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Mackintosh Poems

CLERIHEW MACKINTOSH-ES

...Charles&Margaret  husband&wife
led an active artistic life
Together made many a design
of floral motifs so fine

...

Categories: mackintosh, art, word play,
Form: Ekphrasis

British Summer

...The sun was burning hot this morn,
but then it poured with rain,
I dashed inside and found a mac...
the sun came out again!

* mac - short for Mackintosh (raincoat)...

Categories: mackintosh, weather,
Form: Rhyme

Clerihew Mackintosh

...Charles Ennie MacIntosh
architect artist designer oh my gosh
Art secessionist&Nouveau
his versatility still on show...

Categories: mackintosh, art, people,
Form: Clerihew

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Clerihew Mackintosh

...Charles Rennie Macintosh
as an architect was at a loss
So spent time painting garden flowers*
in off-beat colours for hours&hours

*https://www.wikiart.org/en/charles-rennie-mackintosh/flowers...

Categories: mackintosh, art, people,
Form: Clerihew

The Wink

...Mackintosh had a magnetic sister
who's eyes were green Kryptonite.

At age ten seductive Loke
(he of the windmill eyes),
set forest fires
where no fuel burned,
tormented nerves to abuse skin.
...

Categories: mackintosh, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Winter Rain

..."Winter Rain"

The Lady in the grey mackintosh stands stark and somber in the cold, grey
winter rain.

Her body is stiff and still as she waits calmly for the last bus to arrive.

She is holdi...

Categories: mackintosh, city, meaningful, travel, winter,
Form: Carpe Diem

Of Tears and Brolly

...Of Tears And Brolly 

Funny how sad 
     raindrops feel, 
Weather as mad
     as a glockenspiel,
Tinkling on our skin 
     like an overture 
To the sopping grin 
     of a cloud, demure. 
...

Categories: mackintosh, lost love,
Form: Rhyme

Rain Is For Others

...Rain Is For Others 

The village green 
And its linen fellows

Bask in summer's
Dappled yellows, 

Bowling leather 
Onto linseed willows

Beneath the fluffy 
Cotton pillows. 

Children ...

Categories: mackintosh, irony,
Form: Couplet

Colored Designs

...Everytime you discover 
a new black hole;
someone crosses the border
and starts crying.

Thread weaved in and out 
of tapestry. You were nailed 
to the wall, which never 
had any doors.

Wh...

Categories: mackintosh, art,
Form: ABC

Inchcape

...Inchcape

bitter irony in this verse,
inflict on self the inchcape curse,
when ralphy approached the rock,
without his mackintosh,
he'd cut the bell rope  first,
later was defrocked,
and d...

Categories: mackintosh, adventure,
Form: Rhyme

Flasher Mac

...There was an old hooker named Black,
She turned the air blue in Iraq,
In stilettos of ink
And her curlers of pink,
She flashed in her apricot mac.*

*Mackintosh (raincoat)

For Lisa’s Tickle me Pink ...

Categories: mackintosh, people,
Form: Limerick

Something Innate

...Would not stay put with tether cut,
would leave its corrugated hut
to feed on berries and the nut ;
all mackintosh with string waist,
split boot on the open road,
worn leather from the tarmac's ...

Categories: mackintosh, inspirational, life, mystery, nature,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme