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Portraiture Poems - Poems about Portraiture

Life as Art
...Her hair was luminous in the dawn, Waving in a breeze it seemed to orchestrate. And the day surrounded her magnetically As she stood there, entwined with nature- Nature herself, posed in elemen......

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Categories: portraiture, love,
Form: Free verse
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock translations of German poems
...“To Edward Young” by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock translation by Michael R. Burch Die, aged prophet: your crowning work your fulcrum; now tears of joy tremble on angel-lids as heaven extends ......

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Categories: portraiture, angel, death, dream, heaven,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member SELF-PORTRAIT ART ekphrasis
... SELFIE PORTRAITURE ego on show......

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Categories: portraiture, art,
Form: Footle
Premium Member PORTRAITS ekphrasis
... PORTRAITURE profile with style......

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Categories: portraiture, art,
Form: Footle
Face the false starts
...I think I’ll make a portrait With inky words of my soul But false starts get in the way I’m hungry the body says Feed the body, not the soul The soul will pester my body Make......

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Categories: portraiture, poems, poetry, poets, writing,
Form: Free verse



CONIFEROUS TREE
...Embracing the countryside Made some ecstatic and glee But one feature in particular Was that old coniferous tree ‘Conifer,’ a Latin word Means one that bears a cone But did Nero study the ......

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Categories: portraiture, ireland,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member SELF PORTRAITURE art AND me
...One impression,to another led this novice to discover Expressions,abstracts,old and new, a closer lens helped change my view; Taste and see &curiosity, helped me,to be me. ......

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Categories: portraiture, art,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Portraiture a Freed Verse
...PORTRAITURE an inviting presence hovering   mysterious freed from the past peculiarly alive with a nearness beginning gently to emerge the unfamiliar at a crossroads   on the outs......

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Categories: portraiture, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pictured a Freed Verse
...PICTURED apparently in sombre retreat  the literary affirming & celebrates the   portraiture with some overlap  to compare perhaps  contrast & reflect the sensibility  of  space ......

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Categories: portraiture, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Pair of Shoes Van Gogh
...Inspired by the painting 'a pair of shoes' by Van Gogh (link in comments). Van Gogh used old shoes for still life as they were cheaper than flowers and with some similarity to portraiture. ......

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Categories: portraiture, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
The Loving Sound - Collab With Alexis
... I enjoy being in tune with nature, As I sit, I hear such a loving sound. Reminded of God, our legislature. From this small hill, I hear Him all around. Melodies of life flow throu......

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Categories: portraiture, beauty, god, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Loving Sound-Collab
...I enjoy being in tune with nature, As I sit, I hear such a loving sound. Reminded of God, our legislature. From this small hill, I hear him all around. Melodies of life flow through nature's co......

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Categories: portraiture, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Morgue Necropolis
...Laid naked and bare, Dilapidated beyond repair, Deeper within the dark bowels of ruined Ultair, Whose ruler is a Litch, A city rises from a darken phosphorous pitch of shadows and mists of unhal......

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Categories: portraiture, adventure, angst, city, death,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Clerihew Kitaj
...R B Kitaj by initials is known in art had an individual tone So personal though as his 'portraiture' still! show......

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Categories: portraiture, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Cerihew Latour
...Henri Fantin-Latour with still life&portraiture So very conservative in style friend of the famous for while......

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Categories: portraiture, art, people,
Form: Clerihew

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