Impasto Poems


Premium MemberWily Wind Whisperer

The unseen maestro, the wily whistling whisperer,
Cunningly twirls a sway in the bending trees,
Dabs, daubs and draws impasto clouds in the sky,
Lilts, entices, leaves to dance in tune, as it whistles on by.

The field of grass compliant, bends to lithe gusts sly.
Laughing to tickling tongue secrets, beholden in every sigh.
The wind teases waves, torments lakes to ripples.
Their surfaces combed and drawn to rugged stipples.

The wily whisperer winds its way into cracks and holes.
Creating drafts that shake the drapes like ghostly souls.
Defying all attempts to block their breathy intrusion.
You can feel it breathing in and out, expiring confusion.

Oh wily wind, your whispers collude and unwind,
The peaceful slumber of earth and heart entwined.
Categories: impasto, peace, wind,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberBrush Strokes

Each brush stroke on the canvas
marks a moment in time
the artist left behind.
A fragment of thought expressed in 
a line, a trace, 
a spot, a dab, 
a splash, a splotch,
a daub by palette knife impasto.
The brush a fleeting hand
expressing the artists
shade and light, color and flare,
texture and shape in composition.
It marks the way the artist paints,
to convey the image in a way,
where the parts are 
much more than the whole, 
like footprints 
tracing the inception of creation.
Categories: impasto, art,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberACRYLISTA orozo danield

ACRYLISTA orozco daniels
fast
  drying
    polymer
permanence
water
  soluable
emulsated
transparently
      thin
yet
impasto
  thickened
&inert
Categories: impasto, art,
Form: Didactic

Premium MemberVase With Fifteen Sunflowers - Van Gogh

Impasto brushstrokes, fifteen sunflowers bursting in mustard yellows
Categories: impasto, appreciation, flower,
Form: Monoku

Premium MemberImpasto Passage

IMPASTO PASSAGE
initiatives
to sparkle
as
bizarre
idiosyncratic
       unusual
features

a wayward conception
so convincing
  as an illusion
with criteria
   powerfully
     elaborated

a vigorous
 scene
  simultaneously
graphically
&typically
    exhausting

 it
initiates
a
 complex analysis
so visual
&
  appreciated
in a
 wondrous manner


THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two way interplay and often a unique interpretation by the enigma so derived
Categories: impasto, poetry,
Form: Other


Premium MemberEkphrasis On House of Parliament At Sunset

stupendous silhouette of castle 
piercing through hazy fog
reminds me of your shadow
as you come to meet me at twilight

mixed hues of spectral sky 
reflected in dreamy water 
in furrowed thick impasto
of amber and sandstone
are glowing ember
of your undying love.



Notes: Claude Monet painted a series of impressionist oil paintings of the Palace of Westminster, home of the British Parliament, in the autumn of 1899 and the early months of 1900 and 1901 during stays in London. All of the series' paintings share the same viewpoint from Monet's window or a terrace at St Thomas' Hospital overlooking the Thames and the approximate canvas size of 81 cm × 92 cm (32 in × 36 3/8 in).They were, however, painted during different times of the day and weather conditions. This one was during sunset. ( Photo and reference credits to Wikipedia).


20 May 2021

For "All Yours ( May 20) Poetry Contest"
Sponsored by Brian Strand
1st place
Categories: impasto, appreciation, art,
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium MemberEkphrasis On Artist's Garden At Giverny

grand garden at Giverny
are gems gorgeously
nestling near a warm abode
where golden path lies beneath
in thick impasto and rugged strokes
transforming terrestrial moment
into amaranthine beatitude

baggy brush movement
of varied greens~ 
transposing from  soft geneva
to gecko and genoa
interlacing with periwinkle petals 
blended with amethyst and magenta
unfurling paradisaical artist's milieu

teeming trees reflect
dappled sunshine
in exuberant flora
resembling your eyes
exuding ethereal joy~
every time you look at me


30 April 2021
For "All Yours (April 30) Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand
1st place 


Notes:The Artist's Garden at Giverny (French:Le Jardin de l'artiste à Giverny) is an oil on canvas painting by Claude Monet done in 1900 now the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
It is one of many works by the artist of his garden at Giverny over the last thirty years of his life. ( Photo and info credits to Wikipedia)
Categories: impasto, appreciation, art,
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium MemberEkphrasis On the Abandoned House

wild rushing strokes 
of broad bristles
dominating seaside sky
of ivory and indigo
in thick impasto~
like our faded footsteps 
along  *Stroomi shoreline

Wild fiery grasses ~
deserted yet persistent
resembling your windswept hair
in times you forget the time
waiting just for me~

those desolate windows
are your eyes of blue
half awake at siesta
dreaming of my return

20  March 2021


Notes: While glancing on 'Abandoned House' painting created in c.1886 by Alfred Sisley in Impressionism style. ( Photo and info credits to WikiArt)

All Yours (March 20) Poetry Contest
By Briand Strand
1st plce
Categories: impasto, 9th grade, art, nature,
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium MemberEkphrasis On the Magpie By Monet

A lonesome magpie~
perching on a forlorn wooden stairs
on a snowcapped mountain side
spells serenity in the day light.

The barn house reflects
the pale lavender shadows~
a soft blend of chiaroscuro; 
The thickened snow in impasto 
reminds me of winter daydreams 
of my love so far away.

The hanging frosty pearls 
on dancing dainty twigs~
sparkling like chandeliers 
in ancient sanctuaries;
Like the diamonds I keep
as a symbol of his promise
that one day soon~
he will come back to me.

3 February 2021


Notes: The Magpie (French: La Pie) is an oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the French Impressionist Claude Monet, created during the winter of 1868–1869 near the commune of Étretat in Normand.

(Photo and info credits to Wikipedia)
Categories: impasto, appreciation, art,
Form: Ekphrasis

Beautiful Moss

Unassuming beauty of emerald evergreen.
Verdure cool patches of sombre sunscreen.

Flowerless soft carpets of impasto  strokes.
The gorgeous mossy sponge .. vibrance evokes.

The gregarious green hosts.. fungi, frog, insect 
The bedecked forest floors.. symbiosis perfect.

Soft velvet cuddles close....the roots and trees  hard.
Light and shade brighten up....the dank courtyard.

The rolling stones all frown..they grimace.. in grief.
Can't we gather the Moss?..the beauty ..leaf by leaf !!



Dated 11th November 2018

Submitted to the Overlooked Beauty Poetry Contest.
Sponsor Jesse Rowe.
Categories: impasto, beauty, flower, green, grief,
Form: Couplet

Faded Memories

There is no rainbow here
  the mind erases them all in fast succession
into some dull opaque gray white progression
 until not a single image or dream re-appears.

Once there was a palette of colors flowing
  a pastel sketch campitura upon the empty easel
unprotected each color fades in painfull recall sequel
 poorly painted until someone else's picture is showing.

Bleeding down along the edge
 every color fades each into the next
and with the camouflage of displays flexed
 slip away the rainbow bloom wedged.

A couche glaze reflects the light
 giving into saturated blends fugitive licensed blacks
wrapped in the haze clouded visions of dark grays stacked
 with the memories that grisaille the night.

Now with each color faded, all of what was you and me
  remains the untold story of impasto shaded hues
varnishing frame and canvas with the memory true
  a sfumato memory that breathes air with tears to salt the sea.
.
Categories: impasto, color,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberPicture Me

Abstract
impasto
collage my mind-
watercolour me blue
and true
Categories: impasto, art
Form: Cinqku

Premium MemberImpasto

Ideas and vivid images I soon find
Bristle and crowd my mind;
Stirred from sensations hidden below
Now on streaked palettes flow.
Categories: impasto, art,
Form: Bio
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