Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
The Rijksmuseum is a Netherlands national museum dedicated to arts and history in Amsterdam. The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and the Concertgebouw.
The Rijksmuseum was founded in The Hague in 1800 and moved to Amsterdam in 1808, where it was first located in the Royal Palace. The current main building was designed by Pierre Cuypers and first opened its doors in 1885. On 13 April 2013, after a ten-year renovation which cost € 375 million, the main building was reopened by Queen Beatrix.
The museum has on display 8,000 objects of art and history, from their total collection of 1 million objects from the years 1200–2000, among which are some masterpieces by Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and Johannes Vermeer.
Write a museum piece, or an Ekphrasis poem on one of these master works:
VanGogh’s “The Potato Eaters” Van Gogh Museum
Girl in a Blue Dress (1641) by Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck
The Milkmaid (c. 1657–58) by Johannes Vermeer
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem (1630) by Rembrandt
Phoenix Rising Poetry Guild 
The Little Girl in a Blue Dress
Her face looks old
Her eyes stained by the things she’d seen
Her hair thin and receding.
Her dress, once grand,
but handed down several times.
Her essence wishing for another century.
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This made me look more closely. It fits. Wonderful.
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WISE ADVICE
Now, eat
your potatoes
and pretend to like them
or else all of us will end up
in Dutch.
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July 19 – Rijksmuseum
Jerusalem
Jerusalem
A city in turmoil
Conquered and destroyed
Over and over
All in the name of fear
And hatred
Of the One and Only
True and Living God
But in the end
Jerusalem will survive
While all others fall
So it is written
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SO IT SHALL BE DONE
All-seeing,
all-knowing,
over-flowing font
of love and truth.
Omnipotent.
Seers and soothsayers,
prophets evangelize
and the wisemen saw signs
but could do nothing.
Oh, Jerusalem!
The text say and so it was
written. The will of man fails
against such a veritable opponent.
Proponent of peace and love,
as bolts of rage come from above.
So it shall be done!
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http://rhymeswithbug.wordpress.com/2015/07/Kitchen
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Intense in Blue
I chose Girl in a Blue Dress
Ghostly pale, her skin
and hair make her appear
an apparition. She stands
tall, dressed in baby
blue, hands clasped
over wide pleats
of skirt. Piercing
brown eyes startle
me, stare at me, haunt
me with their depth.
Her eyes are the sole
part of her face
that speaks loudly
in stilled pools.
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I agree about the ghostly look and her piercing eyes…nicely gathered, Sara!
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Sorry to post and run…sigh…summer, summer, summer-time! 🙂 Thank you, for the inspiration, Walt!
https://wordrustling.wordpress.com/2015/07/20/girl-in-a-blue-dress/
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