Three poems by Neil Ellman

Three poems
by Neil Ellman

Marcel Duchamp

(after Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2)

NA
   KE
     DW
        OM
           AN
             GO
                IN
                 GD
                    OW
                       NA
                         GA
                            IN

++++++++++++++++++++

Jackson Pollock

(after No. 1, No. 8, No. 16, etc., oils on canvas)

Drip drip, drippidy drip
Drippidity drip
Drippidity drippidy drippiidy
               --drip
               --drip
           S P L A S H

++++++++++++++++++++

Andy Warhol

(after a series of silk screens)

Turquoise Marilyn Monroe
Regular pink and hot pink
Marilyn, of course,
And orange Marilyn, too,
Marilyn in gold--
She’ll never grow old.


Author bio:

Neil Ellman is a retired educator living and working in New Jersey. He has been published in numerous print and online national and international journals, with most of that production based on his love of modern art.