Vermeer Poems

Vermeer Never Disappoints

Vermeer never disappoints, capturing people muted in shadows
Officer and laughing girl is a weird name for this one
I have seen many laughing people, she barely smiles
But who am I to argue with the artist who named the piece?

The officer is dressed brilliantly in brighter colors than usual
Vermeer’s paintings are almost always done in anything but red
The hat is as impressive as the woman’s bonnet is Dutch dull.
The fascination for me in this piece is the window and the map.

The window is a masterpiece, I cannot fathom recreating it.
The map holds my attention due to the immaculate details of it.
Vermeer knew what he was doing; his strokes are exquisitely done.
It seems odd the girl is sitting rather than working; quite uncommon.

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INTIMISTA Vermeer etc

Domestic interiors
falling pearls
 of  splendour
the everday
in
quiet,calm
  still snapshots
of life
hints of the unsaid
Indelible
   seared deep
in memory
 Unsolved enigmas
conjecture preserved
in paint
Silent sounds
echo
& stir
  with familiarity
the moments of interplay
 vivant
  intimate
intricate details
 begin  the beguine
  joys outflows
 perfection
  preserves the serene
 mirrors the sublime
with emphasis
 &     suggestion

stresses
       of the fanciful
&the significant
with
             implications
  &illusions

Vermeer and His Girls

VIRGINAL GIRL
begin the beguine..
Make your music mine
LAUGHING GIRL
joy's outflow-from eyes aglow
GIRL WITH EARRING
a look of love-
into eternity's mirror
LACEMAKING GIRL
intricate detail
patient design-
portrait of time
MUSIC GIRL
when the music ends-
we no longer can pretend
LETTER GIRL
a few words
can make us ill-
or better
WINEGLASS GIRL
a girl with a glass
chateau red-
a touch of class
NECKLACE GIRL
mirror to face
with a necklace-
memory without a trace
PENSIVE LADY
lost in thought,
she sighs...caught
by vermeers eyes
PIANO GIRL
sing and play
concert,piano forte-
art,forgotten today
GUITAR GIRL
the music of the dance,
love in her glance-
to her true love,perchance?
JUG GIRL
a maid,unafraid
innocence..
displayed
LUTE GIRL
her tune,picked by ear
brings forth a tear-
yet draws us near
BALANCE GIRL
a delicate touch
frozen in time-
a story in mime
SINGING GIRL
the singers or her song
forever to us belong-
picture music vivant
THINKING GIRL
think on,think long
thought,her everyday song

Girl With Pearl Earring Johannes Vermeer

a look of love-
                        into eternity's mirror

Vermeer a Tribute

..he
    ...remembers
..he sketches

moments
      of intimate
interplay
       the
detail begins
      & joy outflows
aglow
in
        close-ups

in looks of love
into
     eternity's eyes

such innocence
displayed
by
delicate faces
to
    tantalise

portraits
in
time

yesterdays
preserved
      in paint
a museum
   of memories
in enigmas unsolved

looks
    to read
the sereness
      between muse
and our eyes

a mirror
      sublime
        
     preserved
in
  paint

Ekphrasis Snapshot - Vermeer

a look of love
into eternity-
words unspoken

Clerihew Vermeer

Vermeer decidedto use chiaroscuro
by this ,his paintings we know
Girl in various poses,his thing
especially the one with an earring

Painting a Vermeer Verity

deceiving
            the eye
with emphasis &
              suggestion

stresses
       of the fanciful
evidence
      of the significant
with
                implications
  illusions
     enigmas

        connotations
                  in the eye
of
the
beholder

Vermeer My Dear

thru
       the keyhole
of domestic
         virtue
a woman
               sits
                    questioning
                       concerned
a focussed
      intimacy
of
the
          eternal
              nature
unguarded
   moments

 generational
  &  contemporary

through the
                  ages

Prose Poem Vermeer

Vermeer sketches...he   ...remembers moments of interplay vivant intimate intricate details begin  the beguine & joys outflow  perfection aglow enigmatic close-ups in looks of love into  eternity's eyes such innocence displayed in delicate faces to   tantalise lost in thought portraits in time yesterdays
preserved  in paint a museum of memories in enigmas unsolved looks to read conjecture  preserves the sereness between muses and our eyes
& a mirror sublime

Johannes Vermeer a Trio of His Girls

VIRGINAL GIRL
begin the beguine..
Make your music mine
LAUGHING GIRL
joy's outflow-from eyes aglow
GIRL WITH EARRING
a look of love-
into eternity's mirror
LACEMAKING GIRL
intricate detail
patient design-
portrait of time

Johannes Vermeer More of His Girls

MUSIC GIRL
when the music ends-
we no longer can pretend
LETTER GIRL
a few words
can make us ill-
or better
WINEGLASS GIRL
a girl with a glass
chateau red-
a touch of class
NECKLACE GIRL
mirror to face
with a necklace-
memory without a trace
PENSIVE LADY
lost in thought,
she sighs...caught
by vermeers eyes
PIANO GIRL
sing and play
concert,piano forte-
art,forgotten today

Johannes Vermeer and His Girls

GUITAR GIRL
the music of the dance,
love in her glance-
to her true love,perchance?
JUG GIRL
a maid,unafraid
innocence..
displayed
LUTE GIRL
her tune,picked by ear
brings forth a tear-
yet draws us near
BALANCE GIRL
a delicate touch
frozen in time-
a story in mime
SINGING GIRL
the singers or her song
forever to us belong-
picture music vivant
THINKING GIRL
think on,think long
thought,her everyday song

Vermeer Girls Recited

VERMEER’S GIRLS
Girl with a jug or necklaced
with pearls,lute and guitar
over the centuries seen from
afar.In intricate detail,a patient
design, of portraits in time.
These looks of love into
eternity’s mirror.Their beauty
his art with a delicate touch,now
frozen in time.Which muse shall
we choose,and which to lose.

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