Best Ekphrastic Poems

What pain you must have felt - what a life that you lived
A starving artist - swallows his own paint - in order to feel complete.
Painting the simple folk of a town
The tavern at dusk became your sacred domain.
The room at the asylum made you...

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while sitting at a local literary Louvre
with artists and some other radicals
waiting for return of grammatical groove
that had left me on today's sabbatical

I stumbled for some heartfelt words
to share with you of artistic notions
of whether art is abstract or more absurd
can it cure our ills...

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She wore an aura of light
and bent over a sewing machine.
Through thick lenses she peered
at every stitch created by her touch.

She didn’t say for whom
she was making the dress
while letting fine fabric
slip through her hands.

Her actions called it love.

When she’d give the dress
all she asked
was...

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Withered fingers
Cannot play anymore;
I drown in nuanced shades of blue,
Not seeing, in my plight,
My strings, wound tight,
Suspending me
Like a puppet,
Tethered to life.

I in my tattered clothes,
Blue like sorrow,
Torn like the heart that hopes,
Unable to keep out the cold
Or cover the secrets I hold—
I am the...

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