Robert Lindley Poet Ekphrasis

Two Beach Strolling Sisters Discussing Their Savior

Two Beach Strolling Sisters Discussing Their Savior

This was his virtue; that with head and heart  
He saw life sanely, from all mist apart, 
and spoke with such assurance as he showed  
our way as straight as an old Roman road.  

This was His beauty, that with bird and flower  
He loved the strange revealings of each hour,
from wandering stars, from waywardness of earth;  
Fountains of poesy quivered at his birth. 

This was his grandeur, that in all he saw 
or dreamed, he bowed before eternal law. 
Knowing his soul the vassal of the King  
whose realm is established by our laboring!

Robert J. Lindley, 1-10-2016

Painting number seven
Poem number seven, Ekphrasis (rhyme)
Inspired by- the painting
( Twilight Confidences,  by Cecilia Beaux 1888)
and Debbie Guzzi's 10 for 10 challenge
Ekphrastic: Writing on Art and Art on Writing  [this site ACCEPTS reprints] http://www.ekphrastic.net/submissions.html

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Andrea Dietrich January 10, 2016 at 7:08 PM you got some great inspiration from that painting, I'd say. Well done! Robert Lindley January 10, 2016 at 7:22 PM Thanks much my friend. We poets must take our inspiration when and where we may get it. This challenge has been a great and inspiring motivator for me this week. A worthy challenge and even a bit hard since my health and family duties are both problematic as of late. Seems to me that I am never getting enough sleep or rest.