Art No Choice Poems

The straight and narrow has no regrets
Though harrowing to never step out of line
To be bound in place or forced onwards 
without awareness of either...

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Vermilion red is my blood
The anger was the mortal weapon

Stubbed, all of me scattered

Hey, at the end of "anger"
Use "l" from "love"
Instead of "r" from...

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In the darkest days of indecision
I lay in my lonesomeness
dazzled by the uncertainties of my desires.

Just then
 I flashed back to the sweetest memory of...

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Jack and his friends, impressed by personalities
wanted to get there and enjoy name and fame
They stood gaping at their accolades and victories
And made gross assumptions...

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Craft me a tiffany
that others may see

Cut out a matisse
for my mantle-piece

Throw me a pollock
to which others will flock

Abstract me a rothko
I can keep on...

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An abstract riddle
Like,wow!
What is it,
is my question?
Ah yes,a scene without
a scene...

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COME CLOSER

was Seurat
making a
point

ART TROUVE

lost&found
upon the
beach

INTERNATIONAL SET


hollywood:
gone with the
wind...

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LIGHT IN SPACE-A SONNET
In Kettles Yard thet kept their art
Helen and Jim were the main part
midst stray objects,sculpture and glass
with pictures ,paintings unsurpassed;
Friend of artists,collectors...

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SHORT LIVED

MAY
FLY
DAY

Note: This visual poetic form (inspired by the work of the conceptual artist Hamish Fulton's (b 1946) landscape 'text-and-image' work 'a seven day walk...

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stranded on the beach
a wash of sand-orange blue-
brushmarks lost from view

colour gives away
in signature vivid hues-
picturesque and new

Boats at Saintes Maries -Van Gogh...

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blocks
of
colour
harmony-
form is the content

fibonacci-after Ellesworth Kelly...

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THE WIFE
Of
Mahler,
Gropius
Franz Werfel-
filled life with her
song-
she
gave Klimt
her first kiss-
but like a Strauss
waltz
her
affairs
of the heart--
never lasted
long.


Ekphrasis lanterne re Alma Mahler...

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i' m stepping on
the gas

i'm leaving the past

never see my
ex again

if the sun sets
and i haven't let
yet

i gonna burn
this whole
i said
gonna burn
this whole
town down

i said...

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You tear yourself apart to fit the syllables.
You comb through Rhyme Zone for that certain word.
You think that now you have it all together.
But rat...

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You May Yet Make Your Blessed Choice

As old man woke, empty room spoke
silence cried, you have yet to die,
mortal flesh is your chaffing yoke
deepest regret...

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