Rococo Seduction
...O lady, banish my monochrome days
and weave your coppery threads into
a dim red florescence of coyote words;
There you stand draped in beige chiffon
against the Tomistic piety of a striptease s...
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Categories:
rococo, appreciation, happy, sea, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Ekphrasis Defined Rococo
...shimmering surfaces
in elegant intricacies
of recurring frivioities...
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Categories:
rococo, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Clerihew Watteau
...Jean-Antoine Watteau
a champion of rococo
Chalk on tinted paper was his thing
many a face to life did bring...
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Categories:
rococo, art, word play,
Form: Clerihew
Hiku Jul 2
...STILLED SYMBOLS
rococo excess
acutely observed
in transient...
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Categories:
rococo, art,
Form: Haiku
Everybody Knows That Nobody Knows
...EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT NOBODY KNOWS
The Paleolithic Era was a long time ago.
It consisted of a few years in a row.
That's pretty standard as eras go.
I don't know what happened,
but there's on...
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Categories:
rococo, fun, history, humor, parody,
Form: Rhyme
Amadeus - Amade
...Amadeus - Amade
Where! Where to honor you, Amadeus –
In the city of the waltz –
In palaces gilded with golden light
In cathedral dust, forgotten,
In mountain havens
Or their ascending heigh...
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Categories:
rococo, farewell, life, music,
Form: Free verse
The Fortunes of Fortunate Fate
...Some lives seem predestined -
etched with stellar grandeur
upon the crystal cradle of the universe
where solar winds sigh but a lullaby
and infinity is but an inheritance
whilst fortunes of th...
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Categories:
rococo, fate, life, satire, society,
Form: Free verse
The Design of Living
...Appearances aren't everything.
There are feelings too and appearances of feelings which, really, are a direct result of appearances.
Appearances and feelings.
Thank God for design.
Design is Go...
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Categories:
rococo, culture, humor, perspective,
Form: Free verse
At the Club
...To be read in the voice of Thurston Howell, III
from "Gilligan's Island"
At the club
we drop Poetrysoup
premium memberships
like names
on a social calendar
Binky and Nadine
drink more Blood...
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Categories:
rococo, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Mcgillicuddy's Wake
...Two new crutches and two double shots of Bushmills Irish Whiskey enabled Joe Faherty to move from the back seat of Moira Murphy's 1976 Buick into Eagan's Funeral Home for Tim McGillicuddy's wake. At ...
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Categories:
rococo, death of a friend,
Form: Prose
Foxtrot
...For real in keeping it real.
Ornery man in the political arena -
Xylophone players of classical music support is essential.
Trumping it to be the next in the Oval Office.
Rococo effect you strive...
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Categories:
rococo, america, community, culture, environment,
Form: Acrostic
The Perspective of Alabaster Scrooge
...THE PERSPECTIVE OF ALABASTER SCROOGE
In modern English people time, when the world was full of eminent joy, there lived a man of prestige who was totally the opposite of anyone who strives...
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Categories:
rococo, culture, humanity, i am,
Form: Imagism
Deity Be a Baby's Bottle
...Walking past a mini soaked mattress; an empty baby stroller..
By it's side; abandoned this site she seems an open walkway his
Buildings and bricks less her awning; wondering, while their yard dogs
Ba...
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Categories:
rococo, angel, art, autumn, drug,
Form: I do not know?
The Colour Black
...Black is not the colour
that you carry all round
to suit the rococo ground
Black is not just beautiful
it's the haunting memory
the big pool
of rococo fantasy;
It's not the playing ground
for harmo...
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Categories:
rococo, absence,
Form: Free verse
Masked Ball - the Question
...MASKED BALL – THE QUESTION
Maddening the music
In exotic minor key
Those ornate, blinding masks
That cherished memory
Scented the ambiance
Obscurely lit the hall
Rococo baroque and splendid
In peri...
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Categories:
rococo, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
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