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Louvre Poems - Poems about Louvre


Premium Member The Louvre
Beneath strands of citrine dangling in the sky arms glitter on a Moulin Rouge display, neon bulbs flirt with the Arc spinning high its rich tableu, like pastel from Monet. And streets float on floods of traffic yellow unleashing a thousand monarchs on flames, scenting an evening airbrushed by Van Gogh as figures grind on roulette of oiled frames. ...

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Categories: louvre, art, places,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Paris la nuit
The Eiffel Tower stabbed at a midnight as blue as an old Muddy Waters track. From a distance, its lace-iron skeleton looked like a slick and oily spider-web crowned with a glittering neon diamond. (My Grandmère's home is across the street from it). “Do you want to go climb it?” I’d asked Peter (my bf). “Naah,” he’d replied, “too crowded - what’s...

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Categories: louvre, boyfriend, fun, humor, night,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Paris
In winter, nothing gives. The tree holds tightly to its fistful of sky while the wind arranges and rearranges some leaves at the entrance to the Tuileries, always seeking a different disorder. First published in NOON: Journal of the Short Poem, Issue 14, August 2019...

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Categories: louvre, paris,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member All In a Day At the Louvre
Magnetic attraction, enchanting dream of a lifetime - majestic pyramid attracts my eye, mystique draws me in O, your architecture! Pavilions, colonnades; art enclosing art, every square inch deliberately designed, ceilings pour forth scintillating splendor Antiquities from Rome, Egypt, the Orient: trying to wrap my head around art created in Mesopotamia 6,000 years ago Dazed and captivated in your Greek sculpture hall: Bronze beauty,...

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Categories: louvre, art, paris, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member La Gioconda
saw the Mona Lisa once - couldn't stop smiling...

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Categories: louvre, art, smile,
Form: Monoku



Premium Member The Louvre
Woman on the wall inviting one to enter... a mind to explore. © Harry J Horsman 2012...

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Categories: louvre, art,
Form: Senryu

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