Short Portraiture Poems

PORTRAITURE

profile
with style...

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SELFIE PORTRAITURE

ego
on show...

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William Nicholson & son Ben
both portraiture art men
Bill painted with his eyes
in the moment & no surprise...

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Henri Fantin-Latour
with still life&portraiture
So very conservative in style
friend of the famous for while...

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R  B Kitaj  by initials is known
in art had an individual tone
So personal though
as his 'portraiture' still! show...

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Russian artist Valentin Serov
motivated to paint by love
Portraiture his genre democratique
& especially so politique...

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John F Franks was self-aught
his still life is still well sought
Also known forhis portraiture
two popular genre for sure...

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Nicholas Hillyarde
in portraiture was quite a card
Lines without shadowing his thing
to miniaturists selfies he did bring...

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US artist Chuck Close
pixelated the form he loved most
known for photorealist mosaic guile
creating his unique portraiture style...

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Painer John Singleton  Copley
slow earnest,self-taught you see
From an immigrant so poor
to successwith portraiture*

*https://www.johnsingletoncopley.org/...

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Rembrandt's portraiture made him great wealth 
unfortunately that was not good for his health
He spent unwisely& never could save
ending up sadly,dead,in a poor mans' grave...

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One impression,to another
led this novice to discover
Expressions,abstracts,old and new,
a closer lens helped change my view;

Taste and see 
&curiosity,
     helped  me,to be me.
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Witty Will from London town
With his art acted the clown
They said he could not paint flesh or blood-
His 'Shrimp Girl' disproves this lie
When he gave portraiture a try.

Tribute-William Hogarth 1687-1764


http://www.abcgallery.com/H/hogarth/hogarth32.html...

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PORTRAITURE
an inviting
presence
hovering
  mysterious
freed
from
the past
peculiarly
alive
with
a nearness
beginning
gently
to emerge

the
unfamiliar
at a crossroads
  on the outskirts
arriving
this counterpart
ever changing
without
    knowing

evidently
 recognisable
sonorous
&relaxed...

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glazed 
     faraway faces
 inventive 
    elongated elegance 

legendary 
       like-life 
           portraiture

studies
        in the contemplative
 characterised facsimilies
posed postures 
the attractive 
decorative

memorable 
     unclassifiable 

in
    linear depictions

this is
      what he sees...

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Let me ruminate a minute
            and pose
     for the portraiture

           The sylph
    whisking about me
        in my dreams
       fluttering about

       She kissed me
         on my cheek
    she put a mirror to
            my face

 Yes it was I with auburn
                hair
      with auburn beard

Remember when I focused...

           on that grey...

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May you grace the shores of Eternity
And upon Life's waiting seas 
Cast a dreadnought...

May sunstruck vistas embrace you
As their son and brother
As the beautiful doings of your soul
Surpass that glorious portraiture...

For in your deep and brooding eyes
Is the promise of Tomorrow,
And all the dreams and hopes
Of a thosand generations
Dance within them.

I believe in that...I believe in you....

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We're all an energetic force
maintaining it is the source

We're not made to be weary
reach down wow that's synergy

Our thoughts can wear us down
turn this rumination around

Let that light flow through
our body and mind in view

Tepid temperature is the ticket
as the water flows through a spigot

So wrap your heart around spirituality
and let its flood shape to bilaterally

This is my ethereal prophetic nature
do these things and ride on this portraiture...

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Embracing the countryside 
Made some ecstatic and glee 
But one feature in particular 
Was that old coniferous tree

‘Conifer,’ a Latin word
Means one that bears a cone
But did Nero study the outdoors 
When he was in charge of Rome?

One Emperor’s word against another 
The other, Mother Nature
A lovely scene along the hills
Was better than portraiture

The gentle breeze juxtaposed against 
The needle pinaceae
But with their sheer beauty alone 
Would make one want to stay
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