Ekphrasis On Monet's Water Lilies

Floating fluttering fleurs are jewels in fuchsia and magenta transmuting into taffy hue with the kiss of dappled sunlight like her cheeks that blush in pink with his wondering wink. The willows are stalactites seducing newly bloomed nympheas slumbering in Egyptian blue water like her shaggy windswept hair teasing her beloved's face beneath the dancing moonlight. Oh, Monet, your 'en plein air' emphyrean elegance awakens my sacrosanct senses as I envisage a Filbert brush glazing each pearly petal highlighting sun's luster on emerald to lime leaves, on cyan to admiral water, reflecting cerulean sky in consummate chiaroscuro. 7 April 2022 A Briand Strand Premiere Choice Poetry Contest Sponsored by Brian Strand 8th place Notes: In 1893, Monet, a passionate horticulturist, purchased land with a pond near his property in Giverny, intending to build something "for the pleasure of the eye and also for motifs to paint." The Water Lilies is a 1919 painting by impressionist Claude Monet, one of his Water Lilies series. The painting, the left hand panel of a large pair, depicts a scene in Monet's French pond showing light reflecting off the water with water lilies on the surface.  (www.metmuseum.org) *plein-air painting, in its strictest sense, the practice of painting landscape pictures out-of-doors; more loosely, the achievement of an intense impression of the open air (French: plein air) in a landscape painting(www.britannica.com).