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Degas Poems - Poems about Degas


Premium Member 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...

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Categories: degas, art,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member PASTELISTA degas chardin
PASTELISTA  degas chardin manner &     movement investigating light broader   freer soft fragility layered   superimposed turpentine   sealed...

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Categories: degas, art,
Form: Didactic



Premium Member 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...

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Categories: degas, art,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Clerihew Degas
Edgar Degas did not mingle so shy he remained single His art self contained & absorbed perfect though expensive 'daubs'...

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Categories: degas, people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member 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...

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



Premium Member 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...

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Categories: degas, art, christian, dance, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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...

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

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