Short Peopled Poems

detailed narratives-
peopled
en peinture...

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BREUGEL

peopled

pictures

HOGARTH

satirical

scenes

KIRCHNERR

kitsch

crowds

TWINKU a double word distich with integral title...

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On Diego Rodriquez de Silva y please gaze
tp yo&me known now as Velasquez
See hispaintings of peopled space*
courtly ambition fills his face

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

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An endless dream,
Created by me during my life,
Full of peopled worlds,
And created yellows,
But if life was richness,
And forgetfulness emptiness,
What happens when we remember our worst nightmare?...

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Clear, sincere, friendier eyed.
Purer that, star-lit!
Which beauty of love, now dimmed.
Daily and nightly.

The world he once gazed up at.
Child, peopled for it.
All he feels since burns through him.
Hateful thus ugly....

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life is like 
a long cartoon movie clip
not as well done as a Disney

and the universe 
is peopled by poor imitations
of cartoon characters

not as monstrous sad or distressed
as the real cartoon characters on the screen
except for politicians...

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Could the words have come?
Could I have made whole worlds,
peopled with the good, the bad,
and all the happy and all the sad?

Could I have dared to eat a peach,
and boldly painted outside the lines?
What might I have made of my life if
I had only tried to fly without  wings?

But life is always as it wills itself,
forever as it should be, as it must be....

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seductive sensuous
    enigmatic ambiguous
prolific & 
             precocious
breakfast pieces
                 peopled
in 
detail
    pin-sharp
        accuracy
 &
        exquisite 
           expressive  eyes
sublime
     in close-ups
posed

     yet all in the detail

intimate interiors
               interwoven
with 
      riddles in paint...

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BRIDGES

There are those problematically  structured:
Garth Brooks had burning bridges “one by one”,
London’s was always falling down, ruptured,
Paul Simon over troubled water would “lay him down”.

But there are also excellent bridges in no peril:
Like those of  Madison County
Peopled tenderly by Eastwood Clint and Streep  Meryl,
And those in Paris under which the bounty 

Of Edith Piaf would make your dreams come true....

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She, a left-brained leftist.
He, a pretend-monk of the Middle Way.
She aches North,
he rushes South.

The moments traffic clog and smush and crumble
into a jumble of hours...
The island, a respite, from the weary
us apart.  We come together in our
middle place.
To forget erase
the dour the dint the dirt
of the peopled world.
We come together in our
middle place.

She from the Left,
he from the Middle,
and its all

Right....

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Solitude, aloneness, quietude
Replenish the spirit
Calm the soul
Open mind's heart 
Spilling light into darkness
A milky puddling across time

Gather the wildflowers 
To your bosom
Join with kindred folk
Clasp hands
Listen to the echoes

What a mystery solitude 
Peopled with so many voices
Swirling and eddying they 
Reverberate and explode
Cracking open the quietude
Leaving each alone
In the midst of so much activity


KDK 2012, revised 2016...

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Listen to poem:

Into the groove of unthinking action,
file after file of manikins pack in --
beings above see the circular groove
peopled with puppets, all on the move.
Deeper yet they wear the groove down;
manikins' footfalls forever resound.
Of "outside", they now all think no more,
their eyes forever fixed on the floor.
Mechanical movement is all they can know;
movement defines all the life that they show.
The speeds of the dummies vary a bit
as they wear down the floor of the pit....

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