"...they are but beggars" by jan-u-wine, with painting by Monet.

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~ detail from Monet's "The Pond at Montgeron"


Here we have another splendid "parent poem" by jan-u-wine, its sombre beauty flowing down the page like the river it describes, its joys and sorrows flowing through the consciousness of the boy who lived by it, both its bright surface and unplumbed depths. To accompany the poem, I chose a painting by Oscar Claude Monet (1840-1926).

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