Painterly Poems | Examples

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Premium Member POETIC ART EXPERIENCES

POETIC ART EXPERIENCES
reputation 
    bearing
&prepared
in
   hermetic 
principles 
of 
   essays

looking 
 closely
supporting

      detailed
attempts
to 
  vindicate
     arguments
perceptualising
   & emphasing 
developed
     painterly
closeness

Premium Member VIVID SILHOUETTES

VIVID SILHOUETTES
bedraggled
   claustrophobic
    thrillingly
sourced
 imposing
  a resonate
view
in
a 
 definite 
   rampant
 strange 
   compelling 
covering 
to
 radiate 
   animated 
    oozing
 bizarre
& vigorous 
 struggles

   untamed
 inconguous  
 precarious 
 translucent
   compelling 
   study  
so exceptional
with
 potential
  renderings
    subtle 
accomplished
 splendid
& a
  sophisticated 
        painterly  panache
a
 colossal
 gushing
 &combining 
  the
original 
    curious
      naturalistic  
reserve
sublime
 in serene
    expansive 
     creativity

Premium Member In the Dark With No Parchment

The person who makes an app that translates
real-time thoughts into words on a screen 
will change the creative process forever
… for good or ill

On the outside I sit outside in the dark silence
On the inside my bosom is clamorous with
Painterly disconnections of truth and grace 
… I could go on

I could go on if I only had that app
For alas, the sodden night is dark and
I cannot strike my thoughts upon a page
… without parched light

This truth is as literal as it is metaphorical
For in the process of fetching parchment
My mind will corrupt these moments
… these raw moments


The Child Won't Paint

"He won’t paint", cried out the Father
suspecting a flame of genius
in the toddler’s eyes.

The painterly parent bought paper, acrylics,
oils, brushes, chalks, and crayons,
not even a finger painting emerged.

The child steadfastly refused to paint.

The father pleaded:
“For the glory of God why not paint!”

His offspring only turned away
to suck a thumb.

Months past…years.
The child grew to be a sullen teenager.
He began to write poetry – and such woeful,
doleful poetry!
Exclamation marks rose up in heaven
as thick as bamboo forests.

His father read them, his face grew ashen
with a sickly alarm.
The poems spoke of phantasmagorical visions,
hordes of screaming demons, dismembered
herds of hapless humans.
Abysmal were the visions the boy unleashed
from his newly erupted consciousness.
Presentiments flew up from the pages
as horrid as the blood-red dragons of Hades.

Upon reading his son’s latest works
the father exclaimed:
“For God’s sake, NEVER paint!”

He took the young man for long walks in the country,
forced him to join a local soccer team,
suggested a military career,
alas

the boy began to paint.

Premium Member ART APPRAISAL U twinku

JOHN

encaustic

emblems

PIPER

painterly

prints

MUNNINGS

exquisite

equines




TWINKU a double word distich with integral title

Premium Member A TRIO of COUPLETS

chuck close used a painterly style
        photo faces with abstract guile

George Stubbs uniquely fine
   in painting all things equinine

Georgia O' Keefe so novel so new
    flowered in an intimate close-up view


Premium Member ACTION MAN wilhem

Dutch American Wilhem de Kooning
made his gestural actions sing
With intiuitive painterly flux
experiential spontaneity ever the crux

Premium Member A CLERIMERICK exphrasis

So direct was Jackson Pollock
giving the art world quite a shock
Art with no beginning & no end
he established an artistic trend

Pollock impulsively hurled his paint
making spots&splatters quite quaint
Action painting novel& new
arrested moments out of the blue
painterly picturesque it ain't

Jackson opened the 'abstract ' door
laying the canvas on the floor

The creator of 'drip' 'flick' and 'stick'
spontaneity was his artistic trick

Premium Member ABSTRACT DREAMS

ABSTRACT DREAM
An
abstracted blur
in flashbacks
of
yesteryear
 caught
  in a daydream

illusions
symbols
  of childhood
coloured
filled swathes
of painterly
hues
A  private
fantasy
in slow motion
suspended
  in space

OPEN VERSE using spaces&breaks/no grammatical symbols /relying on 'the one breath limitation'/this intuitive cadence permits the 'reader' (reciter)to respond in an interpretative-interplay unique** to the ' happening moment'

Premium Member LYRICISTA burri tapies

spiky
   abstractions
in 
    fantasies

subconscious
  random
incisions
      painterly
expressed

Premium Member POST-PAINTERLY ABSTRACTION

automated
    processes
slotches
  of colour

intensity
 with 
   minimum
          means
brimming
with
   symbols
awakened
breathing
charged
   with context

affinity
   to openess
hovering
 with musicality
in
playful variants

profoundly.  
Impressed
  blurred
        surfaces
in
miniature
     figurations
emphasised
       translations
of
pervasiveness
            break forth
impulsively
               in
                        pictorial
    polophony

   







THIS AN OPEN(organic) VERSE using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' (intuitive cadence)& so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making this enigmatic form a two way interplay & interpretation unique to the moment

Premium Member MALERICHSTA titian rembrandt

MALERICHSTA 
a painterly
   feeling
for form
outlines
  merging
One
  into
    another
a background
face
in
patches
of
  light
     &
       shade

Premium Member ENGRAVISTA durer goya

ENGRAVISTA 
en relief
 intaglio planar
grounded
  spur-like aquinted
grained
 messaging
of defined
    contour
       en register
meshed
  toothed
       burnished
         etched
dry painted
  playground
in stippled
     precision
 stopped out
    imperious
       masks
dense& painterly
serigraphs

Gypsy Skirt Upon Her Exotic Hips

Gypsy skirt,
Upon her exotic hips,
That embraces,
Her painterly,
silhouette,
To carefreely flow,
In the winds of her salsa,
Beauty,,
And caress her rhythms,
From firm sunset gallops,
to sweet repose,

From what shore,
Did she gather your flowers,
Surreal honey,

Her hips are so comfy,
and cozy,
In your loving fibers,
And adept garden waves,
As her hem dreams,
Its flowers,
To dance with her,
Crescendos,
And gaze of her sighs,
Gypsy skirt,
upon her exotic hips,
And dancer thighs,
And the margarita moon dips,
With your duet,
With her honey hair,
Sweet and kind,
As salsa evenings
Reynaldo Casison

Premium Member Mirrors An Ode

I
through the looking glass
suspended in space.
caught in a daydream
blurred by destiny’s tears 
II
a personal portrait
a painting of passion
pulsating with a manicured 
imagined fantasy
III
painterly hues splashed 
upon the patchwork quilt 
of  a soul's reflection
mirrored in the heart

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