HOUR12

  Summer heat   Will you come under my umbrella to fight against summer heat together? Please tell me that you accept and maybe this will be the start of a new relationship.   Maybe the result will be a beautiful friendship or maybe we…

Hour 22: Black Velvet Night

A finer day, A ballroom dance, He sought his way With his advance. And false pretext. She’ll run away?   A friendly smile across the room, His words help you to fight the gloom. He reassures—   “You stand there waiting for a coach, You…

Hour 22

Painted Mirror Corset makes for a tiny waist While I pose holding still as I can Letting the artist fix my pose When I finally see the painting It doesn’t even look like me Skin too pale and hair too dark But yet something is…

The Art of Wearing a Dress

I’m using the descriptive text on the Wiki page about this painting, which provides a lot of description. I do enjoy writing ekphrastic poems, responding to the painting’s title and description. I feel the Madame in this painting is the kind of Bond girl who…

Soldier/Cook

It is just past five and I have woken up my boyfriend, who’s rummaging through another of his endless cache of duffel bags for the gym ensemble required for his PT test. Every second day of every drill weekend, he dons this, after having intoned…

Portrait of a Poetess

Hair, pinned up tight Binding, curls unyielding Like words, bound in dictionaries   Linked chains Weigh heavy On weary shoulders Unabridged; worldly worries She carries   Herself, with style and grace No loss for words Draped in the velvety meaning Robes of soft, but solid…

Madame X

Sargent’s Madame X is not just a socialite, she is rather the embodiment of French aristocracy.   Pale as moonlight, poised, brimming with dignity; her crown is an ode to the huntress.   And yet, her dark and dangerously low-cut dress, the accentuated curves sing…

Hour 22: Dirigibles Do Battle

Bang! Bang! Boom! Bombastic Thirteen gunners packing powder Bombshells trip the light fantastic Launching loud and landing louder Spray of splinters, hail of shrapnel Cut the ropes! Repel the grapnel! Those triumphant send their foe to plummet Blooming red and black on blanched summit

HOUR11

  I feel alive!   I feel alive and colourful! So alive when listening to what you send me! Awesome piece the one I just got! And a new one too. I never listened to this piece and I found it so full of joy…