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Posts tagged ‘Picture Poetry’

“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in”—Leonard Cohen

Dreaming in Color title

Stardust haze
Colors ricochet
Prisms smash

Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass—Anton Chekhov

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“Ideas come from life: what happens in mine, what I see happening in others’, mixed with a great deal of imagination. I might see a person in a grocery store and build a whole character and life out of what’s in her basket”—Elizabeth Berg

Tiskets, Taskets 1

Smart baskets
Picnic in Paris
On their bikes

Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a familySister Parish

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“We feel the chill north winds coarse through the home despite the locked and bolted doors… this is winter, which nonetheless brings its own delight” —Antonio Vivaldi, the Sonnets*

Vivaldi Season Billboard

Cutting edge
Ornately Baroque
Artistry

We tread the icy path slowly and cautiously,
for fear of tripping and falling.
Then turn abruptly, slip, crash on the ground,
And rising, hasten on across the ice in case it cracks

—Antonio Vivaldi, the Sonnets*

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“I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa.” —Grant Wood

Goth Country billboard

Backstory
Gothic revival
A paint job

All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow—Grant Wood

 

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“Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums”—Salvador Dali

Dali-ing 1

Dream vision
Inverts perception
Surreally

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams—Salvador Dali

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“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks”—Plutarch

 

What sense peers
Into the darkness
Hears a light

Why should poetry have to make sense?—Charlie Chaplin

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“Unusual travel directions are dancing lessons from God.”—Kurt Vonnegut

Beside the Path 1

On the rive gauche in French
One is not maladroit
Who hangs left for a stretch
To gain la route à droite
Beside the path

Sometimes people need to take the wrong path in order to lead them to the right one.

―Nashoda Rose

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“At the typewriter you find out who you are.”—Tom Robbins

My Blue Pencil 1

When Underwood dings
I stop typing till
I’m done sharpening
My B
lue Pencil

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

—Mark Twain

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“My life is a mosaic, and there’s no room in between pieces at all.”—Marcia Clark

Mosaic Mile 1

They meet by serendipity,
in a surreal mirage of tile;
paired and spared for eternity,
to stand on the mosaic mile.

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” —Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Bard's Honest Truth 1

Shakespeare’s Prince of Denmark tells his scholarly pal, Horatio, of encountering a talking ghost wearing his late father’s armor and crown: an absurdity undreamt in Horatio’s philosophy, with which he is endowed by the enlightened rational faculty of the Bard of Avon.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.

—Ambrose Bierce

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