Best Edvard Poems

When love is torn asunder and there is nothing left but dissent,
a lover's heart will be shattered, mortally wounded and rent.
In a relationship that was...

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Inspired by Edvard Munch's oil on canvas painting - Ashes (1894) 


The fire of passion between us has burned itself out, 
These woods taunt us...

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Inspired by oil painting, Melancholy by Edvard Munch in 1891. Viewing the painting will help make sense of the poem.

The sediment courses with questionable energy,...

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Oblong outlines of a soul
Stretched in elliptical misery
Redefines the perfect circle
To a breakable volatile tautness

Loosely cloaked in sheaths of epitonic blue
Draped upon the shrinking body...

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Do you see the frame or the cage?
Step beyond and into this: a rare and colourful bliss,
island of calm in an ocean of rage...
Yesterday, the...

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Red House and Spruce by Edvard Munch

Snug, in a blue bunting of hibernation,
Red cottage 
In a clearing of indigo and ice spruce 
That form ribs...

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  that's sometimes the feeling of a reflection
    the notion of who you are brought into
   ...

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reflections of water
     shadow ripples
      they draw you in
  make you want to leap in
...

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Inspired by the woodcut, Kiss IV, of himself and Tulla Larsen, held in an embrace. Produced after the end of a 4 year troubled yet...

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there's always a hand in mine
anchoring me solidly to the ground
              ...

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The sediment courses with questionable energy, murky and conspiratorial...

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some of those stones have dreams
they watch every night
thinking someone just like them
paved a path to the moon

     it looks that...

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I leave the auction sick, my mettle frayed
A ghost, I fear, in oil clutched near my side
No doubt, a ghost for which I've dearly paid!
How...

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At first glance ...
Amid turbulent strokes
and vivid hues,
eyes mesmerized by
maiden's molten-red mane—
Love and Pain

Gently kissing
her lover's nape
in tender embrace,
while Pain's
lurking specter
overshadows their
intimate space,
threatening Love's
fragile grace

Second...

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"Vi træffes der, min Ven!" Solvejgs sang*

once after eons
we'll meet there again my friend -
time's zilch for lovers 

9/3/2019
Maureen McGreavy’s Sing Me A Senryu Poetry...

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