I am grateful for the words of Jeanne Moreau
who one might consider a sage:
Age does not protect you from love…she wrote
But love
to some extent
protects you from old age
Art teacher Gustave Moreau
with symbolist painting made a show
Tolerant&intelligent
in biblical work 'heaven sent'
Talented Gustave Moreau
so prolific with many paintings on the go
Erudite & imaginative
a gifted teacher& influence so long lived
I see my brothers exchanging their sadness for accusation
I try to cry but my bitterness eclipses my tears
The love I feel is filtered through lenses of pathology
I am insane
And I keep trying to break out of the asylum
But the other inmates who are stronger and more functional
And yet more insane than me keep blocking the exits,
I am eclipsed by the madness of a generation.
On this Island of Dr. Moreau,
I fear, but through God I hope,
Eclipsed by an invisible love overcoming the madness of a generation,
Eclipsed by placid rest until I am ready to fight again.
Eclipsed like the fallen sun until sunrise.
Dr. Griffin ( The Invisible Man.)
In the fog, I'm a bubble,
Step in tar, I'm in trouble,
but all these, I'll defeat, one by one.
For, unseen in the room,
I can call out their doom,
I'll rule all mankind when I'm done.
Dr. Moreau (The Island of Dr. Moreau.)
He carves hoofs into paws.
He grinds scales into claws.
He remakes all Gods' creation with awe.
Then, a sneer on his lips,
a sharp crack of the whip,
as he demands of them: " What is the Law?"
Dr. Pretorious ( The Bride of Frankenstein.)
No, my pure pupil, instead
of bringing life to the dead,
then let him rampage here and there,
We must make him a mate!
It is our sorry fate
to be a warning to mankind: "Beware!"
This is for all of my friends at Poetry Soup. This might jump start the Halloween season.
I'm going to attempt to do them in segments and hopefully get all of the classic monsters
done this week. Happy Halloween. Sleep ...well?! A Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha...
With
no
object-
subjective
abstracts were born
Ekphrasis tribute to Turner/Moreau/Hugo
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