"L'Orientale à la grenade" (Girl with a pomegranate) by French academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau, made in 1875.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905).
Oil on canvas. Private collection, on loan to Lusail Museum, Qatar.
Girl With A Pomegranate
Nice pomegranate
to tap in the morning for
seeds so bright and red
The eyes of the gazelle
The brown of Arabica coffee
The smile as warm as molasses
Lips as red as apples
Nice pomegranate,
I'm tapping you too
in our bright red bed -
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“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to
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