Long Raphaelite Poems

"Pony" 




Taken
Lead
By Whisper, 
Bit 

(LadyLabyrinth / 2020) 







"Old Town Road + Pony Mashup" 
Lil Nas X Ginuwine Pomplamoose
 (Extended Music Video) 
https://youtu.be/OTdSOXUT5lM 




"My fascination with letting 
images repeat and repeat 
- or in film's case...

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"Tightropes of the Three Graces" 

Tightropes
for hanging clothes
on a line 

each piece 
pegged wooden
held between closed fences

misfortune's breeze lifts
sleeves like covers
pointing the way home

books and their pages
for The Davenport dancers 
all's well that ends well...

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Sometimes life gets peculiar,
a picture falls off a wall
when no one’s around;
there’s a knock at the door
but, not a soul, anywhere in sight;
oh sure, there are practical jokers
everywhere but,
when the bizarre happens
right before your eyes,
and...

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Melancholy Girl 
With your Pre-Raphaelite curls
You don't seem quite of this world
Such a strange and a sad-eyed girl
                  ...

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Milias’s Muse

She was an epicurean

To Milias's cynic

She sought pleasure in ordinary 

Things.

Her hair was scarlet

Long with large curves:

A winding labyrinth.

A true delight

For a Pre Raphaelite

 

Milias's vision was to climb up her 

Hair; into the...

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The blooming luster of citrus oil
upon my pine cabinets, tantalizes my senses
and I am transported to the tropics, 
escaping midwinter’s clutches.

The sun-kissed, sterling baubles
adorning each rolling wave’s crest,
are pearlesque raindrops dancing upon the 
eternal sands;...

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Rossetti, master painter - poet.
   His works inspired by the Bible
       and classic literature.
            Oils of...

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(Lizzie Siddall, the Pre-Raphaelite artist's
model, has just married Dante Gabriel
Rossetti ... and now regrets it.)

Why could it not have been agreeable?
What steered me down this unforgiving cleft?
Was this misfortune not foreseeable?
Why can I find no...

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crowded canvasses
  the aim
     sincerity&truth
a certain perfection 
in a fight
      against convention
  to open eyes
      in amazement

poetry depicted
 ...

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Angels in a cloudy sky;
So slowly do they float on by.
My late sister paints them there;
Her way of saying, “don’t despair”.

She was an artist, in mortal life;
Art relieved her stress and strife.
Also, she wrote poetry...

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