I Cannot Paint Your Eyes
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"When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes*" ~ til then you wear a disguise
* Amedeo Modigliani ~ Italian painter and sculptor
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Categories:
modigliani, relationship,
Form: Monoku
le livre bleu
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“le livre bleu”
Terabytes.
lonely poets, writers,
musicians and artists play here,
they wear masks that cover
vermillion dripping smiles
over sharp little wolverine te...
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Categories:
modigliani, muse,
Form: Free verse
Modigliani Morning
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"Modigliani Morning"
her external motor, brash,
she was more New York
than Paris, but then,
Rome was inside her
speaking words
passionately
like Modigliani
(LadyLa...
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Categories:
modigliani, muse,
Form: Romanticism
Her Ever Changing Moods, the Rapture Reprising
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“Her Ever Changing Moods, the Rapture Reprising”
Lavender seduces symmetry
in her ever changing moods
slips into something more comfortable
a swollen tangerine sky
m...
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Categories:
modigliani, muse,
Form: Romanticism
Amedeo Modigliani
...stretch artist, A. Modigliani amplifies
sketching curvilinear bodies, weak eyes
his far-fetching figures still mystify us
despite his premature death to meningitis.
May 10, 2022...
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Categories:
modigliani, 11th grade, art,
Form: Clerihew
Clerihew Modigliani
...Modigliani a brief life but intense
TB was to be his prophetic sense
Death coming to him at thirty-five
his giftings dead&no more alive...
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Categories:
modigliani, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Heart
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"Heart"
Deep fissures formed
in the cracks of
the nowhere place
where time leeched
bleeding claret
through the green
veined blues
protean bit by bit
the flesh ...
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Categories:
modigliani, muse,
Form: Free verse
Clerihew Modi
...Amedo Modigliani interpreter of neck&face
painted&sculpted with good grace
On his death wife Jeanne lost all hope
jumped from a window,for she could not cope...
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Categories:
modigliani, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Clerihew Modigliani
...Modigliani had a unique style
simple & characterised without guile
an oval face and elongated neck *
peculiar & sans a reality check
*http://www.amedeomodigliani.net/portrait-of-jeanne-hebutern...
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Categories:
modigliani, art, people, word play,
Form: Clerihew
Where Is the Lover
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“Where is the Lover?”
Where is your Lover?
He is in your smile
where he kissed you
when you were fast asleep
bodies pressed into
burning hea...
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Categories:
modigliani, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Sugar Land
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"Sugar Land"
Nine chains linked
Six silver sextants measure
their distance to Styx
Two hands unwritten
hold the Bee Keys tight
in a gu...
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Categories:
modigliani, freedom, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Purgatory Is a Poem
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"Purgatory is a Poem"
Words are the pieces
in a game we play
shadow and light
hidden from day
poets are nocturnal
in nature, stasis,
keen...
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Categories:
modigliani, art, home, imagery, psychological,
Form: Romanticism
A Love Story
...Her beauty will be known for all the ages,
Deserving of its story in these pages.
A fathomless flame in eternity rages.
A rhapsody is her name sung by Angels.
Silken hair matching the suns gold...
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Categories:
modigliani, beauty, black love, dark,
Form: Lyric
Triomphant
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"Triomphant"
Mea Culpa
Latin two words
a wrong turn
move forwards
Lux...
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Categories:
modigliani, dark, destiny, journey, life,
Form: Free verse
The Golden Chord
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"The Golden Chord"
I have stories
caterwauling
to be told,
I will caste them out there
no matter how bold.
They will not drown,
they’ll survive
soaked to the bone,
transfigured ...
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Categories:
modigliani, absence, faith, home, love,
Form: Free verse
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