! ! Impressionism In Paint, In Music, In Words Comments

I love it when you include art in your poetry. It's a subject you know and it adds knowledge to your lyricism. I feel like that cliche about feeling like you can walk into the scene of a painting - I feel I could walk into the Renoir scene of your poem. Excellent.

This is breathtaking, Michael. I would have chosen all those same examples of beauty, had I been astute enough to write about beauty. You have outdone yourself. Raynette

I like it Michael...as always good work!

Michael, I think it is a beautiful poem.

Yeah, I do a slow foreplay. Turns me on. You'll have to live with it.

Monet, no. Renoir, yes. Proust, yes. Debussy, yes. 'while their tonight's men smoke' was a very strong line. The first verse was all over the place but if you cut that out (pure hokum) , you have an evocative piece here. Very well thought out in places. A creditable canvas indeed.