Girl with a Pearl Earring

[wildsweetone]

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b126/wildsweetone/girl_with_a_pearl_earring_detail_f.jpg


does this portrait bring out the poet in you?

 

[WickedEve]

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b126/wildsweetone/girl_with_a_pearl_earring_detail_f.jpg


does this portrait bring out the poet in you?

I love it. Definitely an image for good poetry.

 

[WickedEve]

I'm off to write a 100,000 poem for ange's thread that may not actually be about poems using 100,000 in them.
Anyway, I'm going to work on one for this image. It's such a great image. Where is it from?

 

[bogusbrig]

I'm off to write a 100,000 poem for ange's thread that may not actually be about poems using 100,000 in them.
Anyway, I'm going to work on one for this image. It's such a great image. Where is it from?

It's from a painting of Vermeer.

 

[WickedEve]

It's from a painting of Vermeer.

Thank you. It looked familiar, but I couldn't think of the name.

 

[eagleyez]

Vermeer's use of light and shadow, as evidenced in this portrait, are second to none, IMHO. The cracks in her face are very interesting, and the whites of her eyes are stunning.

Inspiring, to say the least, WSO.

 

[My Erotic Trail]

I saw the movie and it alone stirs the muse <grin..

yes this picture has a poem or two in it <grin I'll see what I can come up with;

perhaps it shines more eloquently when worn by another
for a maid to display such beauty grasps not some
an artist dances with brushes in hand
to reveal the beauty of innocence
the Girl with the Pearl earring

 

[bogusbrig]

Thank you. It looked familiar, but I couldn't think of the name.

Damn Wicked, that bottom photo has got me cupping my hands and trying to weigh a couple of spheres.

*must open a window*

 

[The_Fool]

There are eyes and lips, but to me so little expression. I am sure there is a poem there. Maybe due to the lack of expression. I'll have to think about it.

 

[The_Fool]

If only once
And not so long ago

Your second glance
Would have caught sight
Of my desire

Instead of looking back
I’d be looking forward
To a moment
Or eternity
Spent entwined
Our world a perfect pearl

I see the world
Eyes open
How it might have been

My lips parted
Offer words of regret
Of kisses passed up

Goodbye my darling
In the fleeting glance
You never made

 

[wildsweetone]

it's beautiful Fool.


i need to work on this a lot more (only wrote it a couple of hours ago) but i said i'd post it tonight so...


Girl with the Pearl Earring

There is hope in her child eyes
as she watches her lover
paint. She sits so still
while his brush strokes
and taps the canvas like rain pelting
windows, that ochre dries
on the edge of the pot. Innocent love
lingers in the orb
of eyes that no longer blink
and white health emanates
from a body that belongs to saints.
Youth blossoms from behind
her painted lips
and her hope reaches
to grip your heart like talons
of an eagle
holding his prey.

 

[Guest]

Isn't this the movie where she played the part of a slave. Well, somewhat. Like a maid in a rich home where the husband falls in love with her, and the wife is a royal bitch?

And yes, I see a poem. I see sadness, darkness. Dare I bore you with another?

 

[wildsweetone]

if the urge is there to write, then write. *smile*

yes, that's the movie. she was a servant in a house in Holland.

post your poem, i'd like to read it.

 

[Guest]

For Christ sake! I tried. I deleted and wrote, deleted and wrote, and deleted again. I studied the picture, looked deep in her eyes, remembering the movie, wrote and deleted multiple times, then cried. It's too fucking sad!

 

[wildsweetone]

so, write sad if it's what you feel. just write it.

(write whatever the painting says to you - forget the movie.)


i'm still editing mine.

amazing what a little tweaking here and there can do to a poem!

 

[White Warlock]

so, write sad if it's what you feel. just write it.

(write whatever the painting says to you - forget the movie.)


i'm still editing mine.

amazing what a little tweaking here and there can do to a poem!

I cant wait to read the completed poem WSO

You write from the heart and what you 'feel' <WG>

I agree with you about writing what you feel and not what you think you should write...

Blessings

 

[wildsweetone]

I cant wait to read the completed poem WSO

You write from the heart and what you 'feel' <WG>

I agree with you about writing what you feel and not what you think you should write...

Blessings

welcome to the poetry forum White Warlock! i hope to see some of your poetry in here soon. (and non-erotic is always welcome you know. )

give me a couple of weeks for this poem - i need to let it sit awhile.



i've missed you - i owe you email. will try tomorrow (monday) - i'm okay. can't stay today.

 

[White Warlock]

Welcome

Thank you Kiwi for the welcome ... Give me a day or two and I might just come up with something as well <smiles>

All understood Just let me get the hang of this forum <WG>

 

[White Warlock]

Girl in the Picture

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b126/wildsweetone/girl_with_a_pearl_earring_detail_f.jpg


does this portrait bring out the poet in you?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm I'm getting there Kiwi

OK Here goes

Lips parted
Pearl white teeth
Eyes deep
That will sweep

The artist
His brush a tool
His palette
Shades colours cool

Her face
Cherished in oil
Upon a canvas
Who non shall spoil

A wisp of youth
Yet seeing all
Her face shall tell
That knowing call

Expression captured
Locked forever
Her image stored
To last forever…

 

[wildsweetone]

so much for needing a day or two

 

[Guest]

Perhaps the whole image should be shown in all it's mystery. The angle of her shoulder adds to it I think. Sorry to 2nd guess WSO,

http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/artists/Johannes%20Vermeer/Girl%20with%20a%20pearl%20earring%20oil.jpg

 

[wildsweetone]

no sweaty mondo Tess. i was going to post the full portrait today at any rate thanks for saving me the task.

fancy resizing it a little - it doesn't fit on my screen very well. (and just as an aside, i feel that the black background says as much as the young woman herself.)

 

[Guest]

no sweaty mondo Tess. i was going to post the full portrait today at any rate thanks for saving me the task.

fancy resizing it a little - it doesn't fit on my screen very well. (and just as an aside, i feel that the black background says as much as the young woman herself.)

How's this? It's a few 100 pixels smaller.

 

[wildsweetone]

perfect! thank you

 

[Guest]

perfect! thank you

Any thing for you my little Fantail.