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Premium Member Four Darks In Red Rothko
I'm not there to see
but I know I'd be grabbed
even from this distance of 3336 miles
I feel it

there's an enormity in the words
'Four Darks in Red'
immersive already
I know this feeling

the rose petals that fell from...

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Categories: rothko, angst, anxiety,
Form: Ekphrasis



Aging Sequence Poem Three
How will I be in 10 years,
the fir tree asks the maple,
the calf asks the cow,
the baby splutters out


I need to know before they publish
the writs. I need to know 
before my head is presented
on...

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Categories: rothko, age, anxiety, betrayal, change, fear, future, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
Baltic
Was it a reproduction
Of a Rothko in a book resting on his lap,
A swathe of black sky over 
A grey sea, perhaps, 
That triggered it.
He recalled pictures of
Brutalist concrete bunkers and silos,
Sinister dark steel ramps,
That...

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© Desi Gall  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rothko, beauty, conflict, dream, environment, girlfriend, imagery, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Evening in The Tones of Rothko
The last embers of a sunset
sink below a dark horizon
almost mirroring a Rothko
painting in its somber
and weighted tones.
A sadness has found
a place to settle 
for the evening

and is absorbed 
by the water and sky.
It seems...

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Categories: rothko, art, loss, sad, sunset,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rothko and All That
ROTHKO&ALL THAT
open
ornamental
  breathtakingly bold

floating
foreshadowed
  a blank canvas
across&beyond
     out of nothing
 an impression
expressed
  breathe inhale
step up close
&contemplate
 the moment

THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two...

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Categories: rothko, art, people,
Form: Other




Book: Reflection on the Important Things