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[He Is] An Artíst

greenie's picture

Confounded, uninspiring visions of
desperate hopes-
pinning dreams on flighty canvas

red, ruby, majestic, cold
red inkstains, paint splatters,
liquified poison

Punk rock mix symphonia-
soundtrack to their lives,
ethnicity creating an "image"

cocoa spotlights
glimmer, shatter, twisticulate
accentuate divinity

Paint brush and ochre
mixture tacked to a
mulberry wall with a
shellacked coat of gin
and smoke.

Geist's picture

I really like this. The way

Submitted by Geist on July 1, 2008 - 10:29.

I really like this. The way it flows, the varied vocabulary.

Beautiful.

-Geist

offreadin's picture

Nice! Quick thing, I think

Submitted by offreadin on July 1, 2008 - 11:29.

Nice! Quick thing, I think ocre is spelled ochre or ocher. I just looked at my dictionary, and this word is a little weird. if it's spelled ocher it's a noun [or a verb]. If it's ochre it's a verb.

I like the colors and the italics on every other stanza.

NonSequitur's picture

Beautiful, undeniably

Submitted by NonSequitur on July 1, 2008 - 13:37.

Beautiful, undeniably so.
About ochre/ocher: "Ochre" can be a noun, if you're going by the British spelling. Like grey/gray, accoutrement/accouterment, centre/center.

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offreadin's picture

~:-P

Submitted by offreadin on July 2, 2008 - 11:22.

It depends on what dictionary you use. some say ochre is just the verb and some say it's just an alternate spelling. I would suggest just using the American spelling, no ambiguity involved.

SnowStars's picture

i love your

Submitted by SnowStars on July 1, 2008 - 19:25.

i love your words!!!!!!!!!
wow. sweetly spectacular!
:)SnowStars

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