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Gesso Poems - Poems about Gesso

Premium Member Clouds
...Clouds spiral down and curl around to touch me —not those western drizzle shrouds baring a soul of misery mizzle ...though I adore a good wallow in sorrow —no these clouds come from yonder blue......

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Categories: gesso, beauty, growth, happy, longing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Empty Room
...Alone the bones of the room bear no weight of responsibility nor does it bare its breast of secrets a broken pane provides a breath with a pang of lavender a wistful inhale inhabits the lungs ......

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Categories: gesso, baby, flower, girl, grief,
Form: Free verse



Awaiting a growth spurt that never happened
...Awaiting a growth spurt that never happened When a boy, I wanted to be as tall as my father (he passed away October seventh two thousand and twenty linkedin to congestive heart failure), who ......

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Categories: gesso, 12th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member TEMPORISTA rubens
...TEMPORISTA  illuminated   gesso    clarum     glaire graduations to   temper       &bind in  virtuosity......

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Categories: gesso, art,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Every Day Is a Fresh Start
...Every day is a fresh start, a new beginning. We can reinvent ourselves We can be revitalized and inspired. We can instill hope and love in others. Every face we make, every word we utter Every......

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Categories: gesso, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Immortal Bucolic Painting
...He ran the palm of his hand across the canvas, Felt its soft, smooth surface, excellent fabric. It was well primed with gesso, and he was sure The end result would be an immortal masterpiece <......

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Categories: gesso, appreciation,
Form: Pastoral
Premium Member Painting In Oils
...The flow of the brush slobbering colored pigment upon the gesso... Emerging from the hogs hair brush tip a minute color avenue. Written 3-2-19 For: "Creativity I......

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Categories: gesso, appreciation, art, color, image,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Nine Seventeen, Pm
... Lying in bed, the light of my computer bright against the still images slowly changing on the silent TV across the room. Despoiling the image, nine seventeen, pm stands out on the botto......

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Categories: gesso, time,
Form: Free verse
Torre De Babel
...TORRE DE BABEL Busco a Paz encontro confusão, isto é verdade na Babel da religião. Raça, tribo, nação em todo planeta, línguas em confusão, paz não aceita. Deus, O grande Eu sou, Pai d......

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Categories: gesso, religion, religious,
Form: Chant Royal
Woman Pouring Water
...(after a drawing by Ghirlandaio) We see that it was dashed off in a trice, without a trace of reticence or nerve. The contrapposto thigh, the shoulder’s curve, are perfect. Nothing wasted. All......

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Categories: gesso, art,
Form: Sonnet
Why I Don'T Get Jackson Pollock
...When he starts a new painting, Canvas stretched taut against the defining frame, Gesso-coated smooth and even, Pure and uniform… How does he begin? Are his tubes of paint arrayed in careful ro......

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Categories: gesso, art, religious,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member A Good Year
...It snowed last night. Sometime after the New Year arrived And left everything pristine Covered in a thick gesso Applied by Mother Nature For just such an occasion As I looked upon this glory I real......

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Categories: gesso, new year,
Form: Free verse
Palette of Dreams
...Colors of the sunset painted on the sky canvas mixed emotions abstract thoughts impressions of love cloud strokes lost a palette of dreams sits by the waste side a talent of words a misguided brush ......

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Categories: gesso, art, encouraging, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Collage of a Drifting Love
...Memories of a love I’m losing arrested thoughts on sculpture paper- an altered photograph, adorned by hand cut leaves, evergreen shades, and lace From the page emits, cricket songs drifting......

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Categories: gesso, art, i love you,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Art of Dental Floss
...Here's a tangled thready mass of dental floss Glued on some canvas board with gesso Each layer of the spider's snare dyed a different color One layer dried then layered o'er another O......

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Categories: gesso, funny
Form: Free verse

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