Long Manet Poems

"Burnt Aqua"



I can taste the sun
on my tongue
it spills down 
my throat
like burnt aqua
healing the beating frisson

I am ebony inside
shading in my shadow world
some somnolent soul
waking from slumber’s dream dance 
a small death in life...

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1.    John Desmond Patrick Keegan
2.    Alfred, Lord Tennyson 
3.    Sally Aline Mae Beller
4.    Charles Edward A. Berry
5.    Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce...

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It raised more than eyebrows, to say the least,
when Manet unveiled his masterpiece
Le déjeuner sur l’herbe (Lunch on the Grass)
though the title suggested nothing crass
or provocative, much less scandalous. 
After all, a naked woman was...

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Robin Hood, man in tights
Julius Caesar, might makes right
Alexander, called "the Great"
Sitting Bull, righteous hate
Robert the Bruce, Attila the Hun
Charlemagne, Napoleon

Hear the call of the alpha male!
Warriors leave a bloody trail.

George Washington, man on the...

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Easter is a time where we construe
The beauty of renewal blooming through
Little birds that chirp above the vales
While sweeter ladies peep at passing males

Charming is the humour passing round
Faint scent of Tulips, Daffodils abound
Strolling couples...

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moments
    of
     reflection

silhouettes &
                blurs
detail
disintegrates
  out
of
focus

        shapes
become
fusions
of

colour
      shimmering
impressions melt
into
    memory


 of

 veiled
        movement
              of leaves
whispers
    in

abstract
      illusions

      endless whole
yet
so alive
     facinations
        fixed   light
in
          contemporary
     with imagination
blended
      with
the exquisite
      wrought
     &
transcribed
       views
         naturalistic
 derived
from reality

       ...revealed...

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