Short Tableaux Poems

restless
eyes aflame
love dances
        with desire,
laid bare
in a tableaux
        of passion...

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A
pageant
unveiling
before our eyes,
the
yearly
calendar
revolves month by
month,
as
winter
welcomes spring,
summer beckons
fall-
we
tick off
a birthday,
closer to the 
grave.

Inspired by Christina Rossetti's The Months/A Pageant...

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Sublime reflections ,eye catching tableaux

monstich ekphrasis  tribute to Dutch realism in art

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SENTIMENT
 commitment
highly personal
 orthodoxy.
in
 modern values
so
enigmatic


a
tableaux
displayed
an inward
looking
response
a
temporary
 reaction
ushering
youthful
 fervour

distancing
the
inherent
musing
mediated
&
inscribed

 the
   ultimate
  translation
   remains
to
overtly
   accomplish...

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A brush of leg
mirroring mine
spaced delicious


Dust tumbles in air
playing kaleidoscope
to light,
laying transfixed
in scents 
of jasmine and hyacinth
enfolding senses
to serenity,
and in the moonlight
as the Grey gum
castes her shadow 
supreme


Struck
in Marbled rays
sprung from noon
to moon,
becoming 
a tableaux of
lust,
etched indelibly
into the stone 
of my soul



Gazing into
microscopic dust,


I sigh...

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Goblet of moonlight overflowed
Spilling glow, dusting ground
Spread over deep winter forest
Creating oasis fey folk found.

Moonbeams hang on denuded trees
Magical warmth spreads its glow
Forest creatures for one short hour
Join fairy folk in happy tableaux.

Enchantment fades it will not last
Winter will not be usurped this way
Silence so cold all creatures depart
Memory savored until spring day.


Pixabay image: BlueHeartGraphics...

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Sitting in the waiting room her sunlit day; complying to their sequence
Amid a foregone conclusion ? Appearing suddenly out of nowhere
Ineffable somehow it seems this, March two thousand twelve's
National Geographic's copy titled, 'The Journey of the Apostles....
Theocracy's last supper sublime; tableaux ? Instinct taking hold slowly
Savoir-faire walking past these doors surely tis for me ? Sanctum sanctorum
Seder thirty years now, gone by ? Why his doctor queried; Angels in the mist hieros....

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