Short Portraits Poems

Short Portraits Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Portraits by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Portraits by length and keyword.


Premium Member GESTALT my perception

artistic perceptions to please-
                                                       self-portraits the ultimate tease
art
Form: Monoku


Premium Member Clerhew Courbet

Frenchman Gustave Courbet
in paint loved to have his say
He also adored self-portraits
he&his ego were clearly soulmates
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Ten For

a symmetric eclectic
of film,society politic-
portraits defined
in Andy's graphic line

ten jewish portraits by Warhol
art
Form: Ekphrasis

Paintress

Alluring beauties
But fake portraits to my heart
Looking for your art
Paintress worth adoration
How shall you portray my love
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Clerihew Tissot

Frenchman James Tissot
made fashionable portraits you know
Thin waisted ladies made him tick
brilliant technique so very slick
Form: Clerihew


Premium Member Clerihew Freud

Lucian of the famed Freud family
powerful portraits were his u s p
The human figure made him sing
often pictured sans everything
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member CLERIHEW ecphrasis XXXII

Giacomo Balla a futurist
with 'moving' portraits did persist
Best known or ' Dog on a leash'*
movement,flight& speed never cease
art
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium Member Clerihew Keane

Peggy Hawkins aka Margaret Keane
an artist who lived her dream
Portraits with 'big eyes' her usp
helped her up the 'success' tree
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Jack Frost

Jack Frost paints portraits

   on the winter window panes

     .....graffiti artist




for SKAT's  "SNOW haiku " contest
Form: Haiku

Premium Member SELFIE 8

Freed to be who I really am you see
thus my art folio came to be
Figuratives portraits all spontaneous
my style now extemporaneous
Form: Bio

Premium Member Clerihew Vannucci

Pietro Vannucci aka Peringino
tilted heads his usp 'to go'
Gentle,sentimental perhaps oversweet
his portraits  though were very neat
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Clerihew Archimoldo

The fantastical Guissepe Atchimboldo
used fruit&veg as you might know
The seasons a popular theme
his portraits were not what they seem
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Still Life Quatrain

Warm sunlight,into perspective
percolates upon pensive portraits.
Anecdotes of the bourgois domestique
commissioned to decorate &please
art
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium Member Clerihew Gainsborough

England's Thomas Gainsborough
whose portraits folk could not get enough
He used this genre as an escape
to his first love ie the landscape
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Clerihew Holbein

Hans Holbein in England found fame 
portraits of the famous his game
ingenious illusion became his style
all the rage at court for a while
Form: Clerihew

Rural Thoughts

Shadows deep Hold secrets swarming Within an untold mind Reach for Aspens Painted on portraits Viewed by the Leaping sun

Premium Member Seasons' Portraits

seasons of  life     blush with vibrant, hued portraits… draining winter's grey



Monoku 4: Colours Contest of Silent One
1/3/2-17
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Beneath the Peel

Words are stories to connect the past
Something to hold as we move too fast
Conveying any portraits that you feel
Fruit that is hidden beneath the peel
© ... Gigno  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member SIMPLICITY SERIES poetesses personified

Crapsey Morley Moore & Levertov
each a Inventive female 'poetic toff'
American cinquain,syllabic&open  organic
so let's honour  with their portraits pic
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member LOVELY LADIES SERIES maurin

Radical  engraver Charles Maurin
put the art world in quite a spin
Illustrator for journal Le Temps nouveau
from his brush intimate portraits were to flow
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Portraits In Sound

Play it again Ed,
Elgar's Alice suddenly said;
A simple improvisation
Led to fourteen variartions-
On family,friends and a dog.

Tribute to his Enigma.
Form: Narrative

Don't Open It

Portraits from my past
Call from my doorstep
Shall I ignore it?
Eyes of past veterans
Peer blindly from warped boards
I can no longer enter that room

Premium Member Clerihew Carriera

Rosalba Giovanna Carriera of whom to tell
success with pastels portraits did so well
In art she smashed the glsss ceiling
to all of Europe he talent did bring
Form: Clerihew

Portraits

PORTRAITS

photographic portrayal depicted

perspective platitude inflicted

projective persona conflicted







(Copyright© April 2013-Kim van Breda)
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Emotion Portraits

happy 
          feel lifting gifts arrive shining golden bright days  ...
          striking steel brushes create a pain-hued Monet ...
depressed
Form: Verse

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