Depicted Poems

In Commissioning Frescoes for His Library, a Renaissance Churchman Drives a Hard Bargain

...The Cardinal requires Ser Bernardino, 
as high contracting party to the tasks, 
to paint ten histories in damasceno, 
in gold, vermilion: also asks 

that other pleasing colours be employed, 
t...

Mystery of Humpty Dumpty

...


In the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty 
Who or What he is is still a mystery.
Some think he may in fact be an egg
though the rhyme hints at no such knowledge.
And yet he’s always depicted as on...

Left Like a Cliffhanger

...How many pages 
Did you flip through 
Of mine?

That I was written 
With the embodiment 
Of everything you deify?

Trying to picture me 
Gliding 
Through your mind 

A kaleidoscope 
Of i...

Gazing

...gold hohlraum................................................Plasma Creation 
      he didn't want to influeunce a generation of people. He saw himself as an entertainer. He used the statistical dat...

SONNET OF REMORSEFUL

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Hear me, blonde tressed bonnie-lassie!
Kill me not by thine raunchy eyes.

Never could ye imprison me
By thy voluptuous coax

Thou can't get blood out of a stone
Akin to it, tranquility from...

SONNET ON CUPID

...Oh! illusion of all illusions
Art thou incarnated as Cupid?

Depicted ye with wings
And hath armed with love-shaft

Entwines ye many hearts of innocence
And warms thyself in their perdu passio...

Toxic Beauty

...
 ART!

He painted my death,
With such dedication I've never seen before.
Every stroke of his brush, on that paper, marking out each curve, twist, and turn my body made
As I writhed in pain.

...

Ashta-nayika -8, Swadhina-bhartruka, Bonding well with her beloved

...________________

Heroine content with her beloved’s 
love, affection and dedication, 
one with her own mind.
____________________

Heard had I tales of male malefaction
By and large true, fa...

Ashta-nayika -7, Proshhita-bhartruka, Waiting in vain for her beloved

..._______________

Separated from her spouse who’s sojourning, 
the heroine awaits with deep longing.
___________________

The warmth of a day nigh sunny
Nor silver of moon passing by
Gives me ...

Fire - Joseph Wright of Derby - 1395

...
The fire was an obvious choice of landscape art for the painter to accentuate the effect between moonlight and smoke filled sky so dark.
A canvas illuminating the power of vivid red hot to stark.
...

A Story Sketched by Stars

...The stars of heaven a story tell,
as on the canvas of the sky
with pictures, bold and intricate,
each night they speak without a word.

Ancient stargazers sketched the signs
that God arranged a...

The Battles Of A Bad Day's Night

...
If instinct could alert beforehand;
Reflecting moments as all stand...
The ought process of echoing mind,
For rights to get wrongs tightly bind-
Assign each voice unto confident tears,
Without...

We've got water to walk on

...A storm is brewing
It's coming to a head.
all of society is in danger 
but by the Spirit we will be led
the blustering winds of bigotry are fierce 
causing racial isolation
the hurricanes of ha...

Your Choice S - Bird 1923 Brancusi

...I am a bird in space 
      despite not having my wings depicted 
                I possess strength, speed, and vigor, 
                            coupled with delicate beauty. 
               ...

She’s Savage

...She’s a savage about her promise it’s were her faith resides,  
Riding in the reckless she’s a sinners sanctioned dream, 
You’ll find it if her lingos lost it’s something she can’t hide
A woman wi...

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