceal, Lisa?
Shrouded in the folds of enigma?

Your lips spurn the lust
Of jutting phalluses
Your eyes drill the soul
Of many a dubious folk
'Cause you know, you know -
What...

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God's golden green gouache
Shines seamless summer sunshine
Lovely living life...

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Painting a warm wash
Over a base layer of gouache
Masterpiece of squash

By Robb A. Kopp...

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John Frederick of the Lewis dynasty
profligacy his legacy
obsessive detail&useof gouache
so making viewers teeth knash...

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So sadly, I must kill you my pretties -
then, I can love each of ye forever.
True tears moisten simple strokes of my brush,
gay gouache can caress every feather.
As you ascend, your wings will be fulfilled
when they lift to embrace heavenly winds.
We will long look skyward...

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