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El Greco Poems - Poems about El Greco


Premium MemberCasualty Of Your Cruelty

...The radiant shine leaves your aurora
dimming ever so quickly,
as in northern regions you are—borealis 
falling into the southernmost Sahara 
negative gradients descend—australis
The gloss of mor...
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Categories: el greco, betrayal,
Form: Ekphrasis

El Greco

...Life’s secret
 is in the balance
where happiness
— rests

(Dreamsleep: October, 2024)
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Categories: el greco, wisdom,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberClerihew Theotokopolous

...Domeniko Theotokopolous found fame
El Greco was a taken name
He loved lettering
thinking thy made.his paintings sing...
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Categories: el greco, art, people,
Form: Clerihew

Ah Tis Nothing Greater Than

...Ah... tis nothing greater than...

malfunctioning heater 
on that brisk winter day
recorded here as proof positive
regarding following reasonable rhyme.

While scrolling thru 
poems crafted y...
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Categories: el greco, 12th grade, angst, dark,
Form: Rhyme

Annunciation

...
Annunciation 

borne again – prodigy of angels

(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)











El Greco - Dark City (Los...
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Categories: el greco, art, culture, humanity, mystery,
Form: Monoku



Premium MemberImaginations of Solitude

..."Like the silence that screams, cursing solitude
... whispers of faith sing patiently with prayers"

                                              Regina McIntosh

IMAGINATIONS OF SOL...
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Categories: el greco, angst, christian, emotions, hope,
Form: Terza Rima

Premium MemberIn Penitence I Kneel

...painting: The Penitent Peter  by El Greco

In penitence I kneel before your throne,
  head bowed with shame, heart weighed down with sin,
  my sobbing whispers heard only by God 
  reco...
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Categories: el greco, forgiveness, god, prayer, religious,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSomeone To Love-Part 1

...Book in hand, I strode the path
in awesome Autumn splendor.
The warmth of the sun caressing my cheek,
while the cool breeze gently tickled 
goose bumps across my warm skin.
All around me the cre...
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Categories: el greco, loss, love, love hurts,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberDisrobing the King

...emotions roil ~
royal red, head
of humanity,
the second Adam —
painting of El Greco.
women at Jesus feet,
crowd of crowds
presses in.
the King of kings
prepared to be disrobed ~
a season of...
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Categories: el greco, art, christian,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHollywood Bio-Pics a List

...Michelangelo,Goya
                          -Vermeer
Gaugin,Basquiat
                          -Picasso
Turner,Lautrec
                           -Caravaggio
Warhol,Pollock
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Categories: el greco, art, film, people,
Form: List

Cementerio

...I've heard it said that if all the people 
who ever lived and died, were buried together, 
it would fill the size of Spain.

No gazpacho, no El Greco 
No Flamenco and no Bolero
Just row upon row, wit...
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Categories: el greco, death, introspection, life,
Form: Narrative

Repenting Peter El Greco

...since as
everything is Uttered
a land to even up
the eye
you touch grope about
the walls
more and more high
(on) cracks
the third road is the hardest
nowhere somewhere
the third road is the...
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Categories: el greco, inspirational
Form: Free verse

Letter To My Brother From Christy's

..."Ladies and gentlemen, direct from the bar, here's Dean!
                                     Joey quips after one song"

Christy's Sundown: where we uncorked a bottle 
of wine to dine in the Veg...
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Categories: el greco, loss
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberEl Greco

...Sourlaki with chilli flakes
Halloumi salad
Batter-coated seasoned squid
with a Tzatziki
Semolina cake
Retsina
Class!...
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Categories: el greco, food, places
Form: Epulaeryu

Book: Reflection on the Important Things