Short Canvass Poems

floating canvass
in a gloomy night
an eyeful


12.22.16...

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War's canvass: pockmarked earth, blood-stained sky
  
   Paint youths white as ghosts -- retch and die...

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Eyes speak
Vims leak
Soul roars
Life soars 
Eyes emit energy in pic brass
As soul vibrates life in still canvass...

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canvass of color
like a slide show changing 
a testimony
of all my trials and heartache
specks of white, healing power......

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By artist's hand, it was lovely crafted
Perfect strokes that it has
A rare beauty of a lass
First to behold on canvass




9.26.08...

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Oh glorious wonder
the unconfined human dreamer,
painting on the canvass of light

The passion of night resurges
at daybreak dance
Ink wells from lovers golden petals
gravity all nonsense...

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they came searching for me
integrating the essence of
tightly packed out bursts
in a rolled canvass
promoting the sweetness of mouth
pasted on the empty walls of
your migrating wants...

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When the morning lark has honed its  silver chirp,
a dream-like canvass floats into a higher octave,
setting passages alight with sun filled prospect as eternity dissolves its outer limbs....

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I'm in no way an artist.
My eyes burning.
But my tears are the paint, 
Lashes the brush,
My bed sheets the canvass.
My eyes burn.
Tears flood.
Mind shut.
While the painting unfolds in front of me. 
A timeline of such.......

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Had an argument with the floor and the floor won
A rematch is scheduled, this time I'll be packing a gun
Not taking any chances
Won't end up on the canvass
Pump some slugs in it's under belly and watch all the fun...

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Blue 
Waves 
usher
ocean dream
enchanting ripples,
whose hypnotic spell oozes charm,
for yellow dawn pearl-eyed first light riser’s inner fog,
stunned by a heavenly turquoise canvass  of tidal moss fleck swoon and swirl gyrations...

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Rays
bend.  Bow
drawn, black sky
swath of color- 
fractured light.  Vivid 
bands, electric hues, broad 
brush strokes drip and run against 
a wet canvass.  Neon glow fading
to pastel shimmer disappearing
gone like a sidewalk painting in the rain....

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Vibrant swirls, searching a canvass of black
Creating a world of colures, 
Taken from a gunnysack…
The mind explores all it observes,
There is no turning back~
Admirations, full of life deserved;
The portrait is complete, all concur,
Now how about that…...

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Vibrant swirls, searching a canvass of black
Creating a world of colures, 
Taken from a gunnysack…
The mind explores all it observes,
There is no turning back~
Admirations, full of life deserved;
The portrait is complete, all concur,
Now how about that…...

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As the falling rain trickles on window
The sound had come back again
In this quiet down room

A canvass created through my window
Tracing heart with my finger
Slowly fades away


Through my window Contest  By  : Nette Onclaud
Cheryl Aldea
January 18, 2014...

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Crouched in an alley
Cold unwelcoming cobblestone
Raindrops keep him half awake
Stayed up all night sipping coffee
Finishing touches to canvass of
Bluebird skies and sailing ships
Those holding umbrellas pass by
Look - and move on through
November's leaded skies......

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Wire of the phone is hanging behind the curtain
Eye sights are confined in fear of snake

Hiss, hiss; the bubbling sounds of rice cooking
The rat is fleeing away in the canvass of fear



March 22, 2023



Write BANTUs Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Suzanne Delaney...

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Dream 
sweet plumes
of turquoise
moonstone canvass 
as purple cloudburst choirs ear worm skylines
or blue-tailed godwits nail scrape rose quartz mounds
jack-o'-lantern
usher peeps
at closed
eyes

Date posted : 9 th October 2020

Contest : Double Tetractys 4

Sponsor : Eve Roper...

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You are my empty page of love 
my double spaced sheet of solid white 
you are my blank canvass 
my heavenly shade of metal alloy 
and I am your Helen of Troy 
This Iliad of love 
contains spark notes of our passion 
No Greek God can ever compare to you 
you 
my warrior of all Time .......

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Complicated reactions to simple actions are merely distractions.
If I don't mask it it's bound to create damage.
lets not go there..
I'm still not sure what happened, there was nothing on the canvass.
You see I've had it with this madness you seek.
Don't mistake this for sadness.
It's anger I imagine....

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Stars twinkling 
at night, doth bring 
warm, fetching  
this surreal passion 

of slithering feet 
doing the quick step
in moon stroke music

Ah, the smell of
lemon rinds and touch 
of wild jasmine
swirling, inside me, yet I’m

too timid, to voice out
like a canvass 
left untouched, by a brush...

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Empty canvass. 

Your periscope
Will never
reach my center. 

Unless I attribute
Your Felix and
such ridiculousness. 

Silly am I?
Well perhaps
It is my unrepairable
Libido now. 

And the elderly 
Weep while I partake
In sinfulness. 

But of course, 
we are of the 
Thirdkind. 

And indeed
A swing-set
Cannot fix this....

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my life, could i chew it out.
so i can forget the cuds of the ghostly,
the deadly and happy,
dome and my home, dad pray i roam,
the inexhaustible labels of it fall,
my name plastered on the wall, think i but none
many took me fun, in my toddled ninny,
all i do is forget the transverse to my God i canvass....

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If I knew Picasso,
I’d say Pablo come and see.
Bring your canvass here,
And capture this beauty. 

I’d ask him as he painted,
The things he’s thinking of.
If painting brought him peace,
As he paints a painted love.

I‘d watch as he stroked,
The canvass from his soul.
It would leave me in awe,
If I knew Picasso....

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