Rembrandt Tanka
Rembrandt liked to paint
dogs shitting in the corners
of his big crowd scenes,
maybe just to take us all
down a peg or two, okay?
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Rembrandt liked to paint
dogs shitting in the corners
of his big crowd scenes,
maybe just to take us all
down a peg or two, okay?
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Love it!
😂
I love this! I try to get herons in all my photos, but they like to bring me down more than a peg or two by disappearing into the trees. 🙂
Tell me about it, Roberta! Birds are such teases, photography-wise. Now you see them…
i would LOVE a world where a heron was in EVERY photo…
please keep trying to make this a reality.
Haha Dustin! I’m on this wavelength. That would be amazing. A benchmark for sure!
Roberta, you need to a write poem launched by this. The juxtaposition of Rembrandt and shitting gives the poem a yin-yang balance. To me it’s a perfect tanka.
Thanks, Linda! Perfection in your eyes is true perfection. 😏
Well done.
remember aunty shit her pants…
-unrelated to your offering… i just wanted to engage in a little wordplay with ‘rembrant’ tried to make one work with tremble, but gave up or lost my way.
thanks for this smile.
Your mind is a wonderland, Dustin!
you started it..! 😉
i’m just trying to keep your balls in the air/keep your balls in play (?sports references were never my forte.)
to keep the muse alive.
–to say what i see and see what i say.
for me the best part of lexpomo is the chance to
let other eyes in our notebooks.
a chance to realign and crack some spines.
Consider my spine well cracked.
Hilarious, Kevin!
Thanks, Bill!
Ha! I didn’t know this about Rembrandt.
Me neither! Maybe if things like this were taught in my history classes, I would have paid attention😂
Ha! Gotta love a master who is also a trickster. Great voice in this.
Thanks, Austen!
on first speed reading, I misread the second line, wondering . . .
OKAY x10, Kevin!
Thanks, Lisa!
Put a smile on my face this morning, Kevin! Nice!
Glad to serve, Debbie!
You chose the perfect form for this insight, Kevin! Brief. Sharp. Memorable.
hahaha – perfect!
lol I like the mischievousness
Ha, Kevin. Leave it to you. Formal structure for base subject.
Love this!
I love humorous poetry, though it can be difficult to do well. This is nicely done
Rembrandt, dog poop—in a tanka—the tanka masters would commend you