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    Quote Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry View Post
    The plastic rainbow factory
    where oompa loompas
    are crushed to give
    that certain hue
    smilies strained through
    colandars till they're pure
    purple people eaters
    mulched for months
    Orange organs donated
    by lemons
    Blue lagoons dredged dry
    now look into the sky
    and see colours
    better than nature could supply

    Before sunlight can shine through a window, the blinds must be raised - American Proverb

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    Hey check out me pistil!
    It looks like pistol!
    But because I'm a flower
    It don't quite have the power

    Bees seem to like it a lot
    So do butterflies and occasional moth
    They give me a tickle and I give them
    My pollen and it's sort of sexy - ahem

    But it's not the real deal because nature is cruel
    So I'm as lonely as could be - but there's a new
    Technology on the horizon I keep my eyes on
    Enabling Frankenstein plants to walk around

    I can hardly wait! It's been so long since I had proper company
    Another flower like me for all to see - we'll get it on night and day
    But of course this is ridiculous and even ludicrous because
    Plants aren't designed like that - but love should find a way
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    Big tubby nudie on a couch

    Why aren't you wearing a tent?

    Do you think that you're in a MacMansion

    Or perhaps a trifle bent

    Watch out that the legs don't break

    Under the weight of of the sky

    For I see that you're only big boned

    And actually as light as a dragonfly


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    It appears rich and true
    spreading the joy of beauty
    understood in a colourful surprise

    grace is its zeal
    announcing with sunshine
    to show
    the glory of distant lands

    http://www.keithgarrow.com/abstract-painting-golden.JPG

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    Pieces puzzle, big and bright.
    They sort of fit, but not too tight.


    http://deannlprosia.com/pages.php?co...ID=71&view=big

    The image is one of Deann Prosia's etchings (Portofino Harbor).

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    Quote Originally Posted by YesNo View Post
    http://deannlprosia.com/pages.php?co...ID=71&view=big

    The image is one of Deann Prosia's etchings (Portofino Harbor).
    Sailor of my mind
    let your oars slide
    this boat of gold

    over the waters soft
    to the moonlight hills

    where I’ll embrace
    my love revived



    http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...RwiCSnnclvsfzg

    (A Vermeer's painting)

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    http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...RwiCSnnclvsfzg

    (A Vermeer's painting)

    while I burn my fingers
    at the fire
    I see you through the curtain
    smearing pallettes of beauty
    with your knife

    http://www.google.com.au/imgres?imgu...w=1655&bih=805
    Before sunlight can shine through a window, the blinds must be raised - American Proverb

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    there is a prize
    we are winning

    there is a port
    we see
    standing
    on the brindled ribbons
    decorated deck

    there are shores
    undiscovered

    there are people
    dressed in their
    pompous clothes
    hailing us

    welcome
    flags of passion
    flaunting
    in the air
    of never ending
    emotion of content


    http://www.louvre.fr/media/repositor...9831254077.jpg

    (Toussaint Dubreuil)

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    Quote Originally Posted by free View Post
    Light and Dark

    The sky brings light. The shade stays dark.
    The lady's bright. The man's less so.
    She's pointing where he'll have to go.


    http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi..._promenade.jpg

    Renoir's La Promenade

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    Quote Originally Posted by YesNo View Post

    A tender child
    tenderly holding
    a tender flower
    tenderly lead by
    tender mother
    a tender woman
    touching
    her tender silky skirt
    a tender painter
    tenderly using
    tender colours
    and lights
    to paint
    TENDERNESS

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    Anthony van Dyck, Princess Henrietta Maria

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    A Woman's Heart

    She was caught in a moment,
    frozen eyes fixed ahead
    in a dead unmoving stare
    while her lips remain staid.

    Her fair flaxen face
    held in immortalized beauty
    reveals nothing beyond
    the beauty of the skin,
    for she remains empty inside,

    A painted vase in which
    no flower shall bloom,
    poor soulless vessel
    however so adorned
    is made no more perfect
    for that very flawless unchanging
    beauty in youth.

    Condemned to eternal grace
    and infallible poise that
    however you gaze
    no matter her admirers
    she will forever remain
    unknown.


    Next Painting


    Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

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    The Scream

    Two boats are coming toward the shore.
    A couple walks along the dock.
    A mind gets restless: what's life for?
    The ego pumps its lungs in shock.


    For the next image, here is a link to a painting by Jasper Johns. I used to admire some of his work at the Chicago Art Institute many years ago, but I'll admit not really understanding it.

    http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...9QEwAw&dur=178

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    Threes

    Quote Originally Posted by YesNo
    For the next image, here is a link to a painting by Jasper Johns. I used to admire some of his work at the Chicago Art Institute many years ago, but I'll admit not really understanding it.

    http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...9QEwAw&dur=178

    They pin jewelstones on words,
    diamonds that are softer than syllables;
    those words paint pine board into good oak
    that they build into handshakes and temples.

    The great strip-ed temple, haven't you seen it?
    It's built of 'good wood', it's built like they mean it.
    And to draw them red stripes the children are bleedin',
    tears on mama's apron while the poor souls are screamin'
    please let it be real;

    Let valor be real.
    Let honor be real.
    Let courage be real.

    And build a temple with all of these
    when you're building things in stacks of threes.







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    I know I should wither
    beneath your contention,
    but yet instead I writhe,
    beneath the shadow of your contempt.

    There is something broken
    within me that compels me
    towards your own sneering
    cruelty.

    In the depths of your
    cold reptilian eyes
    I catch a glimpse of
    the suffering you torment
    yourself with alone.

    But I only seem to thrive
    upon the cutting wounds
    of your sardonic barbs
    embedded within my heart.



    I recently started reading a book about Caravaggio and so I looked him up and was quite taken with his breathtaking work, and so this is Caravaggio's Narcissus


    Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

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    Narcissus

    The ladies hoped he'd look their way
    Since they were looking his.
    But he was looking his way, too.
    It's such a waste. What can they do
    To make him want what is?


    The next image is by Jackson Pollock. I don't know if there is any subject in the painting except perhaps the state of the viewer's mind after looking at it.

    http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...9QEwAQ&dur=438
    Last edited by YesNo; 07-02-2011 at 07:20 AM. Reason: grammar

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