Long Caravaggio Poems

Guerrilla war in the Athens


Athens a confusing in August, what with the heat and pollution, I had spent the night sitting 
on a park bench, looking at a white wall lit by moonlight, waiting for...

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“The Backburn”



Sands slip through 
a shrinking tide
chair's facing away
from the Sun
back turned 
on the backburn
facing the past 

you are still here
you are still here

back turned
on the backburn
ocean slides 
hypnotic undertow
nipping at your toes
you’re speaking to...

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Heart and art are very closely aligned
My heartbeat accelerates when I view
The artist's canvas so carefully primed
Renaissance art drives emotions askew
Breathless admiration, Caravaggio 
Not one brushstroke out of faithful place
His art is verbal, painful to...

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I stood hidden in the shadows, watching
as Salome, clad in flowing veils, gyrated
to the music, exuding sensual richness.
Herod leered drunkenly at her vibrant body.
Overcome by uncontrolled lusty desire
he promised her anything that she wished for
and,...

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At night, when I remember our love once more,
Us, stained by the shadow that glides in, trembling beneath the gentle star,
Held tight in embrace, like two nomads under the infinite vault of pigments,
Eternally swayed by...

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There he lay on the foul smelling uneven sandy ground,
Dead by beheading, blood seeping underneath the severed head, 
An atrocious act urged by a drunken adulterous  queen.
He was already dead, but the head had...

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L'Empéreur s'amuse

(after Victor Hugo)

For the banished ones, of stubborn resistance,
France is far off.  The tomb is near.
But don’t worry, Prince.  Enjoy your existence.
In the Bois de Boulogne, chase deer,
chase women in the theatre....

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Caravaggio:  A Study of Man Bathing

                     "Amor Vincit Omnia 
    ...

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August in Athens is always confusing
I spent the evening looking at a white wall the moon had lit up,
waiting for the movie to start.
Staggered into a church where bearded priests handed out bags 
of yesterday’s...

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Your lifestyle is vibrant and restless
and from tiny towns to big cities
your search for human images
to paint very realistic faces!

And while you don't have the unique touch
of a Davinci or of a Caravaggio: you do...

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Caravaggio

  
A painting of Caravaggio has been hanging on a wall
in a modest house when it was discovered, it was painted by the greatest
Painter of all time.
I gladdened my heart. I´m a great admirer...

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Your lifestyle is vibrant and restless
and from tiny towns to big cities:
your search for human images
to paint perfect, lifelike faces!

And while you don't have the unique touch
of a Davinci or of a Caravaggio: you do...

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As you stand there before me,
And I try not to stare,
And I wonder if you see me,
As I see you standing there,

Those lustrous locks of flax brown hair,
Cascading in curls like a waterfalls descent,
Framing your...

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Icarus climbs to spite the sun;
marveling now at his own reaches
daring leer for daunting heights he
spat in the face of God

On a cave wall and in the cathedrals
pigment proof that myth is miracle--
masters of their...

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