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Magritte - Homage to Alphonse Allais

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(Alphonse Allais didn't really get a mention in my poem and I just wrote with a sense of the surreal using the painting for inspiration)

I'm the dead-eyed stare, tied up in stories of self I can't feel. Lighter than air, the breeze stole the blue from my eyes, tangled me in who I wish I was. Every scale lies flat - I can't move forward, suspended, caught in perfect form. Ideals shimmer just out of sight, mechanics frozen, fear painted end to end. All of me lost to you who knew me once. Reflections bear my image, then drift away. Instinct courses against my grain, intrusive wishes scratch off my surface to see what lies beneath. I imagine you naming my shade of blue, stroking your hand down my spine, picking out the body of bones I don't need. Warming me until I'm flesh and blood and breathing; casting upon me a spell of time that stands still ~ so very differently than this one.

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Anais Vionet

Date: 1/7/2025 3:30:00 AM

You have some wonderful and evocative word combinations and phases here. I love, "intrusive wishes" and the line "you naming my shade of blue." Like, 'you saw me, I stood redefined in your eyes.' I like how you've embraced an explicit, Ekphrastic style—of course I haven't read all 6 billion of your pieces, perhaps this is just an artistic phase, like impressionism (1870-1900) =]

Di11y Da11y
Date: 1/7/2025 4:11:00 AM

I definitely hid my best work within the 6 billion so that only the dedicated would ever see them lol. I started ekphrasis just because a contest sponsor said they liked it but I now adore using art as a jumping off point for a poem. It allows more expressive freedom (despite the non de plume I still feel exposed haha). Maybe I talk about the painting, maybe about myself. Less people recommend Jesus or therapy too. I don't write exclusively ekphrasis - others are journal style like yourself and I write occasionally in form. Poetry bottles a moment in a way memory fails to. Thanks for delving a bit deeper than just latest posted. Appreciated :)

Hilda Greenhough

Date: 1/1/2025 2:18:00 PM

The picture captures your words. I like how the poem works with it. Thanks for these interesting fish thoughts.

Di11y Da11y
Date: 1/1/2025 2:30:00 PM

Haha I knew there was a gap in the market for fish thoughts and dived in :) glad you liked it x