Gustave Mahler travelled far & wide
his emotive adagietto* he could not hide
Categories:
gustave, music,
Form: Monoku
She's lost in thought,
Childhood memories flash through her,
They come like torrents,
Opening the door to her mind,
In her, her past finds a place.
She reminisces on fond and bitter memories,
A deluge of stories,
Separated from her family at an early age,
She journeyed through the unknown,
She was saddled with the untold.
She walked through eerie nights,
She was cocooned in life's shadows,
She sojourned through shrivelled meadows,
Gradually she walked towards the light,
A helping hand reached for her.
Tears stream down her eyes,
She turns around,
The newspaper has a hold on the man,
The ladies are neck-deep in their discussion,
A man looks away probably lost as she was.
September 24, 2023.
Paul Gustave Fischer Painter - the tram
Categories:
gustave, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
builder of….
garabit viaduct
eiffel tower
consultant to statue of liberty
brilliant civil engineer Gustave Eiffel
contributed to all three
researched meteorology and aerodynamics
made major contributions to both fields
Categories:
gustave, history,
Form: Free verse
JESUS AND PETER ON THE WATER
(Gustave Brion)
Walking on the water,
Walking on the sea,
I see Jesus walking,
Walking towards me,
Coming, He's coming near,
In fear, I'm dismayed,
He says, "Take heart, it's I,
Do not be afraid."
I say, "Bid me come, Lord,
Walking towards You,"
He says, "Come" and I walk
On the water blue,
The wind blows boisterous,
And I look at it,
Frightened, begin to sink,
Sinking bit by bit,
I cry out, "Lord, save me!"
He caught me stretched out,
"O you of little faith,
Wherefore did you doubt?"
Then we walked together
Back towards the ship,
The wind ceased, we all bowed
To Him in worship,
"You are the Son of God,
Now we know it's true",
That day, learnt a lesson,
Let me share with you,
"Look ever to Jesus,
Even in the storm,
Do not doubt His power,
Wonders He'll perform.
I was about to drown,
A wind's blow away
From sinking in deep doubt,
But He saved the day.
When I stepped out that day,
My faith, He restored,
Will you walk on water
Along with the Lord?"
28th March 2023
Categories:
gustave, jesus, miracle, water,
Form: Quatrain
Art teacher Gustave Moreau
with symbolist painting made a show
Tolerant&intelligent
in biblical work 'heaven sent'
Categories:
gustave, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Engraver Gustave Dove
with lithograph art did love
Social squalor in a bad dream
were his usp theme
Categories:
gustave, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Gustave Charpentier fro Moselle
a one-trick pony truth to tell
His opera money-spinne 'Louise'
fees rolled in with great ease
Categories:
gustave, music, people,
Form: Clerihew
French-born Gustave Caliebotte
art became his lot
So extravagent with perspectives
so considered byome as too decorative
Categories:
gustave, art, poetry,
Form: Clerihew
Frenchman Gustave Courbet
in paint loved to have his say
He also adored self-portraits
he&his ego were clearly soulmates
Categories:
gustave, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
So largescale was Gustave Courbet
a radical wth paint had his say
Using a very rich green
in his landscapes usually can be seen
Categories:
gustave, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Talented Gustave Moreau
so prolific with many paintings on the go
Erudite & imaginative
a gifted teacher& influence so long lived
Categories:
gustave, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Writing poetry draws one within
allowing the inward self to demonstrate
all that's been down there deep and dark
making your light shine before its too late
Irritation is a descriptive word
one that we all seek to emulate
it tasks our mind to our extreme
pointing higher worthy to contemplate
Consider the classical violinist supreme
who has a true ever living ear
but the challenge of quality reproduction
making the fingers touch without fear
But these fingers have a mind of their own
which can stop any reproduction
no matter how the sound comes over
it all continued under construction
The frustrations of a poetic writer
causes irritation within the grey matter
but there's hope with a capital H
inspiration comes to get one on a starter
'Quote:
" I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within."
- Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) French Novelist.
Categories:
gustave, poets, words, writing,
Form: Rhyme
THE EIFFEL TOWER
In the city of light their aspire
Was to build to a climax higher
Gustave Eiffel you see
Said just leave it to me
I can satisfy all your desire
Monsieur Eiffel seen with affection
By Dames de Paris for perfection
Of his manner de Gaul
Mais plus ca most of all
For his grand magnifique **ection
21 April 2020
Categories:
gustave, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Madame Bovary is the première novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. It tells the melancholy story of the entitled marriage into a lackluster middle-class lifestyle that ends in tragedy.
Docteur Bovary: Blessed Are The Meek.
Yet was oft-mocked, a humble sort,
Subsist med recruit, 2nd strength,
Officier in Public Health grants.
Weds Dubuc, whom his mother grants,
Meets Emma Rouault whom his sort,
Héloïse dies courts Emma, strength.
A doctor of meager practice strength,
Is compassionate and bored grants,
Lacking enterprise ought to sort.
Clueless sort, strength was debted
Emma and grants's her owning
dalliances by various men
justified as being fate.
2020 February 10
Categories:
gustave, character, muse,
Form: Tritina
“To draw you must close your eyes and sing” Pablo Picasso
Mountain gold and marionettes
Trunks like a million strings
Breathtaking, breathless
Articulating Autumn’s plush
Singing through timeless time
11/27/2019
Categories:
gustave, art,
Form: Free verse
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