Degas Poems

Degas

degas' impressions
of a ballerina
~ light as a faerie



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Categories: degas, art, perspective,
Form: Haiku

EXPERIMENTALISTA degas miro

EXPERIMENTALISTA 
curiosity
  in opaque
&transparent
invention
of
  dispersed light
dense
  distingished
shaded


   rubbed
surface
drift
 in
 a blended
      texture
overlap
in
  lacy
    patterns
vulnerable
to
light
  reflection
in
  complementary
                hues
strident
&
fused
    in fragility

Categories: degas, art,
Form: Didactic

PASTELISTA degas chardin

PASTELISTA  degas chardin
manner &
    movement
investigating light
broader
  freer
soft fragility
layered
  superimposed
turpentine
  sealed

Categories: degas, art,
Form: Didactic

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

DIVISIONISTA degas signac

DIVISIONITA degas signac
superimposed
 shimmering
scumbles
  of tone
shades
 juxtaposed
pastel optics
in
  parallel pigments
intermingled
 closely
  aligned
   blended
spectrums
of
 elaborated
  illusions
foreshortened

Categories: degas, art,
Form: Didactic

Clerihew Degas

Edgar Degas did not mingle
so shy he remained single
His art self contained & absorbed
perfect though expensive 'daubs'

Categories: degas, people,
Form: Clerihew

Degas Dancers

** Degas Dancers **

Painted or drawn, 
Degas arrested time.
Truly
His dancers
— even those standing,
      watching the others —
Are caught in motion,
In poised postures such
That we think we can feel them
Breathing, alerting
Their limbs
To prepare for performance;
(On stage or in the studio) with
That tension,that anticipation, or
Waiting primed in stage wings
— The blue dancers,
The

Categories: degas, beauty, dance, feelings, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Love So Stated

Love So Stated 


Mother said uncounted times,
“Sally, I know you better than you know yourself,”
But, if that were true she wouldn’t have said so,
For it hurt — much — and I cannot believe she 
Meant such a hurting.  It may have begun when 
I grew from a child into the age of the unpredictable.

We

Categories: degas, art, christian, dance, identity,
Form: Free verse

Lost Degas

Lost Degas

Loves parts in tears of red
Revenge is found with dirt on a spade
The cards of life tell naughty tales
Aces may be black or red, however
The proverb of luck will bite you back
So bury the dead very carefully
As the ballerina dances above us all

Categories: degas, art, beauty, dance, deep,
Form: Light Verse