Short Rossetti Poems

Rossetti  remembers a bleak winter...

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Christina Rossetti-
         fame excelled in a retrospective...

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Rossetti Dante Gabriel
as both painter/poet rings a bell
But upon him morbity did sit
witness his 'Orchard Pit'...

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Danr Gabriel Rossetti
sprinkled girls on canvas as confetti
Painting with sensuality
his muses as here* may see
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KLIMT KISS
oozing
osculations

ROSSETTI DG LADIES
femme
fatales

LEIGHTON JUNE
negligeed
temptation...

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RAPHAELISTA 
literary
  stylized
symbols
highly
 elaborated
in
extreme
  detail
of wet white
in
bright
  colours...

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Chrsitina Georgina Rossetti
made by her brother to seem melancholy
But her lyric 'Bleak Mid-winter'
makes a connesieur purr...

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Rosetti forename Dante Gabriel
knew the tenets of PRB so well
His interest though was short-lived
love of his models never did...

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Brother to famous poet Christina Rossetti
no less renown was D G
a member & notable pre-raphaelite
their sweet women,are well worth a sight...

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ALEXA-manna vanna
auburn beauty-
sumptuous clothes,
in a stunning pose

twelve raphaelite cartoons will appear shortly @ 
brotherhoodbabes.blogspot.com...

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The poetess Christina Rossetti,
Once sat at the end of a jetty,
The words wouldn't come,
So she sucked on her thumb,
Then wrote a small ode on spaghetti!!...

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Dark
lady;
skin,pale cream,
pensive in her
dream-
he 
painted
a love that
never could have
been

Ekphrasis on painting of the wife of his friend  by Gabriel Rossetti...

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Betwixt
art and craft-
sweetness & light,
division foregone by
design


Inspired by Arts & Crafts credo
'beautiful but useful' Sussex chair by DG Rossetti

http://www.puritanvalues.co.uk/chairs7.htm...

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Close to the Pre-Raphael sect
All proposals to wed,she did reject;
Her fame excels in retrospect-
A spinster,quiet,pious and chaste
Such talents were,not left to waste.



Tribute to Christina Rossetti...

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CHRISTINA ROSSETTI 'In an Artist Studio'


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The talented Christina Rossetti
wrote carols and much poetry.
Married love elluded her,I'm afraid,
the poor lass dying as a spinster maid

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
a Victorian pre - raphelite ,you see,
with his true love,buried his poetry
but later ....could not let them be....

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Venus
Sibylla
Monna.Lilith-
so pensively,at us
you stare-
looks that
draw us near,
invite us in,
to share your fenimine
boudoir


Ekphrasis -Danre Gabriel Rossetti Luninous Beaties series/phase link below to Lady Lilith


http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/HD/praf/ho_08.162.1.htm...

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti famed for his femme fatales
some of whom were more than just his 'pals'

Frederick Leighton also adept@ art politic&diplomacy
nothwithstanding his  'ladies' portrayed so temptingly

Nathaniel Bacon posed vegetables artistically
alongside a 'model' so erotically...

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where
  soft mosses
             grow
winds
from
every land 
         compact
         &warm
waiting..
    here...
        in rain
        out of the west
honeysuckle
          about
           to
            blossom
in
   my
        heart

FP inspired by Sing Song by Christina Rossetti...

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Dear Lord,dear Lord,be with me still
Holy Spirit,today refill
each word I speak and step I take-
      Is now,Your will

Dear Lord,dear Lord,be with me still
Lord Jesus,show me,now your will
as this disciple,follows your steps-
Come now,refill


form after style of Christina Rossetti- Ash Wednesday...

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Christina Rossetti 'A BETTER RESURRECTION'

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aspen
    trembling
heaven
    upon wing
alights
   to sing
lit
by sparkling
       eyes
casts
shadows
one by one:
     my poverty
     sighed sotly
    and could not
    sleep
such
painful
breath
     void of
     start or stop
     hope and fear
in
  an 
     undertone

part 1FP  inspired by Cristina Rossetti Old world Thicket...

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I.

On the right is Emily Bronte,
Bard of Yorkshire moor—
Her talented, tormented family
Wrote novels which still endure.

II.

On the left’s Christina Rossetti,
Who chastely did refuse
The goblin’s fruit of ecstasy;
Pre-Raphaelite recluse.

III.

In the center’s a filmy mirror,
Dusty-looking glass;
You rub it till it’s clearer
And see a skull-faced lass—
Yourself…at Requiem Mass....

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In a bleak mid-winter
just twenty-five years ago
       a stranger I came to know,
       this peace began to show.
In a bleak mid-winter       
       Jesus I came to know,
some twenty-five years ago,
shalom began to glow.
        Free to be,the real me
        sensitivity to show,
mid-winter, twenty-five years ago     

My favourite carol (by Christina Rossetti),personalised,inspired by Debbie's contest, and after syllabic style of Marianne Moore...

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