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Rothko Poems - Poems about Rothko

Premium Member ROTHKO ekphrasis
DRAW CLOSE colour your mood...

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Categories: rothko, art,
Form: Footle
Premium Member MONOKU tribute ROTHKO
Abstractionist Mark Rothko   on a grand scale made bright colours glow...

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Categories: rothko, art, word play,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member An Evening in The Tones of Rothko
The last embers of a sunset sink below a dark horizon almost mirroring a Rothko painting in its somber and weighted tones. A sadness has found a place to settle for the evening and is absorbed by the water and sky. It seems weary, unable to take form in a thought and be given a name, but is more a shade as that which inhabits the...

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Categories: rothko, art, loss, sad, sunset,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member LOOK CLOSELY rothko
LOOK CLOSELY Step up          into the field of colour*   be a part understand me breathe in & dream     fill your eyes 'til I     enter your mood ...

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Categories: rothko, art,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member IMAGINISTA rothko newman wols
undo the zip to open out the view & stroll within become a part to understand art reflect &love what you see no writing or talking.. only looking.. and looking layered       washes of the profound &zany resonate without conscious control in the simple         delicate...

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Categories: rothko, art,
Form: Didactic



Premium Member Four Darks In Red Rothko
I'm not there to see but I know I'd be grabbed even from this distance of 3336 miles I feel it there's an enormity in the words 'Four Darks in Red' immersive already I know this feeling the rose petals that fell from a Valentine's bouquet I was too complacent about the spot of blood on my fingertip that oozes slowly and reminds...

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Categories: rothko, angst, anxiety,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Rothko Analysed
stroll within my picture.. thereby be a part understand me love what you see reflection,makes me whole no writing or talking.. only looking..and looking...

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Categories: rothko, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member White Green Blue Mark Rothko
come closer, eyes open wide- breathe in & dream...

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Categories: rothko, art,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Ekphrasis Snapshot Rothko
Step up close breathe in &contemplate...

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Categories: rothko, art,
Form: Tristich
Premium Member Rothko and All That
ROTHKO&ALL THAT open ornamental   breathtakingly bold floating foreshadowed   a blank canvas across&beyond      out of nothing  an impression expressed   breathe inhale step up close &contemplate  the moment THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two way interplay and often a unique interpretation by the enigma so derived...

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Categories: rothko, art, people,
Form: Other
Premium Member Clerihew Rothko
Marcus Rothkokowitz you may not know maybe though as Mark Rothko famed for his expressive abstract large&expansive colours... to be exact...

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Categories: rothko, art, tribute,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Abstract Me a Rothko
Step up close into the field of colour breathe in and dream colour fills our eyes enters our mood simple blues and reds can transform ...

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Categories: rothko, appreciation, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Aging Sequence Poem Three
How will I be in 10 years, the fir tree asks the maple, the calf asks the cow, the baby splutters out I need to know before they publish the writs. I need to know before my head is presented on a platter to Salome Who will follow me? I need to burn my words onto the lips of the living Sort of words before...

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Categories: rothko, age, anxiety, betrayal, change,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Master Rothko
meditative muses assert expansive graduations of coloured ...

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Categories: rothko, art
Form: Ekphrasis
Rothko
With the undulating girl of my dreams, In my arms. I rock back and forth, the night away, Until the yellow ball bounces on my head, And extracts a foolish smile, from my unwanting lips....

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Categories: rothko, allegory,
Form: Bio

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