Long Matisse Poems

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Tonight the act of naming fell through the floor.
We speak permeable solids inflect’d by light.
Things move indistinctly: a pine palette floats
momentarily from semi truck’s bed, crosses
its body with windshield; ovidian shift from a
Forest to an...

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OPEN

Each
      chiselled
                     line
enamel
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Cuz existence among Homo sapiens 
extremely intolerable prospect
particularly sharing planet 
with most violent species
courtesy hoodlums wielding
deadly firearms methodically gun down
men, women and children
ratcheting grim milestone
countless dead civilians linkedin 
with hazards of war zone. 

Upon surrendering...

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Répéter Depuis le Début 
The Pink Studio, by Henri Matisse, 1911.

Perception fuses like melted rose quartz,
fuses on the lens of Matisse’s puzzled eyes
like the naiveté of childhood returned to age. 
Melted images rose in two...

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Pt 1
He represents his set, with 
Every breath he draws,
He makes color his priority,
Matisse with machine gun,
Splurging Rothko’s’ vengeance 
On the blue bodies of Americas renegades.
A Blood, from Compton
The roar of stolen 
Car engines, echoes...

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My girlfriend is not a poet in  the way that most people mean. 
She is a collector of rare and valuable information. Today,

she told me about cats & the color of their coats. We...

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Upon surrendering this self
hypnotized faux yes ("FAKE") Earthing,
I noticed nothing amiss
(which temporary state of transcendent bliss
twice daily meditation strives to attain),
ah...before you dismiss
a non "FAKE" claim lemme juiced

apprise ye with a very brief hiss
tour re:,...

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-- Re:  Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Rue de Fleurus #27, Paris --

What would Gertrude. What, Gertrude.What, Gertie?Have thought.Have thought what thought?Thought thought driving,forward,remorselessly.Remorseless Remorse? Forward.Never reverse;no reverse.No.No remorse.
Remorseless,spurning reverse,seated.High!Seated high in Auntie.Then...

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I love art museums with any kind of art…big or small.
I love to see the abstracts, the portraits, the landscapes hanging on the wall.

I suppose that’s why I love nature so much…
It’s also filled with...

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That's not MY elephant!
A spiteful conceited elephant that ran away from the circus
MY elephant provides copies of the Bill Of Rights to all 2nd graders in Macon County
Considers fund-raising possibilities of selling elephant ears at...

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There goes the question man.  
See how he walks?
Deliberate, and not like others
...not at all.
His lust, unlike our own,
is for the shadows right and sinister;
they play a different melody
for him.  They seem
to sing...

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We used to go to museums – 
	frequently – 
There were favorite artists:
	Picasso
		Matisse
			Giacometti (especially Giacometti)
	Henry Moore (never passed up a Henry Moore)
		deKooning
			Calder
	Oldenburg
Oh, yes, and Francis Bacon		
		Lucien Freud 
			and Georgia O'Keefe

I could go on, 
	but you...

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*Image of Winslow Homer's 'The Gulf Stream' provided by, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

TrueheARTedness
Poetic Form: Rhyme

Neath lolls the abyss, some monster shifts, ontop heaves mammoth swells --
ship wane toy'ishly, rocked side to side, amidst the...

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Look you for Matisse's Daughter?
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The cat glides paw in the water.
It is glaring at three goldfish.
Jolly tulips are on left side.
The bowl with fish is on a dish.

Gawp at colors so bright in frame...
The cat...

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To enjoy an upstart is quite easy in art,
You just have to let go, and enjoy their mistakes!
Is it foolish to scheme, does a snail even dream?
Does a lightning bug know, that a spark's all...

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Do we come upon a time 
in life,
only to find ourselves, again,
drifting, in and out?

And then, perhaps, find a door...
that may have been there
all the while...
in the midst, thereof?

And do we contemplate some power,
greater than...

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Who would ignore a giraffe?
Place it off-centre and 
perhaps I would, on a particularly grey day
where I was all but disappearing myself

"Please point it out to me," I might say,
all the colour returning to my...

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At the museum, with wall to wall art,
My choices were varied and vast.
I saw an exhibit with works of Matisse
And checked out some statues I passed.

But then I was drawn to a strumming guitar
And a...

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MADAME MATISSE 1
green with envy
a master's wife-
portrait-not still life
MARGUERITE 2
oh marguerite
oh so sweet
in pretty dress,so neat
HAIR 3 
la chevelure-
locks in shocks
matisse,ma cher
LORETTE 4
lorette,ma petite
so sad,so sweet
THE SISTER 5
one of three,enfamille
her gaze,engages,we
AN ODALISQUE 6
curve and shape,for...

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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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I don't know where I tangle to
But I know that I emerge 
I'm all the senses you'd pander to
From stillness to full surge 
When fronds sway breezily I'm there
Yet vines encroach my throat I fear
Is...

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Albert Barnes, who grew up poor,
Became extremely rich
And had the means to buy some art,
Which satisfied an itch.

He bought Cezannes, Renoirs, Monets,
Picassos and Matisse
And mounted all upon his walls
As numbers did increase.

He wrote a will...

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stand where you want to
you'll be drawn in
picture yourself
choose a spot
the joy of life is to 
       undulate with freedom with others to 
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So exquisite Claude Monet
colour filled never gray
A nebulous impression
from each plein-air session

Arthritis  afflicted H Matisse 
but his art he did not cease
He switched to coloured cutouts
to give his reputation more clout


Abstract artist Mark Tobey
loved his calligraphy
White writing was a theme
in later years to come onstream

 Jackson Pollock loved artistic drips 
a form most of us can get-a-grip
Arrested moments one-by-one
careful don't let them run

 Strasbourg's Hans (or Jean) Arp 
with random art was quite sharp
Everything was made by chance
why not give his art a glance

Troubled soul Vincent van Gogh
yes,the one with the ear cut off
Painted sunflowers so yellow
was in fact a talented fellow

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