The Blue Boy
The Pink Boy
Gainsborough
For
SIMPLY SNICKERS
http://simplysnickers.blogspot.com/2009/05/poetry-prompt-through-sunday-may-17.html
FICKLE FAME!
Oh the fickleness of Fame!
One who's always made a claim.
His picture's one we all can name:
The Blue Boy.
He stands there in his fancy dress.
At his thoughts we only guess,
I think he's under some duress!
The Blue Boy.
His face, I think, looks rather grim!
His hat he's clutching by the brim.
Yet what a future waits for him!
The Blue Boy.
His face will feature everywhere;
People will view this art and stare.
And we must wonder if it's fair;
The Blue Boy
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For, underneath, please view the other!
Maybe he was a younger brother.
Maybe we should ask his mother!
The Pink Boy.
He looks a so much sweeter child,
Almost girlish, meek and mild.
Yet he wont drive the public wild;
The Pink Boy.
He'll languish on a hidden wall,
And not get much acclaim at all,
Does he view this with some gall,
The Pink Boy?
I rather like his languid pose.
I rather like his rosy clothes,
And it's a shame that no-one knows
The Pink Boy!
Gainsborough! Won't you please explain
Why he was treated with disdain!
(I think I'll look at him again!)
The Pink Boy!
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4 comments:
While I love Gainsborough's paintings I have never cared for Blue Boy. I think the boy was tired of posing and was not a happy subject. I do love his girl, Pinkie (I think that's the name) and I have a print of a woman he painted and she is quite elegant, but I can't identify the subject.
Hurray for the underdog pink boys and may the gods save us from the gatekeepers--internal and otherwise. Well said, both poems.
Utterly delightful ;--)
Hugs and blessings,
Girls are known to like Pink and Rose...
No wonder the Pink boy has come out in flying colours :))))
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