Clerihew Fontana
...Agentinian Lucio Fontana
had a limited art formula
He became signficant in middle age
his monochromes were all the rage...
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Categories:
monochromes, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Haiku Variations
...Haiku Variations
by Michael R. Burch
This is a poem composed of haiku-like stanzas:
Variations on the Seasons I
by Michael R. Burch
Lift up your head
dandelion,
hear spring roar!
Ho...
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Categories:
monochromes, autumn, farewell, seasons, snow,
Form: Haiku
Haiku 1
...The Original Sin: Rhyming Haiku!
Haiku
should never rhyme:
it’s a crime!
-Michael R. Burch
The herons stand,
sentry-like, at attention ...
rigid observers of some unknown command.
-Mich...
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Categories:
monochromes, family, heart, love, mother
Form: Haiku
Albums of War
...I saw those men in solemn chain trooping from the line
hand on shoulder, link to link their bandaged eyes gas blind.
The image burned upon my soul, and tied me to their chain
A scene imbued with h...
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Categories:
monochromes, warmen,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Nicotine
...Like an ester, she clings
Silver-tongued yet soaked in
Sepia. A perfume of precarious
Yellows and ambers in hues and
Dazes of a light and melodious
Brown. Mustard gas pigments
Filtering onto ...
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Categories:
monochromes,
Form: Free verse