Will you forgive me if I just give a link to a poem I wrote about a clown ten years ago? HERE is the link.
For MVB-Clown
The Clown, For MVB, Feb 17, 2024
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In Life Not as in Art
In Life, Not as in Art
Those who have a fondness for surreal modern art
might often hitch their horses behind their apple cart.
Which might lead to dropping apples up and down the road.
Which, of course, will lead to losing half your load.
So, if Pablo Picasso is your aesthetic saint,
My advice for beginners? Don’t practice what you paint.
Prompts for today are cart, beginner, fondness, abstract, drop, modern . Image is Picasso’s la fenêtre ouverte.
On Picasso’s Imaginary Self-Portrait
On Picasso’s Imaginary Self-Portrait
Is it conceit or self-knowledge
that makes you paint yourself
in the ruffed collar
of Shakespeare
or a clown?
Satyr, young at heart,
your merry countenance
masks darker moods and behaviors,
the bright pigments
hiding a more somber undercoat.
Picasso,
your children
and your mistresses
might paint you as master:
stern, egotistical,
but always with the backlit inspiration
of genius.
Yet, old goat,
you paint yourself a clown.
Reblog For dVerse Poets: Clown
A Quote A Day
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
–Attributed to Dorothy Parker
This Quotation is number one. As I was typing this, I remembered that I wrote a poem entitled “Dorothy Parker and Picasso at the Beach” last year. If you’d like to read it, go HERE
I was nominated by Jane Basil to participate in the Three Quotation Challenge. You can see Jane’s wonderful blog site HERE. Thanks for thinking of me, Jane.
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