Short Rodin Poems

Once
word-blind-
in stone he
sealed fame with a
kiss....

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Rodin so expresive
tactile & creative
in The Old Courtesan* en plein air
his  'intense truth' laid ' bare'...

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Sculptor Auguste Rodin
with two hands* once did begin
Placing then in parallel
an allegory therein does dwel!

...

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Six
heroes
on a plinth-
a cast with large
hands

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Burghers_of_Calais  
by Rodin...

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Siblings Gwen&Augustus
about whom the art world made a fuss
She the mistress of Rodin
he bohemian who did not fit in...

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Seriex sculptor Auguste Rodin
knew how bring grin
So very prolific he did not cease
the thinker being his most famous piece...

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As his menage a trois shows
For Rodin,Camille & his Rose
And the old adage goes-
Two's company,they say
But three was a crowd,everyday....

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Arty stuff No 2

Rodin was chipping away,
At a big lump of marble one day,
He was sculpting a bloke,
But with one dodgy stroke,
The wobbly bits all flew away!...

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Blindly chased success
had to stop and make a choice---
Life with a purpose






28 June 2015
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Sponsor: Marvin Celestial



*Image of The Thinker, a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin...

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                      Rodin
                      Rodin
         Dante inspired that kiss

               The truth be told
             half this earth has
                felt those soft
                       yet
               lamentable lips...

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Marble
Raw bronze slab
Imparts Rodin:
Man survives within himself
Thinking and remembering -
Such as, a vast towering dome
Devoid of creation and life
Praying for salvation
Genesis breeds Genesis -
Muted seraphim humbly inspire
Michelangelo’s genius to unconsciously 
Imitate past recall through thought




Inspiration:
Rodin's:The Thinker
Michaelangelo's:The Sistine Chapel...

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I gasp

Morning is cold.
I outstretch my arm in empty reach.
I gasp.

I listen for the miracle: the shower
door closing behind him.
I gasp.
 
I wait for my toweled Rodin and
the whistling kettle.
I gasp.

I’m not sure if can get up today.
My breath returns and I robotically rise,
Gasping. 


Kathryn M. Collins©
revised Nov. 15, 2013
(would have been our 44th anniversary)...

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poses for posterity
    the human form
          in creative postures
 displaying 
     the beauty that resides 
in us all
 from finger
    toe to torso

 a visual close-up 
life-size 
       sensuous &  tactile 

a journey
    for the eyes
 to dwell 
      & meditate
 consider & respond
  to an invitation
to kiss  to think 

 to applaud 
     the inherent 
 sculptured
     reality...

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she is
the moon
she was
just here
she was

leaving dew
putting her
panties 
back
on

as the daily 
chase of 
the sun 
makes it
hard for me

to catch 
her or 
even
just 
get 

a glimpse
a chance
perchance
that some
happenstance

might come
along and i
get to be
more
than

a dog
howling
at her fullness
but block the sun's
sight so he doesn't see

her
and
i in a
lunar
eclipse

kiss...

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Inspired by:

She Who Once Was the
Helmet Maker’s Beautiful Wife.

Sculpture by Auguste Rodin


nude glory, she of uncrannied pelt,
stroked by many, might not know
she’ll sit erelong on stone as 
wrinkled bronze
waiting yet to be touched.  

muscle melts from bone,
hair, once auburn-splashed on brow,
turns colorless now and dull.  Who sees
the girl with rose wine cheeks, the
prime of a daughter turned old?


Kathryn McLoughlin Collins
April 14, 2013...

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