Short Arty Poems

i carved on the stream 
seated on her mossy edge ---
monkeys were watching
...

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I like to doodle noodles
with my wibbly nibbly pen;
girly, curly whirly, and,
arty farty, too!...

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There was a pickle party
the pickles partied hearty
	wanted to embellish
	danced into a relish
well, aren’t they arty-farty...

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My Uncle Tom was the life of the party
He is creative or so arty (artistic)
He makes us laugh and cry
His art is so beautiful, WHY!...

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Arty stuff No 2

Rodin was chipping away,
At a big lump of marble one day,
He was sculpting a bloke,
But with one dodgy stroke,
The wobbly bits all flew away!...

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Arty stuff No 5

Millet was doing a dance,
As he painted a farm in Provence,
He would turn in a rush
And while holding his brush
Adopt a most classical stance!...

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Arty stuff No 10

That artistic Italian Belinni,
Once ordered a toasted panini,
He was sitting alone,
But he started to moan,
As his sausage was only a weenie!...

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Arty stuff No 4

Gauguin was eating a peach,
While painting a scene on the beach,
A girl who was nude
Thought he looked rather lewd,
So she kept herself way out of reach!!...

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Arty stuff No 8

An artist called Johannes Vermeer,
Was quietly drinking a beer,
A girl with an earring
Said something endearing,
So he smiled and thought "That's an idea!"...

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Art’s doctor prescribed lactulose
Wife Betty’s seen holding her nose
I’m sorry for Arty
The meds make him farty
But Betty is near comatose

03/20/21...

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Arty stuff No 9

An impressionist called Vincent van Gogh
Developed a bit of a cough,
Whilst shaving one morning
He coughed without warning
And THAT'S how he cut his ear off!!...

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Arty stuff No 6

That renaissance-ish artist Raphael,
Was sketching while sat in a gale,
A gust took his pad
Which made him quite sad,
As his subject was Jonahs'  great whale!...

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Arty stuff No 1

An artist called 'Toulose' L'Autrec,
Thought landscapes a pain in the neck,
So he painted in bars,
Drank Absinthe from jars,
Which left him an absolute wreck!!...

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Arty stuff No 7

Raphael's old mate, namely Titian,
Was thinking of taking up fishin',
He was reading a book
About slinging your hook,
Then strode off with his rod on a mission!!...

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Arty stuff No 3

Monet would sit by the lake,
Painting lilies whilst eating a cake,
He dropped crumbs in the water,
Which upset his daughter,
But pleased all the fish and a snake!!...

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G-reeter
A-pplies
R-apturous
Y-early

J-oviality
A-s
M-arvelous
E-xpression
S-tarts

Y-our
A-nnual
P-arty

Topic: Birthday of Gary James C. Yap (February 19) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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The Big Bands of the forties, I loved them all
Glenn Miller, the Dorseys, Arty Shaw and Les Paul
They were so smooth
And quite raucous too
Collected their 78s, I certainly had a ball...

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The Big Bands of the forties, I loved them all
Glenn Miller, the Dorseys, Arty Shaw and Les Paul
They were so smooth
And quite raucous too
Collected their 78s, I certainly had a ball...

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J-oyous
O-ccasion
R-ightfully
I-mplements
C-elebrant's
A-menities

A-s
R-egards
A-nd
R-emembrance
A-re
C-reating
A-nnual
P-arty

Topic: Birthday of Jorica Araracap (March 28) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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We win, we lose.
Make the party, arty, farty.
Lose like a winner.
Win, win, win.
Work it, benjamin.
Franklin work-out.
I live for it.
Smell the tyre, the rubber.
I see what you mean.
Yeah, yeah, going to it.
Living...

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Chapbooks
by design-
arty posters
with illustrations so
sublimeWiliam H Bradley (1868-1962) of US Art Nouveau fame

http://www.willbradley.com

http://www.willbradley.comhttp://www.nga.gov/feature/nouveau/thanks_a.htm...

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curious
           yet
              curiouser
fantasy
            fuelled
           the unreal 
visage
                   surreal
             fish
             fruit
             vegetables
writ
             large...

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News in English, nice sounds in your language!
Dancing with words on a dizzy floor of literature,
Adding an arty dimension to the voice of reason,
Brought to the floor to breathe life into words,
Anxious and addicted to how words really dance....

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Damn, that face looks oddly familiar though a bit
Enigmatic too, somehow I cannot seem to nail it

Just where I met her, maybe in school or in some
Arty hangout, or perhaps way back during a prom.
 
Vaguely recognizable yet, mysteriously intriguing,
Unless she is an outgrowth of my wild imagining....

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(for Nik)


lucky, gracy, raw artifice
natural all the way;

just like a fairy
in the medieval world
natural all the way

nik, purely nikky
aren't you 
natural all the way?

aren't you from an arty universe?
aren't you another mona lisa
natural all the way?

you're just nikky
& natural all the way!...

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