Best Patronage Poems
Mona Lisa: Courting Favor, Spurning Patronage?Beckoning forward, then muting purpose with placid expression;
Courting favor, but scorning gratuity with nobler accession.
Reconnoitering all, yet countenancing none in stolid derision;
Regaling commoners, but transcending all menial patronization.
Subtle smile endears, but spurns all gratification;
Distant stare, onerous repression or dark depression?
All encompassing view, mistrusting miser or...
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Categories:
patronage, art
Form:
Vignette-PatronageArchitect garden & design
Multi-talents were just fine
In that more leisured time-
Capability soon came to fame
Bringing renown to a common name !
Tribute to Lancelot(Capability) Brown (1715-83)
18th century English landscape artist/designer...
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Categories:
patronage, people
Form:
Narrative
Political patronageDonated Clothes are so wrong
hand down offerings
Tired and dusted threads
of political patronage
Turn your heads
the public have had enough
Donated clothes are so wrong
why mast your colours ?
You know you've blown it
when the people have been passed over
...
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Categories:
patronage, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse