Frida Poems - Poems about Frida

Paint filtered through your pain and came out as art. Your broken body bent under the weight of a brush but did not succumb, instead infused the canvas with fiery colours mixed in the crucible of your heart. Who knows why Art sometimes asks for so much, wrings blood from bone to write its name across a life. The why we may never know much...

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…painted myself long neck’d giraffe long arms of healing short sleeves painted myself …painted myself …painted myself as only i conceived nailed to a cross beneath my ghostly gown painted myself …painted myself …painted myself a fruity garden on my head concealing chief thorns painted myself …painted myself 7/23/2021...

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The frayed thread that rips from our body, unravels us. This is my condition with existence, but, this isn't me, I am a dream! "Artist Frida Kahlo was considered one of Mexico's greatest artists who began painting mostly self-portraits after she was severely injured in a bus accident. Kahlo later became politically active and married fellow communist artist Diego...

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On The Suicide Of Dorothy Hale Known for her self portraits and her politics Her famous unibrow and her elaborate dress And for twice marrying Mexico's most renown muralist Her paintings which bore her pain were well received And to this day are still growing in success However my intrigue lies in her greatest fail Not still life nor self portrait rather Her...

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A third eye, an open ended topsy-turvy petal blowing gap, a vaginal bore, is what I’ve become. The bloom's long gone. The petals sucked dry with nectar long ago lipped. Every orifice repeats its plea for knowing I, centered as the core of id. I am the warmth burnt from fields of Iris’ and bays of daylilies, I have flowered, soon to die. A third...

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Can I free her, my Frida to fly in the sky to feel the wind’s breathe to hear the wind’s sigh to touch lofty mountains all covered in snow to explore many places where men seldom go to delve into depths of wonder and bliss to surrender completely to love’s gentle kiss? So radiant she dances in moonlight and sun blessed by the blessings of her Holy One. Her heart...

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Self Portrait in a Landscape with the Sun Going Down 1954 Is this the end of the road for me? I can not rest now on my dying bed, Too bleak with the sun going down fast, This is not happening to me. Not when all I want to do is paint damm it! When i looked at this portrait, and wrote i did...

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I sit here Hair all around I am shorn My hair has gone But my anxiety remains Why? Why do I feel so useless Why do I feel that I have been torn apart Only to be put back together With a hole where my soul once lived So I cut my hair To be free I am not free I am without. Now I must paint Draw my...

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