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Below are the all-time best Watteau poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of watteau poems written by PoetrySoup members

Clerihew Watteau

Jean-Antoine Watteau
a champion of rococo
Chalk on tinted paper was his thing
many a face to life did bring...

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Categories: watteau, art, word play,
Form: Clerihew

Ekphrasis Snapshot Watteau

WATTEAU (head of a woman)
melancholic
fortitude-
in resigned acceptance...

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Categories: watteau, art, poetry,
Form: Ekphrasis

RUBENISTA watteau titian rubens

RUBENISTA watteau titan Rubens
colour
  is king
as natural adjunct
in essential
write
to imitation
to
  satisfy
   the eye
as
  rocco
    is realised...

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Categories: watteau, art,
Form: Didactic

Ekphrasis-Famous Faces B

warhol
oh oh marilyn had everything
but one flaw-
was so unsure
hopper
the empy chair
explains the sadness in her stare
michelangelo
less a picture of sleep
more of piety and grief
whistler
he was...

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Categories: watteau, art
Form: Ekphrasis

With Trois Crayons

The
eyes show
subjection,
melancholy
and 
a
resigned
acceptance-
yet beauty shines
through.


Ekphrasis lanterne after
Head of a ***** by Watteau...

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Categories: watteau, art, black african american,
Form: Lanterne

Melancholia Pictured

MELANCHOLIA PICTURED
Deep
waters
whirl in a
melancholy
pool

the
eyes show
subjection,
&
a
resigned
acceptance-
yet beauty shines
through.


Duel Ekphrasis -inspired by both
 the Whirlpool by Isaac Lentan
&Head (portrait) by Watteau...

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Categories: watteau, art,
Form: Ekphrasis

Lanternes In Sequence Form

as a sequence

Bella
He
opened
the window-
in streamed his first
love
with
flowers,
dressed
in white-
she haunted his
art.
The
eyes show
subjection,
melancholy
and 
a
resigned
acceptance-
yet beauty shines
through.


Ekphrasis lanterne after
Head of a ***** by Watteau
THE WIFE
Of
Mahler,
Gropius
Franz Werfel-
filled life with...

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Categories: watteau, poetry,
Form: Lanterne