Best Tableaux Poems

Going through its ambiance, (on) with open thoughts,
Past scenes so serene, and picturesque (in situ passed).
A house, its windows just ajar to the tactile winsome...

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George W. Towne

1847 – 1899

From Iowa I came by restless wagon train.
From the mid-west I arrived 
With satchel and silken scalp still intact.
I read Proverbs...

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Marching Rocks



  Like Toffee people chasing the westerly breeze
And, presumably ordered, abruptly, to freeze-
Tableaux is evocative of an ancient command
That left a sprawl of...

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Christmas time haiku -
“tableaux d’une exposition”
post-it notes on walls

Long Tooth
May 25, 2016

The painting here is a beautiful portrait of Mussorgsky the composer of the famous...

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Wild are the spring flowers which win my heart 
wood violets blue, and those Johnnie jump-Up starts
waves of ajunta burgundy glow 
pierced with lost daffodils...

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If Keats could have seen through Hubble’s eyes
when the sonnet ‘Bright Star’ he wrote,
meaning its telescope-imaged skies
with those stellar tableaux afloat,

would he have noted ‘aloft...

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Gerrit Verstraete released his first book of selected poems titled “Mid-Seventies Crisis,” in 
1980 ( Admiral Press, Canada ). “But,” he says, “it’s never too...

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Sitting in the waiting room her sunlit day; complying to their sequence
Amid a foregone conclusion ? Appearing suddenly out of nowhere
Ineffable somehow it seems this,...

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Hast thou clouds? Hast thou storms? Which saintly light kisses and caresses the overgrown field. Such emblematic curves. Notions are not a daisy nor a...

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The Translucent Loft

The girls choir at St. Mary’s still sings there.
Shh, be quiet as we step inside
through these green rectangular doors,
Shh! Listen... 
We can hear...

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The sheer art of peeling a snail is akin to rubbing moth balls in one's eyes. To feel and sense with such ambidextrous wisdom is...

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Sublime reflections ,eye catching tableaux

monstich ekphrasis  tribute to Dutch realism in art

Hear me recite from my 4000+ PS anthology on youtube under my pen...

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Echoing down
        a valley
the luscious beauty of nature
         sets your
...

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DISCONNECTIONS

harmony order
reason &
beauty

&
incidentals
severed
by
upheavals
cerebral &
 austere

a purveyor of
dimensions
to catalogue
&measure reveals
 the obsessive
 elaborate
  laboriously
constructed
tableaux
of
destruction

so instantly
 recognisable in
impressive &
immaculate
artefacts
to
specifically
fire the imagination
&
 concentrate
the interplay 
of
reason in
perpetual motion
 in grappling
&
 conveying
  the painstakingly
drumbeat
of
sensation
amid the melee
of the
orchestrated
  ensembles
   at a distance

the measured
mood
detached
 artificial
yet in
symmetry
 knitting
everything together
in
  cool respect

NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently...

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Perched on figurative shoulder...
taking devil's advocate stance...,
with sharp eyed cognizance
of course Joe King abidance!

Wild eyed traitor Joe Schmoe,
albeit Democrat subjects himself to grow
wing skepticism at...

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