I like Peter’s word-palindrome on the Escher woodcut and the general idea of a poem mimicking the form of the other artwork. Here’s my ekphrastic take on John Cage’s 1951 composition 4'33".

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A fine poem, Henry. Every bit as good as the piece. A word of warning, though - when performing this poem in public, take heed of the rules governing copyright.
Joan

LOL!

Love the "reflection" poem on Escher! Here goes another one with a visual trick to it:

"Woman With Chrysanthemums," Edgar Degas

Here's a huge bowl of them, loud, massing their
weight against her; see how one paw of flowers
nears her, but fails to move the woman not
straight in her listening pose, abstracted air.
What glance she lets us see will not meet ours.
Ours wants to know her better, testing what
air she breathes, how her lips demonstrate
not hardness but hard patience. If it nears,
flowers to speech, will it seem worth her wait
there, what she turns to, what she almost hears?

Twittledy - Twattledy
Dubya C. Doubleyew
Shows us a wheelbarrow
Glazed by the rain;

Chickens are added to
Juxtapositionally
Burnish an image that's
Rather inane.



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Can't resist, just for fun http://www.ablemuse.com/erato/ubbhtml/smile.gif


Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Captain Ivan Danko, a Russian detective hot on the trail of Russia’s deadliest drug smuggler throughout the mean streets of Chicago...
xxxxxxx–- from a review of the 1988 adventure film “Red Heat”

Rotten Veektorrr, brigand, all-around skunk,
flees to the USA with his entourage
of crooks and rolls his new wife, stuffed in a trunk,
into the river, plunk!

He needs Arnie’s help to retrieve some junk,
tries to buy him off in a parking garage.
Buy off Arnie! I don't think so, punk!
Nyet! But talk about spunk!

'Cause Arnie’s tough and upright, clean as a monk,
kind of dweeby -- a celluloid collage
of Cold War stereotypes you know are bunk,
just made-for-movies junk,

but still you cheer him on. He’s such a hunk
and always ready to join in that next barrage
of righteous gunfun –- whoa! That Rooski’s sunk --
Yaaay, a slam dunk! --

For Arnie blows away what aggravates you
until he turns around and terminates you.


[This message has been edited by Susan Vaughan (edited September 11, 2003).]

I meant to say how much I have enjoyed the above poems. But I do feel that special mention must go to Henry's John Cage ;)


Just for fun an old poem:

Mr and Mrs Andrews by Gainsborough

Bored snobs pose against their stately park
Gainsborough can’t have liked them very much.
There’s malice in each delicate brushmark--
a playful caricaturist’s mocking touch.
See how he flaunts his territorial gun;
notice her nasty mouth then move away,
share in the laughter, join the painter’s fun.
Genius lets the elements win the day.

Gathering rainclouds dramatise the sky,
chiaroscuro lights the rustic scene;
coppices glower but pastures glow nearby
as menace amplifies the whole demesne.

Taffeta notwithstanding, soon the gods
will empty the bucket on these blighted sods.

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http://www.dl.ket.org/webmuseum/wm/p...gh/andrews.jpg

Edited years later in the hopes that the picture will manifest.

Here's an extraordinary engraving by Breughel. Anyone want to try making a poem of this? If we get more than 5 distinct entries, I'll donate a signed original photograph to the "winner" as selected by some means of judging yet to be determined...

http://4.avatarreview.com:8084/pictu...ghelfishes.jpg

(robt)

Robert
I've got one but gather I must wait until 7 days have passed since I posted one in the Deep End. Do you have a URL for this one?
Janet

Janet,

I don't think the posting rules apply to the non-crit parts of erato like general talk, funexcise etc.

No, I don't have a url for that, it's on my hard drive sent as an attachment from someone who found it, but if you right-click the image itself you can see the url of my site, which is hosting it, and/or you can download it directly from here and save it on your computer.

You might wanna peek at the meadowstung site tho, it's amusing...

(robt)

btw people, the photographs from among which you may choose your prize sell for $250.00, and are archivally processed: they'll last at least 150 years. How about some entries?

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