Tag Archives: chiaroscuro
Darkness and Light
Mediterranean sunshine unique beauty creating a small separate world of light and shadow a butterfly aimlessly waltzing on a striped awning a pigeon nodding through early morning curtains black-headed gull seen from the bay gliding across a cliff face a … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged black and white, black-headed gull, butterfly waltz, chiaroscuro, cliff face, flash of grey, light and shade, lizard, mediterranean, pigeon, poetry, silver sea, striped awning
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Black and White and Red All Over
AnElephantCant help being colour blind It isn’t as bad as being flatulent or dead But he is just back from Italy Where quite unconditionally His breakfast croissant is served with Orange Juice that is RED Perhaps for some of you … Continue reading
Posted in Daft Rhymes, humour
Tagged breakfast, chiaroscuro, colour blind, croissant, discombobulation, flatulent, italy, monochrome, orange juice, rainbow, rhyme, technicolour
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Lord of the Wrinkles
AnElephantCant help but consider Why we get hairier as we get older Where once he was svelte He is now growing a pelt He looks a lot like a large furry boulder Now of course he has always been quite … Continue reading
Posted in Daft Rhymes, humour
Tagged 50 shades, age, bald, chiaroscuro, grey hair, insouciance, laughter, old, old age, svelte
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