Picasso

You made a profoundly disturburbing yet beautiful poem from a painter I never liked or understood. Thank you. cheers, Jess p.s. some judicious appliation of LSD may restore your features, or re-arrange the nighmare.

What a great piece on such a well known piece of art or pieces of art, can't say I like his art very much either but the poem was great. I think that sometimes he painted as we use words, to try and make a point where ever or what ever it is. Yours, Ian.T

Hi Anna, Really enjoyed reading your poem....all the stanzas used clever analogies to the face parts..and a nod to Picasso's post-modern style. Except the ending wasn't as clear as the rest of the verse. 'Released my lusty soul'?...for me, it didn't combine with the previous stanzas. Are you alluding to being more than a sum of your parts here? Regards, Ellie.

to the finish... I was smiling and tingling and knowing and wondering and loving and then it was over... and I read it again... Hi Anna... glad you found this one again... Richard

I'm a writer and an artist, and not really a great fan of Piccasso, but you hit the nail on the head with nice continuous logic, and brilliant disection of Pcso. wcw

This is truly beautiful. I enjoyed reading it.

I absolutely loved this poem. I have never understood Picasso or even thought he was a good artist. Most of his work looks like he was blind or 3 years old. By contrast though, I love Starry Starry Night even though, to me, it isn't good art. *LOL* Go figure. This poem, however, I totally loved from the 4th woord to the last letter and, unlike my feelings about Picasso, I think it is lovely, talented, unnerving and delicious. But enough of the negative about it. I liked it! Respectfully, Rett: "The only thing observable with the naked eye to exceed the speed of light is rumor" Unknown

I promise, It wasn't me! I want a paternity test. *LOL* Glad you don't hold it against me. No wonder you fell for him since he was that handsome.. *ROTFLMAO* ((HUGS)) Thanks Anna, I needed the humor. Been a bit down and that helped a lot. Respectfully, Rett: "The only thing observable with the naked eye to exceed the speed of light is rumor" Unknown

GREAT artist, child genius, brilliant draughtsman, tried to teach beginners how to draw by expressing that objects are 3-dimensional, and how they may draw in 3D- fluidity was prevalant in his work i believe-good you have written a poem bringing in his art, your imagery is abstract and surreal-thats the best comment i can come up with ,though Picasso was a little bit more than abstract i believe, though this may not be important for this poem-I like Kandinsky too and also Miro they are both very magical, also the titles to some of Miros work are exceptional in their poetic inventiveness.

i say- into blades of grass my homecoming -an exceptional line read this quickly so not picked up on other good lines, you have talent had to wade thrugh to find it though the poem is inventive that is good, even though i criticise my poetry not that good, sorry for this-

Beyond brilliant! Deserves publishment. Glad to smack you with a five-vote. Yours, Chuck PS: What a clever insight you share via comment, that lie lies in belief. Of course it does! Impressive. And so wonderfully accurate. (In an excess of delight, I applaud loudly---and from a distance; don't want to damage your ears' drums with my celebratory racket.)

I have been slack with my commenting and reading lately. What a delight it was to delve into the site and find this gem in the spotlight. Absolutely beautiful and clever, waking even the dullest of minds with images of Picasso's talent and mystery. My best, ~ Ronda

What more can I say then what I've said already you are who you are. Peace and Love Rolwright

Smiles:) Barbara I enjoyed reading this well written poem.

To identify onesself as a kind of victim (so to speak) of Picasso--a great idea and a wonderful poem. The opening line is perfect in more ways than one.

have probably not understood this poem, yet i believe it to be a marvellous piece of work rich and intense-

Anna,Great work here, imaginative and moving! You turned something ugly [Never cared for Picaso either] and made something beautiful out of it. Is it too late for the contest? lol "There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you." Will Rogers

A brilliant write Kailashana despite the fact that Picasso tried to disfigure you. But that disfigurement gave you varied insights. You are a visionary. Great job. Mohammad

Hi Kailashana, You have captured the enigma of the man in a web of beautiful words. The imagery is surreal and very apt. You have brought Picasso's work to the threshold of my inner eye. Take care ... Leonard

i make an apology on this site here , i used Pissaros' name to say d'ont take the piss-why i did this i d'ont know, because i did not like this when a art historian did this in a published article, i thought she was being silly to be honest, she probably thought she was a genius to come up with this- probably got paid a lot of money as she held a phd and is/was a professor at Leeds umiversity-not my line is a line of a professor Griselda Pollock-if you ever read this Ms Pollock you wrote me giving me your middle name what was it again ?-sorry about this neopoet what i have done, i will try not to swear also , and not to be such a fool, did not think ,if i was a thinking person would not have had anything to do with this professor in first place-I applied to do a Masters under her that would have been a waste of money-

the poem has a beautiful flow. Even If you were 9 years old and didn't understand half the words, it still sounds wonderful.

an article named d'ont take the Pissaro, if i remember correctly nowhere in this article did a Ms Pollock say people who have the 'skill' should not steal works of art from galleries, because money is spent on them for the benefit of the publics enjoyment, as you can see masters works for free sometimes , this professor did not say this, she used Pissaros name in a silly way, why she did this i do not know? point being here also i can not understand, if i am honest why in this poem you are talking about Picasso in a certain way-2 more things i know about Piccasso i think, was that he did not like Franco, and he liked very much for example African carvings, correct me if i am wrong here. If Picasso was the kind of man this poem is 'intimating' he was, would not he have been eventually faced with charges, even if his victim or victims were not aware of it , this poem is confusing me, because i think you are confused to be honest, also to be honest again the way you have written on 'Picassos ' violence is written in a way that is extremely corny, it is not poetry-i would bin this now IF i was you love. Also i was put in spotlight once, and the poem i wrote that was put in spotlight was silly seriously, though i must say not as silly as this.

Picasso did a mural, public mural for example, i only know of this, so you can see this for free, was it called Guernica? You may not like Guernica i d'ont myself, but because of a tv programme, i know that Picasso is/was an extremely skilled artist at an extremely young age-I just happen to like Picassos African art.Apparently Guernica has a political message of great worth like i said i believe the man did not like Franco,correct me if i am wrong-

am sorry that i enthused about your poem then changed my mind , some of the lines are good i am not changing my mind about this-However on re- reading the first 3 lines my gut reaction is delete this as you are only making yourself look a clown, sorry-as far as i am aware Picasso never committed any acts of violence on either you yourself or another woman you may know if you are not writing in the first person ,because as far as i am aware you did not know Picasso-neither did i know Picasso, that is why i would not accuse him of violence-may i ask you a question therefore was Picasso the sort of man that would 'have his way with someone and re-arrange their face' these are also lines that are badly written even if they were true.Honestly i can not understand why you have written this and i feel that neopoet as a site is failing very badly here for publishing this.Nobody should be writing this sort of thing about any person if they have no foundation for it.In short it looks as if you have made a wee bit of a mistake, was it something to do with my inane retort on Pissarro, a line invented by a Professor Pollock and one that i quoted more or less, on d'ont take the Pissarro, i d'ont know it may have been , because this line i think Professor Pollock thought to be witty? well she was laughing all the way to the bank-Do you think you have done something clever as well.

The main feeling about your piece seems to be very good and at this time of night I can't spell all the big words so wont use them. If only he did alter someone, you are probably in your own words near to your truth on how you would be, then to tell us in those words was great to say the least. I notice that some would want to bring in the man, to verify what he would or would not do to a person. Really to write a dream, and use his art as a base for being different on awaking, it matters not that your body parts were used in other ways, I still think to write this piece as is, was in no way a down on his work but it really expressed his art in a basic way, and to use it to bring out such a feeling and awareness, was great. Maybe a lot of us should practice seeing with our feelings, or even the feelings of others as they perceive us, then the world would be a better place Yours, thanking you for the poem, Ian.T

Picasso has always been a fav of mine, and this poem does him wonderful justice. I had to laugh at some of the lines - mainly your eye being under your foot, etc. I'm going to go screw in a brighter bulb in the Spotlight for this one!! Huge congrats! ~Jess ---------------------------------------------------- "Live every day as if it were your last; one day you'll be right...."

Piccasso that one that did the blue and pink period, or somethin, oh know you do not want to boffer with any of that, its' a loads of bollocks, and come to fink of it Da vinci and Raphael were a bit of a waste of time, they just did not make the effort.