Short Sistine Poems

outstretched in space-
                                a fingertip touch of  God's grace...

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Candles flickered faint
Sistine Chapel he did paint
Though he was no saint

By Robb A. Kopp
All Rights Reserved © MMX...

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the sistine chapel
reflected
in a pond



submitted on June 6, 2018 for JUNE 2018 PREMIERE CONTEST sponsored by BRIAN STRAND...

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The Sistine Chapel

Thy ceiling reaches to touch eyes
where Michelangelo and God rise.


© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 22, 2010

Poetic form: Crysalline...

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Michelangelo was an absolute genius
Before the word genius was even dreamed of
The Sistine Chapel 
Hard to grapple
Not conceived even with today's greatness...

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Trapeze artists paint lofty subjects
Some given to Fate's flights of fancy
Though most favor nets over drop cloths
The Sistine Chapel had the Lord's touch











26 Words  3/28/21
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Iridescent ivory beams
stream 
through trunks
lining the lane
as through stained glass.
Rubies and honey glow
in the leafy tempera
of a sistine oak canopy.
In the sable silence
of autumn's crisp matin
I look up to see Adam 
reaching
to touch the hand of God....

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You
                                                      really
                                                   can get a
                                            sore neck looking
                                                        up  





Michelangelo 's            
The Frescoes of
Sistine Chapel...

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We all have to start somewhere.
Brick by brick, tooth and nail, you'll get there. 
You might not be a Saul, you might be that apple
So go on and drink from your motivational fountains
You might not build the Taj Mahal or paint the Sistine Chapel, 
but you'll move the molehills you've imagined are mountains.

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This is what happens when I don't write poetry for a while......

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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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Michelangelo had the vision,
To paint a fresco from his heart.
For it would surpass his time,
To be seen as remarkable art.

The Sistine Chapel’s ceiling,
Displays the inception of life.
Michelangelo’s rendition of,
God creating Adam and his wife.

Unbearable and surmountable odds,
And four adverse years to fathom.
He strove painstakingly painting,
Biblical scenes thus, creation of Adam....

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Inside the Sistine dome
of her mind
the superstar with the white shirt
open to the navel,
floating on a cloud
of ecstatic music,
are reaching out a hand
to a boy called Andrew,
clothed in nothing;
his initiative draped lazily
over his thigh.

Her hair flowing just right,
matching the colour code
of her attire,
she holds out a hand to him,
allowing a curve to show half hidden
for later exploration....

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Perfection


You are a work of art, a masterpiece.
You are my Sistine chapel art.


For you have become my true beauty Queen.
The one who shines, when all else is dark.


The Queen of my Heart; its bearer, its keeper.
I give you my soul forever, ‘til never.


Until the end of time
And until time is reborn.
I offer you my love…
If you want it, it is yours.


(C)2011 Aa Harvey. All Rights Reserved....

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When the wine is heavy
and my thoughts are long
I like to sit in slow sunsets,
doing so makes me feel far from death,
I've seen so many beautiful things broken
heard so many hysterical hearts,
I've been a flagbearer for this Faith
ever since my youth knew how to yell,
I get so tired, so tired in this tempest
that tears the tears off my weathered face,
but I keep livin for the light
I keep talkin and movin with the light...

J.A.B....

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We are the Ignudi
unclothed, ebullient and energetic, 
we lean and lunge, twist and turn
impervious to the imposition of ignominious imposters,
we are an expression of immortal youth
the athletes and auditors of God's court
unbound by banality or bashfulness
we listen and leer at those who stare
looking for secrets in this sacred ceiling,
in our faces you'll see the feelings
of primal awareness unadulterated by apprehension...

J.A.B....

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Musing in the memory
of how the Seraphim
salted my lips in the sanctuary
with an alter coal
that seared my cruel speech
and soothed my agitated soul
the cherubs pull my conscious back
to the forefront of reckoning, 

A man will come to care
for the rough cut and unclean,
the elders will cheat him
soldiers shall beat him
and doubt will nearly defeat him,
in his hour of quiet death
inside an unfinished tomb
the Lord will light up the room...

J.A.B....

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Sshhhhh!!!
Wait patiently
I don't want the stars to overhear us,
they'll fuss like phantoms
if they hear the future between us,
you know, I began as a palmist in Persia
the money was good, the hand lines were thick
and the future didn't waste time on lies
but if the king's court caught you crusading, 
if they heard hersey of heresy
from the palmistry you provided to the people
then they'd cut your hands off,
okay, I found the oracle of the Alpha and the Omega...

J.A.B....

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Michelangelo
Stretched God’s hand to Adam’s;
A bridge to heaven.







* For Gareth James' Familiarity Unknown contest and intended to honor of both the image 
and the thoughts it inspired.  The natural bridge and its expansion across that magnificent 
sky reminded me of the now iconic image that Michelangelo painted on the ceiling of the 
Sistine Chapel.  I've been chasing Michelangelo lately, so it doesn't surprise me that I'd see 
reflections of him in nature (or vice versa?)....

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