Best Michelangelo Poems

I told him we were broken, the way
horses can be, and he galloped through 
the sentence like a cowboy, less a
heart.  I loosed the...

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Sun is held hostage by a blanket of clouds,
reflecting an agitated addict's ashtray.
Birds depart from soaked naked branches,
as eyes seek refuge from the ugliness of...

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      - "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." - 
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If I had a clone
I surely would be
exuberant
flamboyant and fancyfree
I would sing and dance
for the whole world to see
aboard every single cruiseship
on every sea
I would...

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Sun is held hostage by a blanket of clouds,
reflecting an agitated addict's ashtray.
Birds depart from soaked naked branches,
as eyes seek refuge from the ugliness of...

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She is in her bed,
lights filtering through crown glass,
shadows and curved lines
playing with her nudity,
an old erotic sculpture.

Shadows and curved lines-
they know how to play...

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my new peach dress
so fastidiously pressed
in hope that a man will seek to caress

Strauss’s Blue Danube calls
reverberates through halls
streaming from Michelangelo walls

coy ladies smile 
bright...

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A crystal lattice so Devine
Slowly falling on earth supine
Surely we now must redefine
Our place in nature so sublime

Such elegant beauty a shrine
A crystal lattice so...

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RIDING THE TRAIN

Catchin' the train to the city makes an interesting day
Peak hours all the workers going to earn their pay
Many nationalities all different in...

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The sunset tints the mountain's purple peaks,
inking its shawl of alabaster snow.
And sculpting a stream trickling down clay cheeks,
Nature surpasses Michelangelo.

Shadows scurry to merge with...

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Well over a hundred years ago
The illustrious Vincent Willem Van Gogh
A genius somewhat like Michelangelo
With thousands of artworks in his cluttered studio
From the sublime to...

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When life seems all backed up
with pressers all around
I slip into the bathroom
and let my trousers down
It's private and so quiet
and I like the cool...

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I have to admit, I was perusing Broken Wings page and saw what she had written for a contest about Michelangelo  vs  De...

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Down the stairs turned chiseled rocky steps
the bare beauty cascades like an ebullient rapid
raw grace of Eve glistens on the satin skin
tinged with the hues...

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Memorizing the view in the Vatican City
I'm just a visitor at the Sistine chapel
admiring the ceiling,a masterpiece of
art,Impressed by the painting of
'Adam's Creation",my mind just
thinking...

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