Guess who loved me so much
...Would you like to play a guess game?
What kind of the person would be like
Based on the following verbal comments
Made by people from all walks of life?
"A lousy parent, who had never driven a ...
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Categories:
rego, life, truth, words,
Form: Free verse
the portrait of a woman
...Woman in a painting
When she left it was snowing
she left no snow print
years passed like a stacked wood
waiting for winter
at permanent art exhibition
in a painting by Paula Rego
she was ...
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Categories:
rego, absence, abuse, addiction,
Form: Blank verse
The Fire
...The fire
He stood in the kitchen, drinking a glass of water
looking out of the window, he saw across the fjord on the slopes
to the blue mountain the had snow on top, a farm house burning
bri...
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Categories:
rego, absence, africa, allusion, anger,
Form: Bio
Clerihew Rego
...Artist Paula Rego
possibly not someone you know
She favoured pastels over oil
& feminism was another foil...
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Categories:
rego, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Clerihew Rego
...Portuguese-born Paula Rego
feminist issues her artistic lingo
In a suite of pastel etching
her spotlight did bring...
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Categories:
rego, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Clerihew Rego
...Painter Paula Rego
was Portugese,as you may know
Pastels her particular thing
artist Victor Willing her a wedding ring...
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Categories:
rego, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
The Fear
...7/19/2019
This darkness is all I know,
a widow's wardrobe of funeral clothes.
It hangs curtained under my eyes,
the seed inside me grows allowing the little girl I was to die.
Insomniac slee...
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Categories:
rego, death, fear, god, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
How To Restart
...Lost with our own remarks
How to rego how to restart
And we turn at every corner
Looking for the familiar
But we cut the chord
Nothing to bring us back
To life from heart attack...
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Categories:
rego, 9th grade, absence, america,
Form: Free verse
When Everything Is Too Much
...Everything, all of it, it’s all just too much,
The jobs and tasks on the list,
It’s all become such a burden to carry,
It’s a burden for me to exist,
From day to day, the things to be done,
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Categories:
rego, angst, anxiety, health, people,
Form: Quatrain
The Painting
...The painting
When she left it had been snowing but she
Left no footprints, that is many footprints but not one
I could recognise as belonging to hers.
Years passed like a stable of wood waiting...
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Categories:
rego, absence, age, analogy, anniversary,
Form: Blank verse