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# Pictures At An Exhibition
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/pictures-at-an-exhibition/
- Published: 2022-05-26T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-05-26T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: A still shot, water droplets stopped, midair; sun, incandescent, rainbow on their skins, and I, when I first see those eyes, and stare, stop breathing: life ironically begins when you are yanked from merely being on....
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

A still shot, water droplets stopped, midair;  
sun, incandescent, rainbow on their skins,  
and I, when I first see those eyes, and stare,  
stop breathing: life ironically begins  
when you are yanked from merely being on.  
Confronted with an existential pulse:  
Her! No one else! No masterpiece yet drawn  
can rival her. My want, a flock of gulls.  
I hunger, noisy, caution to the wind.  
She's looking back -- oh, what a precious crumb!  
My dreams are not yet dashed, but they are pinned  
on hope, irrational, that she'd succumb.  
What miracle life is, how sweet its bite,  
to give us lust, and lovers at first sight