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Melancholia

Poesia

poetry takes us to so many places, and we take poetry to so many places. here are poems about places, and sometimes the people found in them.

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Baroque

65 1 10

by DoggerelMan

by DoggerelMan

sculpted

of the clay

pulled from

primordial earth,

and dyed

with pigments

of ancient

starlight,

and written

into the pages

of life

with

enormous

words

and

a

filigreed

calligraphy,

and painted

onto the walls

of the world

in shades

of

ochre yellow

and

cinnabar red;

not

the surface

of the images,

but the architecture

of the work

itself.

brush strokes

and colours

and the vibrancy

of life,

and the volume

of the passion

throughout.

loud

and

colourful

and

conspicuous

enough

to silently reach

across thousands

of kilometres,

and

like anything else,

soft

and

quiet

and

gently

existing

in a delicate

uncertainty.