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Chiaroscuro Poems - Poems about Chiaroscuro


Premium Member Chiaroscuro
chiaroscuro arvo by master artist.... moth in spider web...

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Categories: chiaroscuro, art,
Form: Haiku
Chiaroscuro
Lurching out of the door into darkness A street full of people, bodies pass n collide Plunging from dark to light! Not looking at or thinking of what is done Northern winds carrying the rush of ice come The harsh, brutal fire seers against my flesh The uncertainty of fate, the passage of sorrow Plunging from dark to light! All images rushing...

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Categories: chiaroscuro, allegory, allusion, analogy, angst,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Chiaroscuro
I’ve seen faces pictured half in shadow and half in light, mysterious, ominous, unsettling, though not half as menacing as certain faces I see in real life, warm, smiling, inviting, but on which, in the full light of day, you can’t see the mind....

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Categories: chiaroscuro, dark, image, light, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Haiga - Haiku
springtimes chiaroscuro gouldian finch...

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Categories: chiaroscuro, nature, spring,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Chiaroscuro of Children - Monoku 4
rainy day water colors refrigerator Rembrandts ©1/2/2018 submitted to – Monoku 4: Colours...

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Categories: chiaroscuro, art, childhood, children, rain,
Form: Monoku



Chiaroscuro
chiaroscuro of moon shadows through the dark forest mother has passed her love for this wood...

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Categories: chiaroscuro, death, mom,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Chiaroscuro
From purest white to deepest black And finite grays between, The chiaroscuro images As yet remain unseen. A canvas taut and unadorned Before your strokes begin, So too, a poem lies in repose, As tethered words within. Emotion is the shepherd of Our vision to complete. Inspired, we highlight, shadowing, In disparate technique. As paint will blend, so words will rhyme In varied routes depart, Then end its journey...

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Categories: chiaroscuro, allusion, analogy, assonance, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chiaroscuro
I am dying that the light may live Piercing my shredding shroud For the glorious sun to blaze forth Out of the depths of my darkness. His brightness will shine through To ...

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Categories: chiaroscuro, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Chiaroscuro Twilight
tracing the edges of her hourglass curve, he imagines her eyes’ shadows on oil and linseed… wanting to be filled with neutral hues’ lines as brushes smell of linoleum sky. inside her navel is a garden and a river waiting to be peeled, etched by strokes washed in brown and grey waters in a jar: he strokes milder through some verdant splendor...

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Categories: chiaroscuro, art,
Form: Free verse
Chiaroscuro Choreography
A light mist of ethereous rain falls silent on his thin, sharp-angled face. He lengthens his stride and leans toward the wind. He walks through plundered poverty; crumbled by the weight of exodus. Abandoned to the blood-rough nails scratching on the concrete diasporas of multiethnic history. Past the playground echoes of PS #59, as they drift along the faded asphalt haze...

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Categories: chiaroscuro, historylight, light, cancer,
Form: Verse
Political Chiaroscuro
I hear canaries crying, marginalized black birds In zones of pain I want therapy to bring wings more than words The people pray but need a king to march again If you are silent You concede the betrayal like a devil in your vein Wait, wait, the urgency's deterrent argument That fences cherry trees And leave minds in caverns of impoverishment No plan for...

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Categories: chiaroscuro, politicalbetrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Chiaroscuro
Clear, dark Hand of Illusion, from the Artists' dramatic Rendition with its Obscure depth and Secret dark Corners in the paintings' Ultimate expression of Repellant terror Out from her mind....

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Categories: chiaroscuro, art, imagination, introspection,
Form: Acrostic
Chiaroscuro
sun-spoiled colors like fruit to burst slowly yield to a shadow tide pulling a demure crescent moon posing nude for constellations extinguished by the tremorous lips of dawn changing watercolor into oil for noon’s dominion over shade hoarded then troweled and finally plowed as light is sipped into stars...

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Categories: chiaroscuro, nature, time,
Form: Imagism

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