Short Chagall Poems

Marc Chagall-
            love stories in paint...

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Life
is a
circus act-
Where animals
dance,
a
world of
fantasy
in whick lovers
fly.

Ekphrasis/tribute to art of Marc Chagall...

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Artist Chagall once said,
harsh and heavy was the colour red;
For Marc,colour,sensations bred-
Blue,so spiritual and male
Yellow,bright,sensual and female....

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He
opened
the window-
in streamed his first
love
with
flowers,
dressed
in white-
she haunted his
art.

An Ekphrasis in lanterne  sequence on Marc Chagall...

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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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Artist Chagall once said,
harsh and heavy was the colour red;
For Marc,colour,sensations bred-
Blue,so spiritual and male
Yellow,bright,sensual and female.

Tribute to Marc Chagall's art...

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repost inspired by my latest contest

Bella

He
opened
the window-
in streamed his first
love
with
flowers,
dressed
in white-
she haunted his
art.

An Ekphrasis in lanterne  sequence on the famous painting by Marc Chagall...

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I am a tree today
to roots,
to heaven.

The mower passed the sickle
like a moon.
What was unnecessary – cut off.
The remains were burnt,
to be clean
as in a picture of Chagall.
Pray for the dead innocent
and for children.

Evening....

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A fantasist 
alive
 upon canvas
surreal
 yet..
so very real 

his love-for her
not 
  concealed
there..
floating 
    for all
to see..
childlike
 innocent

his lady
in white
a wonder..
& delight

a tribute inspired by Chagall’s ‘Lady in White’...

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Love,new love
               floats on air
         thermals of desire
fuel
passion's flight

       off the wall
       out of this world
drifting 
together without
a care

                kissing

missing minutes
become hours
     one dream becomes
another...

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fiddler’s overture
falls on roof ~
Chagall’s surveillance

6/23/2018
Magicicada 13 - Mind and Body

Poet’s Note - A tree fell on my house thus the inspiration for this poem.

Marc Chagall - artist would paint ghostly figures flying in sky and his fiddler on the roof was the inspiration for the movie namesake....

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Love,new love
               floats on air,
         thermals of desire
fuel
passion's flght;
       off the wall,
       out of this world,
drifting 
together without
a care;
                kissing,
missing minutes
become hours,
     one dream becomes
another.

Inspired an image from  
Chagall painting The 
Birthday...

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INFLUENCE OF CHAGALL

Cradle garden faithfully, free her petals. 
 Pluck bouquet and playfully tend her, kiss her.
  Praise her beauty soulfully - stem and fragrance.
                                                  ~ Whirligig love her.

1/16/2019
Sapphic Stanza with a Jux Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Craig Cornish

*Marc Chagall would often paint his wife flying
like a kite or balloon while he held her hand...

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I have learned
to dream again,
dance cloud dances,
wear a dress of sunset red,
thirteen veils of air
that swirl around me.

It is raining flowers-
why
does nobody notice?

I shake a few butterflies from my hair,
smile at the old Chagall,
and fly off to meet you.

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I wrote this poem in German when I had just fallen in love with the man who is now my husband. Translated it into English 30 years later....

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I last-touch
the tiny giggle
of the hand that carelessly lets go
a moment of a horizon-less lifetime.

And she lifts her head
encoppered curly hair
framing the face
that uncle Chagall will want to possess on canvas,
Raphael will woo with the charm of a Reborn man,
Renoir will gently daub in moving light.

I take away the giggle
and delicately arrange a small place
for it to nestle off to sleep
among the most gentle, manly words
I can release from my heart....

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