Best Rousseau Poems
** This poem is in memory of Lauren Rousseau, one of teachers who died in the Sandy Hook Shooting. Lauren died trying to protect children. Lauren was a gentle, spirited, active young woman, who loved kids.
Lauren plays duck duck goose with the children in Heaven.
Chasing each little angel around the circle until they burst out with laughter.
After playing duck duck goose Lauren and the chidlren float balloons into the world.
To be received by someone in need of an angel.
At night Lauren and the children dance around Heaven before flying over the world,
And protecting people in need.
While sprinkling a little love into their hearts.
A pioneer was Theodore Rousseau
dramatic skies he oft did show
Painting en plein-air
letting nature speak 'loud&claire'
Swiss-born writer/composer Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Thanks for his modern ideals of education to him we owe.
The Age of Enlightenment was brought
by his type of political and humanistic thought.
French painter Phillipe Rousseau
with still life had a go
Paris salon medals one two three
& Knight d'honeur was to be
The first modern man and honest human
A lone father from Plato’s Republic
An innocent dove corrupted by man
But who learned how to play his soul’s music
Though his flesh by decree was frail and sick
Whose love was philosophy with her veils
Though he was pelted with rocks by man's gales
Now on the island where angels still cheep
Far from the noise of mortal tattletales
Little Chateau, the happy land of sleep
Customs man Henri Rousseau
part-time gave painting a go
Great detail was his particular thing
with child-like eyes he did bring
Theodore Rouseu
painted landscapes for shows
He also loved Japanese art
giving it a popular jump-start
PRIMITIVISTA
direct
simple
innocencd
in
naive
elaborations
fancifuly
pictured
predestriamical
unsophistications
in
connotations
of
artistic
purity
freed
from
the
formal