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Premium Member The Fish Tale
..."Life being what it is when one dreams of revenge," ... Paul Gauguin Light seasoning dash a chain last resort as zephyr courses an edged clement squeeze ... sun gods and goddesses front ......Read the rest...
Categories: paul gauguin, allusion, analogy, appreciation, change,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Oh, God Knows, So Go Slow, Show No Woe, Doh
... An existential waiting for Godot, when aggravated, drinking much Bordeaux, could even bring Thoreau dismay and woe, to mutilate one’s ear like poor van Gogh. When we despair, impatience......Read the rest...
Categories: paul gauguin, god,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Van Gogh's Yellow House
...Van Gogh's Yellow House On the corner of a cobblestone street, a yellow house stands, and nearby, a bistro to eat in, and a café where friends meet, are illuminated by a sulfur sun under ......Read the rest...
Categories: paul gauguin, art, history, perspective, tribute,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Autumn
...Autumn I looked up to see the day receding from me and it’s falling leaves. *** Note: The 'Alyscamps' is an ancient Roman cemetery founded in the 4th centur......Read the rest...
Categories: paul gauguin, autumn,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Acknowledgements
...1. John Desmond Patrick Keegan 2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 3. Sally Aline Mae Beller 4. Charles Edward A. Berry 5. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce 6. Béla Ferenc Dezso Blaskó 7. Joh......Read the rest...
Categories: paul gauguin, appreciation, dedication, inspiration,
Form: List



Premium Member Van Gogh's Severed Ear
...Van Gogh's Severed Ear I leaf through memories as if pages in my mind, And I can’t find the one I’m searching for. Like a distraught painter much maligned, I can’t find the reason to liv......Read the rest...
Categories: paul gauguin, depression, emotions, mental illness,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Vincent Van Gogh
...Decades of art, and some as oil paintings, whereat, had most work made in just the last two years. Persuades the heart, of similar taste, seems, fair that, Van Gogh's work may be the ......Read the rest...
Categories: paul gauguin, art, character,
Form: Lento
Premium Member Con'Vince' the Man
...PROLOGUE: For what's in a name, That Shakespeare untamed, A lyric gained fame, But when it became, A different ball game, For one who's insane. Yet if twin Yanks say 'Gogh' , 'tis equivale......Read the rest...
Categories: paul gauguin, art, emotions, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tahiti Defined By Tahiti
...The plague knew my infinite hulk in 1769, crept through the Polynesian crystal onto my outstretched archipelago black sands and white sands and volcanoes speaking the purple language, the queen......Read the rest...
Categories: paul gauguin, identity, poetry, self, slavery,
Form: Free verse
The King's Wife - Te Arri Vahine
...The King's Wife - Te Arri Vahine Gauguin’s painting of “The King’s Wife,” immortalized a goddess of Tahiti, Pacific paradise. Mesmerizing mahogany muse memorializing his canvas, she’s a ......Read the rest...
Categories: paul gauguin, art, memorial,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fire In Her Body
...Mid-life street woman from red town she was...I grew up with her under mango trees now softly drooping their shoulders much like hers.. but she, still contoured like a Paul Gauguin urn, ......Read the rest...
Categories: paul gauguin, passion, people,
Form: Free verse
The Starry Night
... Thick swirls of paint coat the blue night sky, Luminescent stars ablaze: yellow white orbs, large in size. Whirling white clouds under the crescent moon, Above the asylum’s window the ......Read the rest...
Categories: paul gauguin, art, historynight, night,
Form: Couplet
A Broken Heart In Arles
... The elemental powers, Of natural scenes to paint. Combined with intangible drama, In a time so far and quaint. Below the hills of Arles, All the landscapes thrive. The hands of Vinc......Read the rest...
Categories: paul gauguin, art, history
Form: Ekphrasis

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