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Tempera Poems - Poems about Tempera


Premium Member Motion Practice
...Seven Morning Stars In the western Carpathian piedmont Which my grandfathers left long before, The peregrine falcon flees likewise From a tableau of fresco tradition, Superstition, and tempera......

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Categories: tempera, allegory, introspection,
Form: Blank verse
Dancing Tiger
...Performers painted like tigers and hunters dance to drumbeats on the fourth day of Onam, an annual harvest festival of Kerala. Dancing Tiger Many farms have been buried, yet the harvest fest......

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Categories: tempera, dance,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sistine Canopy
...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 c......

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Categories: tempera, autumn, imagery,
Form: Ekphrasis
Pudding
...Proof of pudding lies on palate Not on plate Sweet pudding is sweet Even if mixed with pellet. Pudding over-eggs are best In artist’s palette-tempera [Epigram]......

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Categories: tempera, fun,
Form: Epigram
Daybreak
...Helios, open darkened shutters Night did seal; Nyx's opaque, drawn shades one by one peel. With prehensile fingers grip your enlightened quill, Selene's pale orb with luminescent lines reel. With gil......

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Categories: tempera, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme



Museum of Contemporary Life
...Lazy afternoons on easels Maples giggle loud with sweetness Blue and yellow mixed in grasses Withered wrinkles sink in lilies Joggers run in fear of dying Secret trails end in abyss As the sun stabs......

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Categories: tempera, life, sad, giggle,
Form: Free verse
The Last Supper
...Faded tempera Leonardo da Vinci Jesus was betrayed......

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Categories: tempera, art, mystery, religion,
Form: Haiku
Breathtaking Sunrise
...Pacific murmur Blond eyelids wake up seagulls Happiness alive Surf and rays in love Paintbrushes escape from box Immortality... Tempera of Soul Obsessive Golden Spectrum Rip open my chest......

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Categories: tempera, life, nature,
Form: Haiku
Then I Can Die
...If all I did was made you feel so real Among aortas of much needed love With silky shoulders of stern Pacific layers Disturbed by memories of wings... If I defected life and accepted wrinkles Of h......

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Categories: tempera, art, hope, imagination, love,
Form: Free verse
The Prestige of Portrait People Preserved In Paintings.
...Pickled like gherkins in vinegar Crystallised forever in sugar Set and translucently Jellied ... Hung like smoked, salted meat Pigments crushed from earth brushes from fine animal hair ......

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Categories: tempera, art, history, nostalgia, people,
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things