Best Magritte Poems

green apples are time-bound
illusions, handcuffs to an ancient
art; we share a common
ancestor, out on a limb

the butterfly doesn't know the scent
of ripe papaya or that orchids
hang loosely from a primordial sky, we live between
this taste swirling in our mouths, hungering
for kisses that bring us to...

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so
     banal
                yet
deadpan
absurd
             clashing
          ...

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reputedly surreal-
but oh,oh so real

Magritte's Cigarette Girl

 my artwork for this caption and numerous others are 
on my Facebook page...

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Belgian Rene Magritte
whose paintings were so neat
Full of stilled enigmatic
in scenesso idiosyncratic...

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Rene Magritte so surrealiste
was also a moralste
His art as a dream
never reveal what they dream...

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Belgium's Rene Magritte
an enigma in art so discrete
Everyday objects so deadpan
its here surrealism began...

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Brussel's surreal Rene Magritte
whose art some  think rather neat
His painting* is a bit of a lark
so often deadpan&stark

*https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_to_Be_Reproduced...

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Renee Magritte,an enigma in a bowler hat
I wonder what we should make of thst
perhaps they are his alter ego
he never said so we'll never know...

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(Based on the painting “The Treachery of Images” by René Magritte)

If you label symbols traitors
Since they’re only indicators
Rather than the actual things they signify,
Then you’re logically unable
To affirm your very label
Is a truth and not a metaphoric lie....

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