Tag: art
member name: Mike Ellwood
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February 01, 2008 07:33 AM EST --
Hopper Visits a Diner
Her hands for warmth enfold the coffee cup.
Remembering her pale translucent skin,
The veins that bear the cool blue blood . . .
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November 27, 2008 05:13 AM EST --
Self-Portrait
I meet the mirrored man's appraising gaze
And focus on the pupils. In return
They peer as if attempting to discern
The nature of . . .
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April 10, 2008 10:00 AM EDT --
Daphne and Apollo
Pricked by Cupid's arrow? Oh, Apollo,
You were obsessed. A monomaniac,
Beyond your own control. Some of us know
How your sickness operates with its lack . . .
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November 21, 2008 09:24 AM EST --
Baroque
Hypothesists sift, like clams, the plankton
Of ideas, ever strengthening
Their own protective carapace,
Pearlescent notions cultured
In . . .
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May 30, 2008 04:02 AM EDT --
Sandro Filipepi (Botticelli) lived most of his life in Florence and, having been patronised by the wealthy Medici family, for whom he painted such masterpieces as The Birth of Venus, he fell under . . .
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February 19, 2008 08:55 AM EST --
Seneca's Last Words
Virtuous friends, death now or hereafter
Is immaterial. We live, we die.
We may laugh in poverty; in wealth, cry.
The wind . . .
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