Get Your Premium Membership

Pieter Poems - Poems about Pieter

Not The First Time
...Not the First Time By Cathrin Stuart Late at night, you came home drunk Not the first time I heard you and Mommy talking Not the first time You came and pulled me out of bed by the hair Not......

Continue reading...
Categories: pieter, anxiety, child abuse, family,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Magical Journey
...*“Named after Pieter Both, who was the first Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, Pieter Both is one of the most beautiful mountain peaks in Mauritius.” Mauritiusnow.com>blog>things-to-do>piete......

Continue reading...
Categories: pieter, appreciation, journey, magic, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Where's Icarus Now
...This poem is based upon 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus' by Pieter Bruegel Also inspired by Musée des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden~ No farmer or merchant felt the sound That Icarus made when he ......

Continue reading...
Categories: pieter, art, dark, death, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Two Chained Monkeys Short
...Inspired by Two Chained Monkeys painted in oil on oak board by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in 1562. Viewing the painting will make sense of the poem From a monkeys brain Human unrest is po......

Continue reading...
Categories: pieter, art,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Two Chained Monkeys
...Inspired by Two Chained Monkeys painted in oil on oak board by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in 1562. Viewing the painting will make sense of the poem Delirious are we both From conc......

Continue reading...
Categories: pieter, art,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member Clerihew Claesz
...Begium's Pieter Claesz achieved popularity with great ease With the genre dinner piece his prolific brush did not cease......

Continue reading...
Categories: pieter, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Clerihew Brueghel
...The elder Pieter Brueghel with art tales to tell Smell wa one of his temrs with flowers red yelow& green......

Continue reading...
Categories: pieter, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Clerihew Lastman
...Its said of Pieter Lastman the famous Rembrandt ,a pupil &a big fan Purity of painting,full of gesture* made his influence for sure *https://www.wikiart.org/en/pieter-lastman......

Continue reading...
Categories: pieter, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Clerihew the Bruegels
...Two sons had 'Peasant' Bruegel Pieter 'the elder' nicknamed hell another known as 'younger' with 'h' in his name second son Jan ,also with his art,found fame......

Continue reading...
Categories: pieter, art, brother, family, people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Wedding Kermesse
...Wedding Kermesse Common folk with few wants (Toilers reaping earth’s bounty) Enjoy life’s pleasantries To escape harsh realities Of day-to-day existence Expressed in a ‘Kermesse’...

Continue reading...
Categories: pieter, celebration, culture, dance, wedding,
Form: Ekphrasis
State of the Art Iv
...State of the Art (IV) These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry. Hearthside by Michael R. Burch “When you are old and grey and full of sleep...” — W. ......

Continue reading...
Categories: pieter, art, muse, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Land of Cockaigne
...I once thought I could never be like them, the privileged and rich whose every whim is catered to by underlings like me-- but then last year I won the lottery! The family I’d worked for soon we......

Continue reading...
Categories: pieter, work,
Form: Rhyme
Icarus, Resurrected
...Finally to Burn: Icarus, Resurrected by Michael R. Burch Athena takes me sometimes by the hand and we go levitating through strange Dreamlands where Apollo sleeps in his dark forgetting ......

Continue reading...
Categories: pieter, desire, dream, fantasy, flying,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Hunters In the Snow
...Hunters In The Snow Slowly, the hunters break stride through the snow, Hunched over in failure their heads hung low. Below the hill where villagers at play, Will soon be sad with no food......

Continue reading...
Categories: pieter, art, culture, winter,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Pieter the Pirate- -
...a seaman called Pieter the Pirate talks bla bla bla didn't reacquire it Dutch corsair, stole gold from Spain Origin birth Netherlands Resistance on ship invokes a riot ......

Continue reading...
Categories: pieter, 3rd grade, adventure, betrayal,
Form: Limerick

Related Poems


Book: Reflection on the Important Things