Clerihew Hassam
...Prolific painter Childe Hassam
foremost impressionist of 'Uncle Sam'
Flags also his motif
his patriotics were a regular brief...
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Categories:
hassam, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Ekphrasis On Isles of Shoals
...silent sea from afar
glazed in admiral and arctic blue
softly shifting to pointilism
as it rushes to the rocky shore
whilst sky in faded ivory and teal
spells prelude to April rain
rugged roc...
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Categories:
hassam, appreciation, art, nature, sea,
Form: Ekphrasis
Sweetheart of Pakistan
...There are times
You see in the eyes of a child
An Angel
Our Alice in wonderland
Through the looking glass
Even General Zia yielded to her charm
In our dreams she is ageless like the winds car...
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Categories:
hassam, angel, blessing, celebrity, dance,
Form: Light Verse
Fifth Avenue Nocturne 1895: Childe Hassam
...i met a grey and we spoke briefly in the rain
it assured me that it was nothing like those fictional characters
that still buzzed in the minds of the “most intelligent species”
that it saw before ...
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Categories:
hassam, lifeme, me,
Form: Free verse