The Heat Is Real, Not Renoir
Let sunshine rule news on front page,
But where’s its old dreamy image?
Where those soft strokes of blue,
Ochre, green, purple hue,
Monetisque summer’s old adage?
Mild tone nor yet tenor,
Heat there’s real, not Renoir,
It’s Earth’s revenge or Sunny rage?
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Happenings |08.07.2023| summer
Poet’s note: Time was when summer had an air of romance; time was when Impressionist style
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Categories:
renoir, summer,
Form: Limerick
Boating Party Renoir
conversations caught -
in soft focus impressionist
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Categories:
renoir, art,
Form: Monoku
Renoir Keeps a Mystery
Renoir keeps a little mystery back
does not like to paint faces
rather likes you to imagine them
here are two sisters painted by him
in his signature colors
wow
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Categories:
renoir, art,
Form: Free verse
Bather Arranging Her Hair - With Apologies To Pierre August Renoir
It was a hot Sunday afternoon in Vienna, Missouri…
If I’da been a gentleman, I would a turned my back
When I got to the swimmin’ hole today.
Instead, I hid behind a tree and spied as she undressed;
And Lord, the vision took my breath away.
I knew that she was beautiful from watching her at school;
The auburn scholar
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Categories:
renoir, allegory, art,
Form: Lyric
Renoir Luminary
Renoir touched my heart,
my eyes, my soul, sighing lips —
illumined brushstrokes
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Renoir touché mon cœur,
mes yeux, mon âme, soupirant des lèvres -
coups de pinceau éclairés
10/12/2019
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Categories:
renoir, art,
Form: Senryu
Confessions of a Renoir
Why do you stare so?
I can see you, you know
Appreciation is one thing but really…
I’m just not in the mood today
My back hurts
And
I’m a little hung-over!
I guess I can’t blame you
I am beautiful
And my coloring is luminous
But give a girl a break
I never have
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Categories:
renoir, appreciation, art, beauty, perspective,
Form: Personification