Short Labelled Poems

labelled right or wrong
concepts passed down as the truth
mind your own business...

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Henry Munyaradzi
a sculptor from Zimbabwe
Labelled shona wood for a while
contemporary in genre&style...

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Dresden's Max Pechstein
a Die Bruckean for a time
Labelled the Giotti of his day
with lyrical topics had his way...

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Henry Taylor-Lamb of renown
in a group labelled Camden Town
Noted for his portraits unusual
elongated& so 'personel'...

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George Puttenham with comical style
wrote verse in dactyl
Homer labelled it polyhlosbosiou
'a many sounding sea' to you&me...

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an existence of time...
perceived as -
an existential phenomena...
be labelled as -
an irrationality of change...


stan sand...

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The visual happenings of Ives Klein
are particularly  difficult to define 
With blue now labelled IKB
&female body-brush creativity...

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Jane could ride
Jane could shoot and fire,
Dressing in men's attire,
Through her glass ceiling broke free-
Labelled..then..a calamity....

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Long grass,tall nettles,no mower
 
Narrative form I've labelled 'novel' after Hemingway's 
story in 6 words-'For sale,baby shoes,never worn...

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Proverb 
Time cannot be put in a box and labelled 
 What we did in the past manifests itself now
What we do now will be visible in the future....

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Trust is only a word
after all, why do we trust?
When at the other end
of a broken one,
one is labelled a fool a simpleton!

© Harry J Horsman 2012...

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He will open The book...soon
 
Narrative form I've labelled 'novel' after Hemingway's (attributed)
story in 6 words-
'For sale,baby shoes,never worn'...

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There once was a zombie named Daisy
Who thought eating brains was quite crazy
She slacked on the job
Was labelled a slob
Then outcast for being so lazy...

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Emergence
Alfresco
Prison
Labelled
Numbered
Indoctrinated
Jobbed
Subliminally
Terrorised
Politically
Corrected
Chemically
Fed
Laboratory
Medicated
Damned...

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24 C

24 C. You joined on  a Wednesday.
24 C. That’s how you were labelled.

24 C. Beloved and awaited.
24 C. You make me elated.

24 C. Half her and half me.
24 C. We’ re here for thee....

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he was transgender
small town had no idea
in the sixties

he was bullied 
labelled crazily weird
and with no mother

I saw him in dress
many were laughing at him
I only felt sad...

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Sculptor Louise Bourgeois
of whom spiders webs was a star
Also making textiled fabric heads
labelled 'spun poetry ' many said*

*https://www.moma.org/s/lb/curated_lb/themes/spiders.html...

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light
the key
to what is
labelled as truth
illuminating
darkness of ignorance
revealing clearly what is
amidst all doubt and confusion
the magnificent power of light...

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Depressive Which Was Manic

My kind of depression had been manic;
Already considered doing another antic;
Screeching halt,
And my fault;
Broke big button that they labelled panic.

Jim Horn...

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twins
labelled
misleading
identical
different ideas
diverse ideals
yes they live in the  same house
they do not have the same sister
a liberal and a Republican
no two people are exactly alike...

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May
blossom-
confetti
dancing on the
breeze

NOTE:the single lanterne(also a shape form) is in reality a half American cinquain (the epigram form created by Adelaide Crapsey,thus labelled 'American' )...

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By
a stream
so shallow-
stoops a willow
tree.

NOTE:the single lanterne(also a shape form) is in reality a half American cinquain (the epigram form created by Adelaide Crapsey,thus labelled 'American' )...

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ART SCHOOL
The
secret
of seeing-
knowing how to
see

NOTE:the single lanterne(also a shape form) is in reality a half American cinquain (the epigram form created by Adelaide Crapsey,thus labelled 'American' )...

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The ancient greek Simondes*
was inclined to do as he pleased
So he labelled his painting mute poetry
his ' said 'aloud words' were from memory

*5th century BC. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simonides_of_Ceos...

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Faith is never blind
Faith's someone to trust,
             and to find -
when circumstance must !    


Note: This quatrain form is labelled after and inspired by a verse from George Herbert(1593-
1633) 5:5:3:5...

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