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Impressions in Musée de l'Orangerie
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Monet's water lilies — Similar to Jackson Pollock's large abstract canvases — Complete liberation of learned disciplines, In favor of sheer, unadulterated spontaneity Of colors and sensations — An explosion of feelings — Monet and Pollock Freeing up, letting go of, emotions, In an unbridled totality of organic sensuousness —
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What undiluted vitality, joy, exuberance, ecstasy Monet must have experienced, When, at Giverny, Through the blurred vision Of his blended-with-nature eyes, He painted these exquisitely sensual renderings Of water lilies, weeping willows — the pond.
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You and I could return to the curving murals In these cavernous paired oval rooms, At l'Orangerie, in the Tuileries, Every morning, noon, dusk, and midnight Of our sentient, sensual lives, To become one with the light, the dark Drifting, sifting down, Through the canvas-filtered glass ceiling, One with the throbbing brush strokes Of pulsating color, One with the Mind behind the mind Behind the immortal soul Of Monet's water lilies, One.
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