Let me tell you what I know
about Piet Mondrian and Mark Rothko,
two painters so rectangular and square,
you'd swear there is no life there,
till you look with a little more precision,
a little bit more care.
Categories:
rothko, art, imagination, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
DRAW CLOSE
colour
your mood
Categories:
rothko, art,
Form: Footle
Abstractionist Mark Rothko
on a grand scale made bright colours glow
Categories:
rothko, art, word play,
Form: Ekphrasis
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 internal landscape
of a haiku when something
fragile and exquisitely beautiful
is caught briefly in its passing
and let go.
It is a sadness that feels
soul deep, reverberates
in the ear beyond
any audible note
from a place that echoes
an emptiness,
the absence of what perhaps
first gave it breath
and let its fragile existence
float free and alone
to wash up on the shores
of this gentle evening
and utter a sigh.
Categories:
rothko, art, loss, sad, sunset,
Form: Free verse
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
Categories:
rothko, art,
Form: Didactic
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
Categories:
rothko, art,
Form: Didactic
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
Categories:
rothko, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
come closer, eyes open wide-
breathe in & dream
Categories:
rothko, art,
Form: Monoku
Step up close
breathe in
&contemplate
Categories:
rothko, art,
Form: Tristich
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
Categories:
rothko, art, people,
Form: Other
Marcus Rothkokowitz you may not know
maybe though as Mark Rothko
famed for his expressive abstract
large&expansive colours... to be exact
Categories:
rothko, art, tribute,
Form: Clerihew
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
shapes
shadows
light bright tones
soften and shade
dreams
meditative
muses
assert
expansive
graduations
of
feelings
erupting
within
emotions
Categories:
rothko, appreciation, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
meditative
muses
assert
expansive
graduations
of coloured
feelings
erupting
within
emotions
intuitive
expression
Categories:
rothko, art
Form: Ekphrasis
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.
Categories:
rothko, allegory,
Form: Bio