Best Matisse Poems

stand where you want to
you'll be drawn in
picture yourself
choose a spot
the joy of life is to 
       undulate with freedom with others to 
              form poetic...

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I don't know where I tangle to
But I know that I emerge 
I'm all the senses you'd pander to
From stillness to full surge 
When fronds sway breezily I'm there
Yet vines encroach my throat I fear
Is it worth it to step in or flee
There is only...

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Look you for Matisse's Daughter?
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The cat glides paw in the water.
It is glaring at three goldfish.
Jolly tulips are on left side.
The bowl with fish is on a dish.

Gawp at colors so bright in frame...
The cat glides paw in the water.
I guess the fish have fear...

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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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SIT DOWN LIKE MATISSE 


Sit down like Matisse 
with coloured paper and scissors 
and cut a red Eastern poppy - 
papaver orientale! 

Stare at goldfish in a bowl, 
consider your life in art; 
what it's done for your soul: 
luxe, calme et volupte....

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Acrylic is an exuberant technique
giving life to colors so unique,
reminiscent of a Matisse.

The pine-scented breeze drifts
from mounts to hills,
an ambient of skylarks trills. 

The French Autumn landscape
with mounts and lake,
an escape for the elite.
 
The noon holds mystique,
away from harsh critique 
paints lovely Bernadette. 

The...

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Hothouse atmosphere like a harem,
but this is not his only kind.
"Still Life with Vegetables"
causes my nod as well
of a nice canvas
with old pitcher
in picture
and the 
fruit.


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Henri Matisse
became a person of interest to the local police
when he painted La Dance
they suggested he plan to shortly leave La France....

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MADAME MATISSE 1
green with envy
a master's wife-
portrait-not still life
MARGUERITE 2
oh marguerite
oh so sweet
in pretty dress,so neat
HAIR 3 
la chevelure-
locks in shocks
matisse,ma cher
LORETTE 4
lorette,ma petite
so sad,so sweet
THE SISTER 5
one of three,enfamille
her gaze,engages,we
AN ODALISQUE 6
curve and shape,for sure
sans evrything,mais
concubine et paramour
STUDENT GIRL 7
greta moll-
still life,doll
ITALIAN GIRL 8
laurette,ma...

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MATISSE AGAIN
Amelie,Marguerite each neat
dressed oh so sweet.Lorette
Antoinette portrayed so calm
and yet..day dreaming
student,Italian or odalisque
upstairs maid,enchapeau,chevelure
I’m sure, one if not all
awaited Henri’s call, never
to suppose immortality in
their canvas pose.

Listen to me read this ekphrasis on youtube under name of ichthyschiro...

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Who would ignore a giraffe?
Place it off-centre and 
perhaps I would, on a particularly grey day
where I was all but disappearing myself

"Please point it out to me," I might say,
all the colour returning to my face,
joie de vivre leaping into the essence of me
as you...

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MATISSE MAIDENS
Maidens..so many.Marguerite
dressed so neat, Laurette and
Lorette so sad, so sweet.The
upstairs maid with Greta Moll
his still life doll.Odalisques 
curves and shapes, in colour
and drapes.Chapeaux and
Chevelure with locks astray.
A sister or two,and a wife, green
with envy,to paint and portray

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nude abstractions-
cut-outs 
blue on blue

a Hiku is any English language variation on the Japanese haiku...

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With
        fingers
                     bent
he brushed
no more
             ...

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re-post inspired by Janis contest

With
        fingers
                     bent
he brushed
no more
         ...

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