Best Rothko Poems

Step up close
breathe in 
&contemplate...

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The last embers of a sunset
sink below a dark horizon
almost mirroring a Rothko
painting in its somber
and weighted tones.
A sadness has found
a place to settle 
for the evening

and is absorbed 
by the water and sky.
It seems weary, unable
to take form in a thought
and be given a...

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meditative
muses
                  assert
                  expansive
graduations
of coloured
       ...

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With the undulating girl of my dreams, 
In my arms.
I rock back and forth, the night away,
Until the yellow ball bounces on my head,
And extracts a foolish smile, from my unwanting lips....

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Step up close
         into the
field of colour

breathe in and
dream

     colour
            fills our eyes
    enters our
mood

simple
    ...

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DRAW CLOSE 
colour
your mood...

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LOOK CLOSELY

Step up
         into the
field of colour*

  be a part
understand me

breathe in
&
dream

    fill your eyes
'til
I
    enter your
mood


...

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ROTHKO&ALL THAT
open
ornamental
  breathtakingly bold

floating
foreshadowed
  a blank canvas
across&beyond
     out of nothing
 an impression
expressed
  breathe inhale
step up close
&contemplate
 the moment

THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two way interplay and often a unique interpretation by the enigma...

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Marcus Rothkokowitz you may not know
maybe though as Mark Rothko
famed for his expressive abstract
large&expansive colours... to be exact...

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undo
the zip to
open out the
view
&

stroll within
 become a part
to understand
art
reflect
&love what you see
no writing or talking..
only looking..
and looking
layered
      washes
of the profound
&zany
resonate
without
conscious control
in
the simple
        delicate...

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stroll within my picture..
thereby be a part
understand me
love what you see
reflection,makes me whole
no writing or talking..
only looking..and looking...

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Abstractionist Mark Rothko
                                       on a grand scale made bright colours glow...

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come closer, eyes open wide-
                                        ...

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How will I be in 10 years,
the fir tree asks the maple,
the calf asks the cow,
the baby splutters out


I need to know before they publish
the writs. I need to know 
before my head is presented
on a platter to Salome 


Who will follow me?
I need to...

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