Best Harlequin Poems

Damn me ...
Damn me straight to hell ...
All this time ... all these many miles ...
All the masks and tears and self-flagellation ...
All the changes and promises and lonely nights and dreams ...
All the YEARS that I haven't so much as heard your voice or...

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I put on my finest and set it in my mind, to
win your precious heart. I took great pain and
effort my best to you to impart. Then I came
before you, to laly my treasures at your
feet . I sang to you sweet love songs and
wrote...

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"Hearing the Harlequin"




Mute 

Blues and greens
Picasso spins his brush
on his canvas she appears

playing 
a Mandolin
in his dreams

Felt 

She is seen 
through another's story
L’Oiseau bleu,

Captured Queen

(LadyLabyrinth / 2020)






"Felt Mountain" / Goldfrapp
https://youtu.be/qLySQ-zuULI











1.
Picasso
Girl with Mandolin
The Seated Harlequin



2.
Metzinger
L’Oiseau bleu








Pablo Picasso / Seated Harlequin - Self-Identity & Picasso's Harlequin
https://www.swarthmore.edu/writing/self-identity-and-picassos-harlequin



Pablo Picasso...

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The
op art
illusion-
in colour-filled
leaps.

Nataraja by Bridget Riley...

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Harlequin

Steam on a mirror
Gas in a bag
Small face
Two huge ears
Sticking out sideways
Dancing on a
Domino...

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Gems, stones, pebbles and crystal
Are the only assets we gleefully haul
Harlequin wonders on the ground stealthily crawl
But monochrome human eyes rarely enthralled 

Red, green, blue, orange and yellow
gems dance in the mid of the meadows
From the rainbows the colors they cling
Blend with sand and river...

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(Glorified Pear Honey)

The lowly pear,
no zip, no burn.
Major juice, anemic flavor.

Add orange and lemon for bite.
Grind all to blend.

Add sugar for sweetness,
cook, covered, in 200 degree oven,
eight or more hours,
as you sleep.

Upon awakening,
add maraschino for color, 
seal in sterilized jars,
store in pantry.

Pear Honey
on morning toast,
grants...

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Turn your cheap tricks;
And we all turn our backs,
Nobody will laugh at a jester like that.

Your black and your white,
Now an unrighteous grey,
It seems there's no call for a joker today.

You can play to the devil 
And the fallen kings too...
Who else would have time...

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Heed this warning, dear ladies,
Sage advice I would impart:
Don't waste your love on a man
With a harlequin heart.
He can never be trusted,
His words won't be sincere,
He will never be faithful,
And he won't shed a tear
When your dreams lie in tatters
And he's left you alone,
And he'll...

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Gulpin’ kelp, keepin’ me trim…
Fill it to the rim!

Vagabond dope
Don’t do dope

Thriftydrift Frank
Never seen the bank

Sillypill Willy
Sportin’ shrunken lily

KellyJane Superbeg
Win the game, show the leg

Sandy Candy
Not too dandy

Beachnymph scrapeape
Frictionwitch lacergrate

Fishydish squishywish
Krabknish quitedelish...

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On clear nights, if you wish

to toast to the man in the moon

with a glass of fine wine,

you will find no smile on his face.

He laughs no more,

barely conceals his tears

beneath his chalk-white make-up.

 

For him, pain and ecstasy

were mere shadow puppets

of a sense of...

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She's a mirror to the outside world
Prostetic porcelain girl
She appears as a rag doll torn
An honest case
Still born
Tried so hard to make the show
To condemn it all to hell
I guess I will never know
How to diminish the spell

Shrouded in the lucid dream
I will number the...

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Harlequin is moody and sad
Columbine is acting crazy again
His behaviour was extremely bad
Readily accepting part of the blame.

Difficult Columbine plays hard to get
She's furious with his mad antics
Plotting revenge to make him regret
Before long she will have him frantic.

Harlequin decided he would make-up
He bought an...

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Young love shows,
youths true foolishness.
So desperate to be found,
in each other’s ignorance,
to often they drown.

Too quick to say forever,
too young to know the truth.
They place everything,
on the trust of another,
willing to die for what they
are not sure is even true.

They promise the future,
when they can’t...

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She's a mirror to the outside world
Prostetic porcelain girl
She appears as a rag doll torn
An honest case
Still born
Tried so hard to make the show
To condemn it all to hell
I guess I will never know
How to diminish the spell

Shrouded in the lucid dream
I will number the...

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