Rallentanda

Rallentanda

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Poetic Asides...November 24

Prompt ...everybody says

that Picasso is a genius
I've looked long and hard
I've even looked behind
they're wrong
everybody says Renoir
is just a chocolate box artist
they're wrong about that too
everybody says solander
has a pungent smell
it doesn't
everybody says tibouchina
is gaudy...wrong
everybody is probably
the most dangerous entity
on the planet I'm sure they
would not agree

2 comments:

  1. Hi Rall,

    Having just leafed through my "Everything Within" I'm now wiser about tibouchina (and I don't think it's gaudy either) but am still not sure about the solander; is it a geranium?
    Sure is complicated reading your poetry!

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  2. Solander is a big yellow flowered vine from South America.It smells like a musky peach and is a virulent grower here.I'm not a simple person but I try to write simple poetry so I wont get any complaints.

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