Long Klimt Poems

"FALL"



I wrap
my Autumn world
around you

Calliope turning
raising the 
season’s poetry, 

I am she
returning 

dancing 
with Summer’s 
dying leaves 

Twirling you up into 
my warm golden brown 
symphony

hear me sing, 
whispering notes,
holding keys 

towards you 
you're approachable
reaching...

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Made in Neonazia

Life wrote you and I this poem on a sunny day of watching
penguin’s colonies bathing on the beaches near Cape Town 
A splendid display of harmony of sun ocean and tourist attraction
warm sand...

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as if Monet had planted water lilies in Babylon

          hanging gardens at the heart of a canvas of joy

       ...

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It is amazing how many super important people there are in my hometown!
At almost any intersection, I will be eclipsed by at least 2-3 individuals who are cooler
Than I could ever aspire to think to...

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He was the son of Ernst, an immigrant gold engraver, 
his devoted mother Anna was a gifted musician-
Austrian painter Gustav Klimt was but one of seven children, 
all three talented sons were in constant competition....

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After The Kiss By Gustav Klimt

Tomorrow is not here today
My love, today is our last day. Let us lay 
Together in the cool of night. For one last time 
Let us kiss this wretched pain
Away....

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There will be times
A brilliant sunset
when I will
A microphone 
see something,
The scent of lilacs
smell something,
A roaring fireplace
hear something, 
A starry sky 
taste something,
A full moon 
touch something...
A big snowstorm
reminders of you...
A walk at the seashore...

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"The Three Ages of Woman," painted by
   the noted symbolist named Gustav Klimt;
from Austria, late-nineteenth century
   till early twentieth, he left his mark.

At center, woman with her child held close;
 ...

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"Inside Out"




Blue bird breaks the cage
when brain bleeds wild
not tame, 
into cerebral skies
Angel wings enfold Icarus to sing

Paint my mind with 
your dreams, kaleidoscope colours 
become gold and silver now shimmering,
like Klimt you stroke my...

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I go to the art gallery often ...
          I like it all ... the Renaissance, Gothic, and Baroque period
       and...

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Gustav Klimt adored for his murals and paintings
Turned life in poverty into art of awesome glory
Pioneering erotic paintings depicting female body
Moving boldly to shape pages of his artistic story.

Honored for murals painted in famous public...

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f e e l me 
like sonnets of sunrise
      infused with 
clementine cadence 
as I am the golden essence
in your floral skyline
       a hazel...

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Life and Death in two separated clusters, Klimt draws conflicts.
The serenity of his cycle of life is bright in pure color, he depicts.
A modern dance of death, yet he offers pause in what is inevitably...

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Between the clothes and sharp morning
all golden and shining and radiant
and the downy wrap of solemn evening
all starry and holding and softening
grows the tree of life, the tree we wear
the tree we imagine, the tree...

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as a sequence

Bella
He
opened
the window-
in streamed his first
love
with
flowers,
dressed
in white-
she haunted his
art.
The
eyes show
subjection,
melancholy
and 
a
resigned
acceptance-
yet beauty shines
through.


Ekphrasis lanterne after
Head of a Negro by Watteau
THE WIFE
Of
Mahler,
Gropius
Franz Werfel-
filled life with her
song-
she
gave Klimt
her first kiss-
but like a Strauss
waltz
her
affairs
of the heart--
never lasted
long.
LANTERNE...

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WE MEET ON THE STAIRS

we met
we married
life spent
what’s the story
the story is ours
from beginning to end
not taken for granted
i see how that ends
we embrace
the highs and lows
whether new skin or waterlogged
we enjoy
time together
it is a...

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KLIMT
ah! serenity
such lovely symbolism 
Oh! Goos-tahf
Gustov, won't you paint for me
Oh! Goos-tahf
Your art works style so worthy nouveay
Apart of the Vienna Sessions
Modern day gilded style, with Japanese methods
Puristic dreamer
Austrian painter
Essences of colors on canvas
 KLIMT
ah!...

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oh ...

Gustav, how you pique the senses
          captured passion's plural tenses

lovers twined in percale folds
          caught supine...

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I hurried through the halls of Belvedere
To reach the floor where I could see “The Kiss”
The place I’d find his artwork was so near
I finally came upon it, joyous bliss!

It hung there straight before me,...

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from suffering and pain
that is piped into veins
by the organ-less master
who relentlessly plays

from a congested gutter
of fake themes
hiding in deception
and callous clutter

from distaste of the old
the sick the poor and uninvited

from the self-imposed
silent deaf and...

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"All art is erotic", quote from Gustav Klimt



The Kiss...  Gustav Klimt
Son of a Bohemian gold engraver
Childhood marked by poverty
Influenced by Japanese art
Developed his talent early in life
Created his own style like no other
Took symbolism...

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I could look at this painting
      forever, oh Klimt was a talent!
Lake side with birch trees is where I would like to be,
      beside the...

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"Because you've deepened the conviction in my soul. I am woman.” Ray Burton

Restful repose.
Seemingly without clothes,
Yet adorned with a quilt.
Serene, no concerned guilt.
Appearing to slumber. 
Six women in number,
Or is it just one
In stages til...

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She surrenders her all oranges and apples
To his crimson basket of throbbing warmth
To let her caves dance in a downpour
And cloak her snowflakes in wools of love

They are like two entwined trees
Against an embroidered slice...

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I could look at this painting
      forever, oh Klimt was a talent!
Lake side with birch trees is where I would like to be,
      beside the...

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