Best Ekphrasis Poems
Ekphrasis on Cafe Terrace at Night - POTDStir my moonlight coffee
with your freshly dipped brush
in bright yellow ochre ~
I will not complain.
Sprinkle pigments from
from your pallets
on my unflavoured coffee~
I will not complain.
Even when
your indigo eyes
spill Prussian blue
to veil my night sky~
I will not complain.
Come sit with me
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Categories:
appreciation, art,
Form:
Ekphrasis
That Starry NightLike no one before, nor since
you painted that starry night in oils
superimposing your life story.
I feel I know this idyllic village
blanketed by tranquil rolling hills
embraced by calming olive trees
their very branches a symbol of peace
...
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Categories:
art, depression, night, passion,
Form:
Ekphrasis
MoonlightPainting by Edvard Munch, 1895: "Moon Light"
your soft hand trembles in mine
no words are spoken
we observe our ascending full moon
as we have every month for forty years
empyrean empress rises to her throne
queen regent of the night sky reigning
over brooding blue bay and melancholic mountains
as...
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Categories:
death, love, love hurts,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Laminated LoveFrozen flames pressed between each sheet
I flip every page while taking notes
Censoring every event in my past
I fall deep when staring at the painting on the wall
Every blink feels the same when in love
However, on this one night, I stumbled
On a...
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Categories:
art, beautiful, desire, fate,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Vincent Van Gogh: Cafe Terrace At Nightfrom beyond his
vibrant palette
that bore all his
lifelong scars
is what I see
beneath his sky
and myriad
of stars
a scene of shades
and silhouettes
formed by the
yellow light
that hints at
The Last Supper
at that café
in the night?...
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Categories:
appreciation, art, symbolism,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Your Smile Sends MeYou were sly with your wanton stare
How you seduced me with only a look
Neither classic nor found in any book
Unique to you it was somewhat unfair
While I was naked just standing there
The strokes so quick we barely...met
I do not know how the pallet...
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Categories:
art,
Form:
Ekphrasis
dear Gustav -
oh ...
Gustav, how you pique the senses
captured passion's plural tenses
lovers twined in percale folds
caught supine with spattered golds
porcelain dolls in fetal slumbers
...
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Categories:
art, beauty, history, humanity,
Form:
Ekphrasis
The Narcissist Who Saved Himself - Cynthia Howard - collaboration with Dilly Dallynothing spoils this surface view ~ see me
crave attention, gift empty touch
tonal mask veils flaws and vices
face alter ego and kneel
to feed the shallow shadow that circles
~ around gossamer tears of the grieving moon,
as silenced streaks of tongue-twisted...
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Categories:
angst, deep, mental health,
Form:
Ekphrasis
The Old Guitarist, Picasso - A Duet by Lioness Onpaper and Di11y Da11yThe searing sun has long been a revolving revelation of angst,
repelling songs of the skies, sung by the strings of the wings.
Pallid, poised only by muscle memory - a compositional backdrop,
past the point of revival, yet something inside me still ticks.
A trembling truth that never...
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Categories:
angst, death, imagination,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Waterloo BridgeIn London fog, the river stills.
In silver sleep, it cools and fills
with cobalt mist as dawn unfolds;
above the Thames, the sun bleeds gold.
Into the haze, it pours and pools
like melting opal, liquid jewels
until the brume of morning fades
to prune the sky with unseen blades
that slice...
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Categories:
art, beauty,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Abbi of BacabiShe left one day, her Kiowa village
And stood proudly in the sun
Beneath the Tabletop Mountains
And walked among the golden sea
Of waving grass, fearless and alone
Waiting, with keen ears and sacred breath
For the setting sun to call her name
So that her spirit could cross the...
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Categories:
art,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Roots and Dandelion Dreams: A Mother's HeartRoots and Dandelion Dreams: A Mother's Heart
- Daniel Henry Rodgers
Roots and Dandelion Dreams: A Mother's Heart
- Daniel Henry Rodgers
At dawn's first blush,
milkweed pods,
burst with a sigh,
A feathery shower of,
silk sending secrets...
on the wind's soft cry.
Yesterday they wore a crown of pink...
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Categories:
heart, love, mothers day,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Queen of ButterfliesThe sun’s sparkling streaks,
of sangria grace,
descend upon
the malachite verdant valley;
world of pristine mountains,
and evergreen tales of
rainbow hued meadows.
Where medieval castles
are guarded with a fragrant
fortress of blushing flowers,
enveloped in topaz gold beams.
She walks along the
fields of redolent reveries,
where hope sprouts
like...
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Categories:
deep, fantasy,
Form:
Ekphrasis
We, Nasty Womenmust refuse relegation, obey
only the roar of our own angels, then reshape
breastplates to shield the motherland
from any warlord who dares
to pimp our flag.
Battlefields have always been a woman’s place,
We were born to bleed, to fight-
off advances, to heal from the inside-out.
We, nasty, nasty...
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Categories:
allegory, history, political,
Form:
Ekphrasis
'separation' - the Art of Edvard MunchWhen love is torn asunder and there is nothing left but dissent,
a lover's heart will be shattered, mortally wounded and rent.
In a relationship that was once held as sacred and eternal,
sorrow takes a heavy toll on the one left behind, and infernal
flames of grief scorch...
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Categories:
lost love,
Form:
Ekphrasis