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Gilly J
Number of posts: 1251
Points: 1178
Registration date: 2008-10-21
 | | Subject: DECEMBER CHALLENGE Fri Dec 02, 2011 6:25 am | |
| Val will set the challenge for December.
Good luck everyone! |
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Val
Number of posts: 1464
Age: 69
Location: Devon
Points: 1386
Registration date: 2008-10-22
| | Subject: Re: DECEMBER CHALLENGE Thu Dec 08, 2011 7:51 pm | |
| I have been thinking about what to use as a theme & I thought paintings, portraits particularly. Paint a portrait with words, describe a person, or an animal, if you prefer, living or dead, famous or not famous, some one or a creature close to you or not. Post a photo or picture if you are able to. This is my take on one idea...  John Denver Annie's song will never sound the same The Flower That Shattered The Stone won't bloom again Poem's, Prayers and Promises that you can't keep And all I do this fateful day is weep I met you once when you were in my land You spoke to me and then you shook my hand I went to many concerts, where you sang I loved your music and I loved the man I feel as if I've lost a special friend Will this raw pain and heartache ever mend!! But through your music I'll keep your memory And I will never forget you, Dear J.D. Val. I wrote this poem on the day he died. _________________  Regards Val |
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bruce_hh
Number of posts: 4431
Age: 64
Location: Monterey, California, U.S.A.
Points: 4928
Registration date: 2008-10-22
| | Subject: Re: DECEMBER CHALLENGE Fri Dec 09, 2011 6:50 am | |
| I awfully secretly with butter pats
remain enamoured of the styles of Keats
as he would sit with nightingales and rats
and send me challenges and other feats.
Keats perished rather young, consumed by much
inclusive of no end of special dreams
inclusive of the letters in some hutch
he sensed would 'partner' in some Scottish beams.
My favorite portrait of that ladlike guy
doth show him pensive as he sticks a thumb
directly in a part of facial try
as flesh would tend to go completely numb.
Oh, Keats wrote sonnets of another sort
than this 'thing' shows, for Keats was quite a sport. |
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Val
Number of posts: 1464
Age: 69
Location: Devon
Points: 1386
Registration date: 2008-10-22
| | Subject: Re: DECEMBER CHALLENGE Fri Dec 09, 2011 11:08 am | |
| I like that, Bruce.  _________________ Regards Val |
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Carol Perroni
Number of posts: 682
Points: 761
Registration date: 2008-12-27
| | Subject: Re: DECEMBER CHALLENGE Sun Dec 11, 2011 2:48 am | |
|  Van Gogh’s Eyes
Some nights
you can feel Van Gogh’s eyes
stare out across the night stars
of harbour lights,
shimmering
in the ghostly reflections
of the waves,
or in the twisting anguish
of sunflower stems
that can only feel
patches of the sun
peel away their passions
On Van Gogh’s bedroom walls
dreams hung on every hook,
and wove themselves
into the fabric of his life
The living shadows became enmeshed
in his mosaic of brushstrokes,
capturing the viewer’s eye
as it wanders among the ghosts
in his paintings~
swirling endless
starry nights…
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Val
Number of posts: 1464
Age: 69
Location: Devon
Points: 1386
Registration date: 2008-10-22
| | Subject: Re: DECEMBER CHALLENGE Sun Dec 11, 2011 11:28 am | |
| Beautiful, Carol. _________________ Regards Val |
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Carol Perroni
Number of posts: 682
Points: 761
Registration date: 2008-12-27
| | Subject: Re: DECEMBER CHALLENGE Mon Dec 12, 2011 3:08 am | |
| Thanks a lot, Val!  |
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Doreen Hampshire
Number of posts: 2569
Age: 71
Location: HULL England
Points: 2394
Registration date: 2008-10-22
| | Subject: Re: DECEMBER CHALLENGE Mon Dec 12, 2011 1:11 pm | |
| wonderful entries After reading Carol's lovely poem it inspired me to write about another famous artist
Sunset
I’m so impressed by Monet’s sunset
A wonderful painting, don’t you agree?
Such a magnificent orange sphere
That drops slowly into the sea.
Just what is beyond the sunset,
Is it where suffering will end?
A place where we shall meet again
With our family and our friends.
Sunsets they may come and go
For it is God painting the sky,
Where the weak rays of the sun
Now, not so warm, goes to die.
Just see the beautiful sunset
That dazzles with many hues
That glows on the edge of darkness
The reds, orange and blues
Doreen E Hampshire
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Carol Perroni
Number of posts: 682
Points: 761
Registration date: 2008-12-27
| | Subject: Re: DECEMBER CHALLENGE Mon Dec 12, 2011 7:53 pm | |
| I love your poem about Monet, Doreen! I'm very pleased that my poem about Van Gogh inspired you to write this poem and post it! I think you beautifully captured the 'Impressionistic' and transcendental qualities of Monet's work in your poem. I love to look at Monet's paintings a lot! I have a large reproduction of his 'Tulip Fields Near Leiden' and a few smaller ones hanging on my walls! A great write! Best, Carol |
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Doreen Hampshire
Number of posts: 2569
Age: 71
Location: HULL England
Points: 2394
Registration date: 2008-10-22
| | Subject: Re: DECEMBER CHALLENGE Mon Dec 12, 2011 8:45 pm | |
| Thanks Carol _________________ |
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Val
Number of posts: 1464
Age: 69
Location: Devon
Points: 1386
Registration date: 2008-10-22
| | Subject: Re: DECEMBER CHALLENGE Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:15 pm | |
| A lovely poem, Doreen. _________________ Regards Val |
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Doreen Hampshire
Number of posts: 2569
Age: 71
Location: HULL England
Points: 2394
Registration date: 2008-10-22
| | Subject: Re: DECEMBER CHALLENGE Tue Dec 13, 2011 9:40 pm | |
| Thanks Val _________________ |
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Carol Perroni
Number of posts: 682
Points: 761
Registration date: 2008-12-27
| | Subject: Vermeer Wed Dec 14, 2011 11:17 pm | |
|  Vermeer
I
Vermeer,
in your eye
the world shed its pearl,
and melted the two curled shells
of the world
in your hands~
how did you know
silence
shaping itself
in the thin icy light
suspending
the clear geometries
of our world?
Did you seek the secret world of silence,
trapped under the eaves of slanted roofs,
or in the darkened doorways
that led to dreams?
Did you feel its shadow-shape
surround your presence
as you shuffled alone along
the narrow streets of Delft?
Vermeer~
with a touch you brushed
the cold white canvas
into a translucent universe,
then shaded its meaning from our eyes
You pulled the curtains back
from the leaded windows
so slightly open
to an unknown distance
The mystic shape of aloneness
you revealed to us in the velvet gaze
of these meditative faces
that stare out into
the unknown rooms of our world
Who were these women
who shyly glanced at us,
then turned their eyes away
from the crude shape of the world?
II
The secrets of their chambered silence
lie on the tables that hold
the fruit and jugs that wait for us
The letters are written to us,
but the words we cannot read
The maps on your walls reveal
the geography of a world so perfect
that only the seagull shapes
of these women could lift this light
into feathers,
thrown from the drapery of their skirts
Vermeer~
how did you know
the drapery of a wave
as it lifts itself from a dark crest
tearing itself into pearls?
For centuries
your face has been unknown to us,
you turned your back on us
as you silently worked at your easel
You went unrecognized, on your way
down through the centuries
that passed the pomp and laurels
over to artists with lesser merit
Vermeer,
you waited patiently for us to find you
in your transformed rooms of light
that take us over
the edge of the visible world
How could you know
that a world so perfect could exist,
as the pearl eardrops
fell dangling
from your brush,
echoing on the shells
of these women’s ears?
III
The music is played so softly for us
on the lutes and virginals
that lie casually around the rooms
Who were these portraits of pearls
with faces
who weighed the world
through their fingers,
staring out their windows
or in mirrors,
as the light was shining through
the thoughts in their minds?
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Vermeer~
how did you know
a whisper,
as it turns the shell
of itself over,
and sighs
on the lips of a woman?
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Gilly J
Number of posts: 1251
Points: 1178
Registration date: 2008-10-21
| | Subject: Re: DECEMBER CHALLENGE Tue Jan 03, 2012 11:59 am | |
| Thank you everyone for the wonderful poems... Val will pick the winner soon.. she has a difficult job in my opinion...
thanks again to everyone who entered, Gilly x |
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Val
Number of posts: 1464
Age: 69
Location: Devon
Points: 1386
Registration date: 2008-10-22
| | Subject: Re: DECEMBER CHALLENGE Thu Jan 05, 2012 5:30 pm | |
| The winner of the December challenge is Carol Perroni, for her poem Van Gogh’s Eyes.
Congratulations, Carol.
Please pick the challenge for January 2012.
_________________ Regards Val |
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