Some late blooming occurred in the seventies
when 'Hey Jude' and the sunshine in her head
went public.
She settled into a craft shop, gently molested
by Applejack and Californian Skunk
until a self-image exploded.
An aftershock of rainbows continued.
Ruckle lips roam a now manic makeup.
Gainsborough hats trump frizzy kablooey.
On the boardwalk, she stands palimpsest,
a fragmented journalism of more colorful times.
She turns to her subjects, smiles, not for the camera,
but at the one thing that detonated her
back when she was just a girl
with looking-glass eyes.
Categories:
gainsborough, poetry,
Form: Free verse
England's Thomas Gainsborough
whose portraits folk could not get enough
He used this genre as an escape
to his first love ie the landscape
Categories:
gainsborough, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
morn haze
thin glaze
fine brush
no rush
warm glow
soft blow
bright face
pure grace
long dress
finesse
kids chase
fine place
select
insect
cheerful
joyful
painter's
daughters
12 April 2022
A Brian Strand Premiere Choice Poetry Contest
Notes: An experiment of ekphrasis poem in Footle form on "The Painter's Daughters Chasing a Butterfly" which was painted by Thomas Gainsborough. It was created sometime in 1756 and is now in the collection of the National Gallery in London. ( Photo/info credits to wiki media)
Categories:
gainsborough, appreciation, art,
Form: Footle
Some late blooming
occurred in the seventies
when 'Hey Jude'
and the sunshine in her head
went public.
She settled into a craft shop,
gently molested
by Applejack and Californian Skunk
until a self-image exploded.
An aftershock of rainbows
continued.
Ruckle lips roam now
a manic makeup.
Gainsborough hats trump
a woozy kablooey.
On the boardwalk;
she stands palimpsest,
a fragmented journalism
of more colorful times.
She turns to her subjects,
smiles, not for the camera,
but at the one thing
that detonated her
back when
she was just a girl
with looking-glass eyes.
Categories:
gainsborough, poetry,
Form: Free verse
National Gallery London
I visited the National last week,
Famous gallery in Trafalgar Square,
Viewed in awe, John Constables Hay Wain
and other grand masters displayed there.
The original Sunflowers by Van Gogh.
Gainsborough and Matisse there to see.
In truth wasn’t struck by the Lily Pond,
Monet didn’t leave an impression on me.
Categories:
gainsborough, appreciation, art, imagery, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
My Profound Thousandth Poem
Dedicated to England and also
world renown poet Terry Cooper.
England is exciting place to be
Will enjoy it in every opportunity
People of pageantry are such a site
Forty in Round Table and were a knight.
There was Marlowe and Shakespeare
And Gainsborough to see far and near
Cathedrals, mighty castles with a moot
To see does require much time to devote.
In England is Rugby, Lacrosse and Soccer
Manchester being beaten is a real shocker
Weather will be cool and then end up warm
May need to be prepared for a mighty storm.
When you leave will want to return again
Which is exactly what we both intend
Was it mole in hole or pied piper in wall
Whatever it was old me just can't recall.
James Thomas Horn, Retired Veteran
and one of top 40 Poetry Soup Producers.
Categories:
gainsborough, england, history, humor,
Form: Couplet
ALL IS SIMPLICITY
Create a little business for
the Eye to be drawn from
trees, to return them with more
glee.Variety, lively touches,
surprising effects to make
the heart dance so pictures
walk out from their frame.
All is simplicity and elegance
almost motionless plainness
in a grand style.The eye may
be cheated by appearance and
size, as a tune confused by a
false bass, a fictious bundle of
trumpery in poetical impossibilities.
Fools talk of imitation and
copying, all is imitation, what
makes the difference,not genius
or conception but performance.
From Thomas Gainsborough letters
*A Phrasis is a structured verse where the poet uses selected prose phrases of another writer’s(not a poet) to compile unique poetry therefrom as a tribute thereto,the word phrasis is Greek for phrase.
Listen to me read this phrasis of mine on youtube under the name ichthyschiro
Categories:
gainsborough, art, poetry, writing,
Form: Verse