Short Figurative Poems

a figurative game
of a colour field
in flamds&flashes...

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Francis Bacon was self-taught
so images did distort
Known as a figurative
in the mind his image live...

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"See for yourself"

It is obvious that -if  only- we were to list the functions of the eyes,
we would need a lot of time to get to see....

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Erich Heckel  an artist & saxone
painted with subtle earthly tones
Figurative formulae his aim ,you know
tectonics in red ,all made to flow...

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Victor Pasmore ursued art part-time 
it suited circumstance just fine
From the figurative to the abstract
his sensitive line are an actual fact...

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Your beauty perfect
through arid existence I chase
in the flashes of mirage.
The desert dew pearls
on lone sands of dune I draw
with the sinking sun's spectrum. 
...

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GRAPHICS
figurative
  contractions
initiated

  deliberations
in
prized
ideals
sharp
stunning
&effortlessly
 emblemmatic

a
 magical
legacy
of
liberated
  wonder...

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The Austrian Egon Schiele was a caution
a painter of geture&figurative distortion*
The human anatomy he loved to depict
sadly dyng young in '18 flu epidemic

*https://www.wikiart.org/en/egon-schiele...

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figurative 
           symbols,
pictorial
         textures
grafted:the
to complement
the
     elegiac 
             narrative
with
       gestures 
         of meaning
to integrate
       with desire...

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Here, but not touched.
Waiting...
for none but another ending.
Figurative pages are flexed, flattened
and shadows remain ungrasped.
Breath is unready for impact.
Staring at a stationary page marker stone,
I observe the outcome....

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MOSAICS

multicoloured
in
different hues
spotlit
  visible
elusive
a
little mysterious

passionate
insight
 is
enigmatic
&
cryptic
&
figurative

yet
frenetic
to give
 the impression
of
contemporary
enchantment...

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sensitive
          extensive
    meditative
the rituals
     become styles

microcosm of
       the interwoven

threads 
      in a labyrinth
of
  uncertainty
    of the non figurative

transparency
           distilled
in the
         poetic...

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Figurative Eyes

Trees waltz as wind storms pass them by
in words of verse by poets that sigh
to see the world with beauty and grace
not just a plain, old ordinary place.

6/8/18 

aabb

When a fourth line helps it to rhyme!  Sponsored by Silent One...

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I want to taste her.
Not anyone specifically,
I just crave to know 
what it all could really mean.
I would fall for her. Knock down these Berlin sized walls I have up. But my world sucks because Her is just a figurative way of discribing something that may never come....

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Beautiful, shed enough light unto you, afore I ever knew, and now, we both know....
Raised in a figurative cage, I am this somewhat, ruff act ? Twas made that way; just for you ?
Tell me, whom can deny this truth ? My entire life has been, crafted; for this very moment, in time....

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This mind looks for a picture,
thinking of mental image
as well as the deep structure
of figurative language.






Note: This form is called Tanaga, a traditional short Filipino poem which is only a quatrain, having 7 syllables in each line. The rhyming schemes may be aaaa, aabb, abab or abba....

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Secluded in  the last visages
millenium wine washed down by punters
Pinch pockets stare sideways
Spot like eyes
being close with lilly eyed iwallets
A figurative disguise turning blase
The servant drums dance
Harlequins of night mass parade
winding seawards
worshiping the pipers
who have to be paid...

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objectivity
      evidences actions spoken
      feelings  thoughts
figurative textures
                          symbols
          faded metaphors
                         hinged
intrusions graduated
in casual
            tones
              elaboratly 
spoken 
     prosaically    layered

   assimulated
     slowly...

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MULTIPLICITY
a
combined
innocence
 something
beautiful
 oft traumatic
yet
 figurative
to
represent
a
freewheeling
spirit
charmingly
gentle
yet
with
an unworldly
quality
collides
to portend

in
 the blatant
 isolation
a thesis
 drifting
a  happening
reaping
benefits
 a
 setting
continued
 throughout
then
evaporated...

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isolated
 conduits 
   of frontal forms 

poses portrayed
      figurative 
          fantasies
              finessed

obsessed introspectives
intense
         expressive lines
    in focussed reflections
 silhouetted studies 
              fleshed out

 sensual depictions
  
       emphasised 
in
precocious
pictorial perceptions...

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International terrorists in a figurative sense and growing numb to this slaughter...
Bewitched they believe that there is no god aside thee ? Fixations, fashioned figurines 
Chanting off with their heads the middle class row his Cu Clux Plan from her Southern poll ?
Shouting someone get love's gun out of Bobbie Woe's hand; Guildman Saxe, these be foreign sands....

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Easter of the Resurrection of Christ

Protestants were supposedly persecuted
for their faith, 
so they left England.
In America they annihilated Natives

and in their protest
they abandoned Christ 
for Rabbit and the egg hunt,
as if rabbits were egg-laying.

They are falsifying the history
and falsifying reality,
distorting figurative language
and rhetorical figures....

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Poetry a figurative sense is one in which words or expressions acquire meanings that depend on their context of use. The literal sense is used to give words the objective meaning they have...
Poetry therefore exists when it exists
figure of speech... metaphor, metonymy etc. SO POETRY IS NOT WRITTEN TO AGREE OR NOT,IS to READ, understand, APPRECIATE... READ, READ a lot OF POETRY !...

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PORTRAITS
composite
  unanimous
elated
& dumbfounded
overwhelmed
completely
surreal
yet
exciting
 conveying
 a sense
 of
performative
persona

 introverted
 &
 private
 together
that  subvert
convention
distorted
representations
 imagined vaguely
fragmented
translucent
& figurative

an atmosphere
 of
movement
&full of
 storyline
 accompanying
  the
skewed...

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storms happen
happenstance stomps
selfish selfies inherit the wind
windmills become grist for the mill

Armageddon trending now
Utopia is Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
go figure (& lie about the figures)
too many figurative flies in the proverbial soup

words float like moths to the factoid
sting like a bumbling bezoar
fly like a flock of birdbrains
put that in your pipe & tweet it...

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