Strayed Sheep - William Holman Hunt
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Straying away from the straight path
in search of sumptuous grass,
Me and my friends meander to the mountain top
on a crisp clear sunny day,
The cottony white clouds mirror our soft tufts...
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Categories:
holman, animal, appreciation, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Strayed Sheep
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Cliff hanger story -
Freshly shorn scrawny
Steady assembly ruptured
Atop rocky bluff rugged
Shivering survival questionable
Seceder’s dream quenchable
Reject herd abi...
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Categories:
holman, adventure, animal, character, confidence,
Form: Couplet
MONOKU ekphrasis HUNT
...William Holman Hunt paints* Jesus at our door**
the Holy Spirit wlll convict to be sure...
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Categories:
holman, art, christian,
Form: Didactic
CLERIHEW ecphrasis IV
...William Holman Hunt of PRB
painted scripture Revelation 'three -twenty'
'Light of the World' * to Jesus' flock
listen ..do you hear His gentle knock?...
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Categories:
holman, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Clerihew Hunt
...William Holman Hunt a pre-rphelite
with much detil would cite
An insistent didactic theme
moralistic as well it would seem...
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Categories:
holman, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Clerihew Hunt
...William Holman Hunt
when founding PRB took a punt
Detail upon detail was the key
as in 'Light to the World' was to be...
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Categories:
holman, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Mister Holman
...His name was, in fact, March Holman-
The man who was last head of the clan!
The second husband of Miss Ida Fields;
My stepgrandfather sure as redbird trills!
Both generations called him by one ...
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Categories:
holman, courage, grandfather, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Two Words
...I heard a voice across the road
A girl from class I hardly knew
Not just “Hello”
But “Hello Chris”
Two words where maybe
Just one would do
It was Joy Pepper
Smoky grey eyes
And a smile so w...
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Categories:
holman, crush, sad, teen love,
Form: I do not know?
Sirens
...(Victorian artist William Holman Hunt was
both attracted and repelled by his models)
Can we agree that, terrified of sex,
Hunt couldn’t help but hunt it, seek it out?
There doesn’t seem to be a...
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Categories:
holman, relationship,
Form: Sonnet
Circumspice 5
...Part 5 -- Si Monumentum Requiris …
Some tattered banners (from the Crimean War?
so who on earth was fighting – and what for?)
That Holman Hunt thing, over on the right,
with Jesus and His lan...
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Categories:
holman, history, , memorial,
Form: Couplet
Another Song: Inspired By M Carl Holman, By Ron Porter
...Resigned to my isolation,
stuck in stasis sure as death
Weary of my solitude
and pained to not be by myself.
I went out to find the crowd
for comfort and, for company.
In each face I saw allowed,
re...
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Categories:
holman, introspection, life, loss, sad,
Form: Lyric