Girl With Pearl Earring Johannes Vermeer
a look of love-
into eternity's mirror
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Categories:
johannes, art,
Form: Monoku
Johannes Was a Gentleman
Johannes was a gentleman; she had heard this.
Greta knew him not, but when he entered the room
she sensed it was the lord of the manor.
He was casual; spoke in a low voice.
Seemed to sense that a regular voice might frighten her.
She had never been this close to aristocracy.
Her father had warned her to stay away
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Categories:
johannes, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Johannes Vermeer a Trio of His Girls
VIRGINAL GIRL
begin the beguine..
Make your music mine
LAUGHING GIRL
joy's outflow-from eyes aglow
GIRL WITH EARRING
a look of love-
into eternity's mirror
LACEMAKING GIRL
intricate detail
patient design-
portrait of time
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Categories:
johannes, art, girl,
Form: Ekphrasis
Johannes Vermeer More of His Girls
MUSIC GIRL
when the music ends-
we no longer can pretend
LETTER GIRL
a few words
can make us ill-
or better
WINEGLASS GIRL
a girl with a glass
chateau red-
a touch of class
NECKLACE GIRL
mirror to face
with a necklace-
memory without a trace
PENSIVE LADY
lost in thought,
she sighs...caught
by vermeers eyes
PIANO GIRL
sing and play
concert,piano forte-
art,forgotten today
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Categories:
johannes, art, girl,
Form: Ekphrasis
Johannes Vermeer and His Girls
GUITAR GIRL
the music of the dance,
love in her glance-
to her true love,perchance?
JUG GIRL
a maid,unafraid
innocence..
displayed
LUTE GIRL
her tune,picked by ear
brings forth a tear-
yet draws us near
BALANCE GIRL
a delicate touch
frozen in time-
a story in mime
SINGING GIRL
the singers or her song
forever to us belong-
picture music vivant
THINKING GIRL
think on,think long
thought,her everyday song
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Categories:
johannes, art, girl,
Form: Ekphrasis
Johannes Brahms
JOHANNES BRAHMS.
Soulful tumulted movements grounded in stoically melodic
Vast pools of sounds gliding in dire drumbeats of the heroic
A gift for the bleakness of being sealed in alchemical cistern
Heart stringed intense expressions within a dedicated discipline.
A chromatic boldness in harmony of some faltered age
Into the
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Categories:
johannes, celebrity, music,
Form: Verse
Inspired By Johannes Vermeer's Girl With a Pearl Earring
I am a suitor sneaking upon her
or perhaps a light breeze upon her shoulder
exasperation or is it disappointment parts her lips,
simple indifference, unfulfilled hope?
turban undisturbed,
in careful turn from light
would be I the target of her stare,
the reason for embalmment leap
to me, to sit
on this Mauritshus bench.
©Kathryn McLoughlin Collins
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Categories:
johannes, art,
Form: Free verse