Famous painting Poems
Blue Nude : Pablo Picasso: 1903 : Ekphrasis
by Ghairo Daniels
she rose from depths of his despair
followed an artistic youthful
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TH
blue black curled ~ full grown
fleshy of fairer s _ x
yet u n w a n t e d em
bry
......
The Death of Socrates
by Chris Wind
they rejected the sentence that he proposed—
the reward of a distinguished citizen:
honourable maintenance at public expense
(he figured he was at least as valuable
as the jock who won the chariot race
at the Olympics)
—and decided again, on death
so he sits, the same, in that stone cell
reaching for the hemlock,
......
Blue Nude : Pablo Picasso: 1903 : Ekphrasis
by Ghairo Daniels
she rose from depths of his despair
followed an artistic youthful
D
E
A
TH
blue black curled ~ full grown
fleshy of fairer s _ x
yet u n w a n t e d em
bry
......
The Death of Socrates
by Chris Wind
they rejected the sentence that he proposed—
the reward of a distinguished citizen:
honourable maintenance at public expense
(he figured he was at least as valuable
as the jock who won the chariot race
at the Olympics)
—and decided again, on death
so he sits, the same, in that stone cell
reaching for the hemlock,
......
