Long Klee Poems

To pick up a line and take it for a stroll.
The essential is within, the mystics say,
but equally important is the outside:
a stunning summer sky, two wind-whipped clouds,
in the intense green background a dazzling yellow...

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The hand crank sounds about right
There's a them, with a master plan
But how much variance is there?
A rotation becoming monotonous
Until there's no hand in sight
Those with feet fixed to the wire
They squawk and twitter, flail...
Taking...

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*** Bucket List ***

   I want to discover the regions that rise
Up from between blades of grass and climb
To alien atmospheres; I want to examine for traces
  Of fingerprints left on guitar...

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Geology and biology are both to me
Confusing studies that are more than weirdly wee
artistic sands of the beach by the sea
speaks to thee, and speaks to me

I like astrology, darling, hungry chickadee
it makes me feel...

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A  stroke
                                ...

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Van Gogh colour https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/a_sty-eye-lised_impression_921575

Pollock expressions  https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/pollock_chances_1145547

Hopper enigma https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/hopper_metaphors_of_silence_1145757

 Pointillism Seurat  https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/symbols_of_sunday_recited_489054

Klee modern haiga https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/once_emerged_from_the_grey_of_night_902905

Lichtenstein https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/shipboard_girl_78036

Macke  https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/mirrors_of_the_soul_recited_475860

Matisse cutouts https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/a_matisse_melange_1146030

Archimboldo surreal https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/soliloquy_143748

Nathaniel Bacon Still life https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/the_cookmaid__still_life_80170...

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While viewing a painting I liked by Paul Klee,
A docent-in-training came over to me.
Can I ask you some questions, if you wouldn’t mind,
About “Old Married Couple,” as she’d been assigned.

I told her the woman appeared...

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Painting with Words

If I were an artist instead of a poet
I’d paint what I knew as others would know it.

I’d be a Renoir and never a Klee
I’d paint what I saw as others would see.

If...

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Valentine’s day chimpanzee has designs on me
I tell him I am taken, and he says “tee hee!”
I show him my initial, the ancient letter C.
He says come and sit down up my knee.

I tell him...

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 Klee set the art world free
in his Once emerged from the grey of night' poetry


Unifying colour & words
An idea never previously heard
An experimental start
With his posey picture art-

Matisse
   brushed
no more..
                scissors
                paper
                glue
the
          colour
          cut-outs
 littered
the floor
     with
         shapes
              anew
so blue

so blue
 of
    osmosis mode
maquettes
   & abstracts
shapely
but
    stark



Once emerged from the grey of night.



...

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