MANNERISTA
affected
poses
florid
ornament
maneira
fine
& free
preconception
perceived
in
the left
field
distorted
elongated
exaggerated
over
emphasised
gesticulation
in
discrepancy
of scale
lucidity
post
vivid
virtuosity
unaudited
emotion
blended
in
abandoned
calm
Categories:
vasari, art,
Form: Didactic
I longed for more time
to lay cornerstones,
but life had started
detaching my soles
I wanted more daylight
to see a Galaxy of beauty
that rested,
within one finger of breath
I desired of many things
to walk the Ponte Vecchio
and glimmer in its wares,
casting a reflection in the Arno
that wavered to the Vasari
to shelter
beneath a Sistine vision
as Michelangelo, Raphael
Botticelli and Bernini
dart in and out
of my haunt,
smudging all in view
to drink the atmosphere
of Stonehenge,
drowning in its history
and laying as sacrifice
in a swoon of blood
‘I want’
screamed a child in me
~~~~~~~
I’ve become a fresco
fingerprinted,
with need and desire
astral traveling
from the nib of my pen,
I sate my thirst
but,
as time lessens,
and daylight fades
in the history
that is me
‘I have’
what whispers in thralls
a will that ever dreams
Categories:
vasari, inspirational, timehistory,
Form: Blank verse