Short Magritte Poems

Is
what we
hide within-
linked to what's on
show

Ekphrasis tribute to Rene Magritte...

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Rene Magritte so surrealiste
was also a moralste
His art as a dream
never reveal what they dream...

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We
see things
as they are-
if we shift our
gaze

Ekphrasis after Rene Magritte The Happy Donor...

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Belgian Rene Magritte
whose paintings were so neat
Full of stilled enigmatic
in scenesso idiosyncratic...

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Belgium's Rene Magritte
an enigma in art so discrete
Everyday objects so deadpan
its here surrealism began...

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Poet& patron Edward James
loved to pay surrealist games
He posed& featured for Magritte
proving to be a visual treat...

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Venetian Carlo Crevilli 
a renaissance master,maybe
Compared now to Magritte
his sophisticated follies somewhat a treat...

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reputedly surreal-
but oh,oh so real

Magritte's Cigarette Girl

 my artwork for this caption and numerous others are 
on my Facebook page...

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Renee Magritte,an enigma in a bowler hat
I wonder what we should make of thst
perhaps they are his alter ego
he never said so we'll never know...

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Brussel's surreal Rene Magritte
whose art some  think rather neat
His painting* is a bit of a lark
so often deadpan&stark

*https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_to_Be_Reproduced...

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so
     banal
                yet
deadpan
absurd
             clashing
             symbols
heard
          in 
              the eye
           where
imagery
is
                  all...

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Night
and day-
images
intertwined as
one

Empire of Light by Rene Magritte

http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%
3A3692&page_number=6&template_id=1&sort_order=1...

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With tricks and puns
Rene had much fun;
Ever looking for the flip side..
The side we never see
Magritte shows us..what might be

Ren Magritte 1898-1967 The Happy Donor

http://arthousereproductions.com/the-happy-donor-p-14519.html?manufacturers_id=635...

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(Based on the painting “The Treachery of Images” by René Magritte)

If you label symbols traitors
Since they’re only indicators
Rather than the actual things they signify,
Then you’re logically unable
To affirm your very label
Is a truth and not a metaphoric lie....

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If you were to laugh at the silly moon,
with your Magritte suggestion -
     "This is not a pipe"
Then, I would laugh too.

Let's write our woes on a piece of linen, and
fold it into itself.  Let's let the aroma crawl up
our bodies and into our flared nostrils, let the
smoke burn our eyes and touch our pallid lips...

If you were to puncture your secret wound,
and paint the gray world with
the only color you know,

then, perhaps I should, too....

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"Deep Waters"


These walls full circle
This room full tide
Deepest Deep Waters
All shades of Blue
Floodgate sheds lives
Empty room 
Vacant garden bed
Dead Womb 
Departure
Called Home
Cut the chord
Reborn



(Lovejoy-Burton/April 2018)










Artwork/Rene Magritte, Deep Waters 1941

"Facades", Philip Glass/Michael Reisman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=109&v=OAYHRQphMb8...

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