Short Cezanne Poems

Paul Cezanne wasa little obsessed
perhaps a consequence of stress
Painting Mont St Victoire agin&again
as a wy of releasing artistic pain...

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French artist Paul CezanneP
was quite s determined man
he painted again&again Mont Saint Victoire 
almost abstracted but never his bete noir...

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Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Chagall
Inspired by beauty of Paris, home of the Louvre
Mona Lisa and Venus de Milo statue
Paris, city of light, where artists are inspired...

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With
earthly
green and blues,
his blended view
birthed
the
new way-
a bridge from
impressionist
art
to
abstract
expressions-
a father of
all

Ekphrasis 'Mont Sainte-Victoire by Cezanne...

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I placed the islands in my eyes
A steady whistle
Who let him do it
Blood falls again in the sky
The divine things to the spiral nails
One species to be reproduced
A Japanese with a foolish ethnocentrism
Cezanne showed that heaven is perception
It's always simple
Event, it starts from the body...

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Gone is the era of the Renaissance Man
Who delved into Milton, Voltaire and Rosseau
Knew the difference between Cezanne and Gaugin
Could parse a sentence and quote Henry Thoreau

Came Woodstock, he was buried deep in time's sands
Covered over by Joplin and Country Joe...
Social media's dug man's hole even worse
Alexa and Cortana ~ My lips are pursed...

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LANDSCAPES

CAMILLE PISSARO (Tanka)

as with p. cezanne
trees are very important
they are living things
and    more alive than mere plants
occupy important space

the trees all tangled
in one of his winter scenes
form spectral shadows
houses stand in stark relief
just a red roof for comfort


LOVERS (Haiku)

two lovers seated
a corner of the garden
verdant explosion...

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Monet strayed from trees and haystacks on this canvas
kept his signature clouds and barely touching strokes
verdent grass is speckled a lot like Cezanne would do
the muted colors fairly yell Monet to the connoisseur

woman’s shadow is perfection, as is her green umbrella
lifting this admirer’s hazel eyes from top to bottom
was this lady an unrequited love or possibly his mother?
Monet was never one to tell, so no one knows...

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A painter in Le Havre called Eugene
Found the 'outside' mor his scene
Monet quickly became a fan
Claude taking aboard the views of this man-
And so ,Impressionism began

Note:Monet (1840-1926)& Eugene Boudin(met in 1858) Claude labelled a painting in Eugene's 
style 'Impressionism Sunrise'.Scorned by the critics(at first !)Monet & his friends 
Dgas,Cezanne,Renoir et al adopted Monet's title to describe their revolutionary style...

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SIGH SO SKY


Cotton comes to you to quantify softness
Silk seeks you out to see supreme silkiness
A rose rises to you to remember a rosy aroma
A swan swims toward you to see sanctified grace
Cezanne would say you are syncopation and symmetry
Baudelaire would care to bow before your poetic beauty
An eagle eases toward you in the evening to find how to fly like an angel
As I would fly with you were I invited into your sky
      © 2012   copyright PHREEPOETREE……~free cee!~...

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SIGH SO SKY


Cotton comes to you to quantify softness
Silk seeks you out to see supreme silkiness
A rose rises to you to remember a rosy aroma
A swan swims toward you to see sanctified grace
Cezanne would say you are syncopation and symmetry
Baudelaire would care to bow before your poetic beauty
An eagle eases toward you in the evening to find how to fly like an angel
As I would fly with you were I invited into your sky
      © 2012   copyright PHREEPOETREE……~free cee!~...

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