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Painting Poetry
Table of Contents


beach & nature

Bicycle on the Bay - decima

Caribbean - acrostic

Coconut Color Wheel - sestina

Coral - ghazal

Crisp Rain - sedoka (2 katauta)

Haiku Mini Collection -7 haiku

Long, Winding Road Shows Sun on Left, then Right
-sonnet following Michelangelo’s 15 line rhyme pattern

Mosaic Path

Our Love Lives from Coast to City - ballade

Radiant Hues - rondelet

Raspberry Emerald Mist

Seashells -tanka

Solemn Sailboat -septolet

Touch the Ocean - ascending

Yellow and Brown are Gold; Sun and Earth  -Spenserian


art culture

Art Umbrella

Balancement 1: Art, Love, and Words

Café of Hats

Chagall -mirror/palindrome

Classic Will Never Die

Keys to a Grand Song No. 1

Lady in White and Red Wedding Night -octave

Live All the Poems of Cold and Grey -kyrielle

Make Me Culture - song

Mary J. Blige -storybook free verse prose, acrostic with enjambment

Michelangelo - descending

Painter Picasso

Pleas to Songs in My Mother’s Heart
Barbra Streisand
Diana Ross and the Supremes

Please Take Our Word Passion for Your Word Soul
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Dr. Maya Angelou

Saxophone Man - rondel

Sofia, Sophia, Sofia
Sophia Loren

Van Gogh’s Dandiflowers

Versace, Gianni Versace - picture poem

Vettriano’s Paintings - diamante; Italian sonnet

Wear Men’s Characters in Layers

When in New York - musical song/story


inspiration/existence

All the Good Ones Are Not Taken - chant

Blue States Unite US - dorsimbra

Bright Gray

Children’s Poems

A Dance Brings Joy to Hearts -terzanelle

Art Umbrellas -children’s version

Sleep Sonnet -mixed sonnet

Connecting the Family-less - senryu

Day the Bees Got In -Ottava rima/octet

Flag for the World

Flowerflies; for Grandma -double five

Freshest Ireland Green - ballad

Heaven Sends Us Some Magic - naani

I Dreamt I Was Singing

I’m an American -song

Melting Pot -Sicilian quatrain

My Grandfather Lives in Me, How His Force Rules - Dante’s sonnet rhyme pattern

Oil - rubai

Picture of a French and American Flag

Rejection’s So We’re Loved - 4 verse Spanish quatrain serventesio/menor;redondilla/menor

Self-Affirmation

Touch of This and That - ballad stanza

Ways We’re Richest With No-things - choka

We See the Songs - rondeau


desire

A Cloud on the Hudson River

All the Poems I Threw Away -short ode & Shakespearean/English sonnet

Bleeding Hearts - anaphora; rime couée

Blessing’s Still a Curse -2 sonnets following 4 + 7 and 11 line length and rhyme patterns of Michelangelo

Can’t Let Them Pleasure in My Tired Heart -sonnet pattern of female Renaissance poet Leonora

Dance Box I roundel
II rondel; surrealism

Déjà Vu - pantoum

Even More Than a Way of Travel -terza rima/style of Dante Alighieri in 15 lines

Facet of Surrealism - Burns stanza

Farewell Gone By -song in 3 notes (basic piano version)

Kiss Upon My Tears - terzanelle

My Dear Love Left Me Cold and Left Me Quick -Renaissance female poet Antonia Giannotti Pulci’s
18-line length and rhyme pattern

My Life the Roses I Forgot Need Sun- 1 line; 2- line couplet; 3- line tercet; 4- line quatrain; 5-line quintain; 6-line sixain;
-7-line septet; 8-line octave (in iambic pentameter and various rhyme patterns)

Ode to a Heart so Rare - ode

Outstanding Chicago Artist - epistrophe; Greek/Shakespearean

Passionless Safe Return - triolet

Passionless Safe Return Flower Painting

Riddle

Roman Roses - villanelle

Slow Sonnets (Sonetti Boellenti)

Slow Touch - cinquain

Slow Touch to Live Like Lovers Do - quinzaine

Some Dreams Are Like the Opera Without Stage

- Sonnet Sequence; (Italian, Shakespearean, Italian sonnets)

Soon After I Fall You’ll Go to War - sonnet (early female rhyme pattern)

Take Me, Please
- tritina

The Absence of Romance

Venice

Whisper That You Long -Italian sonnet

Worth the Risk Lover I & II

Writer’s Ball -quatern

Basic How-to/Glossary/Index


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