CLERIHEW - MANET
...Pre- impressionist Edouard Manet
loved to paint both night &day
Completing the piece so very swift
exercising his god-given gift *(see Ephesians 2:10 poiema)...
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Categories:
edouard, art, word play,
Form: Ekphrasis
Catwalk and Galops
...The Blipe'n: Blippers Made there debut in a six man tagteam amtch
against the current champions. It was billed and Promoted as a six man tag. But one member of the World champions (tagteamchamp"s pa...
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Categories:
edouard, creation, fashion, games, good
Form: Bio
Le Chemin De Fer - With Apologies To Edouard Manet
...Victorine, with your back to the fence,
A sleeping puppy and a book in your lap,
Looking respectable, prim and demure.
Is that what they call a shirtwaist dress?
I wouldn’t know, but the last t...
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Categories:
edouard, art,
Form: Blank verse
Theories of Every Big and Little Thing
...Key CapitalistYang/CreolistYin EcoHistoric Concepts
I find a fuzzy irony in this morning’s early search for a new journal notebook, having filled my last from what had been, five years ago, an inc...
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Categories:
edouard, culture, earth, health, history,
Form: Prose Poetry
Why France
...France gave America the Statue of Liberty,
In 1865, from Edouard de Laboulaya, his act;
It begot Joan of Arc who insisted that,
Nationality bet religion as a matter of fact.
The Free French wer...
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Categories:
edouard, america, education, football, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Luncheon On the Grass
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Has anyone ever heard of Edouard Manet?
The late artist painted something controversial in his day.
Art connoisseurs can see it on display
if they visit a museum in Paris called the Musee D’...
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Categories:
edouard, art, woman,
Form: Rhyme
Springtime With Edouard Manet
...Easter is a time where we construe
The beauty of renewal blooming through
Little birds that chirp above the vales
While sweeter ladies peep at passing males
Charming is the humour passing round
Fain...
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Categories:
edouard, funny, nature, people, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Simple Unoccupied Bench
...The simple bench sits
Unoccupied now
Classic table holds
Intent to write poems
Correspondences
Light sweater blown
Onto yellow
Roses, walkway
Empty no one
Garden neat
Perfect plants
Fe...
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Categories:
edouard, art, fantasy, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Blended
...images slowly set
as colours cry
wet-into-wet
Inspired by James Peranteau's recent poem ALL COLORS CRY
Whistler was a master of this technique as was Manet.A favourite of mine see this link...
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Categories:
edouard, art
Form: Ekphrasis
Vignette-First Among Equals
...A debutante was Berthe Morisot
But her mother loved her a lot
So a pupil of Corot she became
And marrying a Manet brought her more fame
With genre painting she made her name
Note Berthe (1841-...
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Categories:
edouard, art
Form: Ekphrasis