The Scream Painting by Edvard Munch 1893
Turpentine waters of paranoia
ripple beneath an opaque surface,
merging with the burnt umber sun,
ravenously setting
over the savage distance.
Did the earth just crack open within its core...?
An ungovernable fear
hastens—
up my spine
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Categories:
edvard, anxiety, dark, emotions, gothic,
Form: Ekphrasis
Categories:
edvard, beauty, character, extended metaphor,
Form: Epyllion
Categories:
edvard, humor,
Form: Epigram
Categories:
edvard, allegory, appreciation, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Romanticism
Categories:
edvard, beauty, confidence, happiness,
Form: Free verse
New Year's Edvard And Eve
.
Locked
mine duke
theirn digits
your camisole
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Categories:
edvard, romantic love, sexy, silence,
Form: Free verse
The Scream: Edvard Munch
fragility of reason ~ ululates upon brush strokes of despair
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Categories:
edvard, art, depression, perspective,
Form: Monoku
Ekphrasis of Edvard Munch's Bathing Man
Behold the bather astride the river,
resplendent in rainbow-dappled nudity
his sense of light and air and wetness
ebbs and flows like his emotions,
colors shift and swirl in response
to the universe of his creativity.
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Categories:
edvard, art, color, image,
Form: Ekphrasis
The Scream - Ekphrasis On An Edvard Munch Piece of Art
Oblong outlines of a soul
Stretched in elliptical misery
Redefines the perfect circle
To a breakable volatile tautness
Loosely cloaked in sheaths of epitonic blue
Draped upon the shrinking body to hide a terrified world
Dressed in swirling ominous patterns of anonymity
To be lost within the deepest abyss of fatal fear
Planted like a tenuous girder of iron truth
On a
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Categories:
edvard, fear,
Form: Ekphrasis
Edvard Munch, Jealousy
Edvard Munch
An Ekphrasis Stylized Poem of Jealousy
Oh, ancient Oden!
I summon your primitive hand.
Take this oiled brush I hold,
and order my strokes with your command.
With deep red, spilling like blood across the land,
she appears as the object of my affection,
nude and reaching toward a tree
as if to lure my enemy, with want
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Categories:
edvard, art, jealousy,
Form: Ekphrasis
Self-Portrait With Cigarette By Edvard Munch
The snow falls white in Norway
just like anywhere else in the world.
The snow falls white in Norway
like the smoke from a cigarette.
The blue mists lap at coat tails
only in a self-portrait in Norway.
Pale brown eyes shine, surprised to see you
only in a self-portrait in Norway.
One hand holding time itself, slipping.
One hand held firmly in the
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Categories:
edvard, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
The Death of Merat
I leave the auction sick, my mettle frayed
A ghost, I fear, in oil clutched near my side
No doubt, a ghost for which I've dearly paid!
How best to next proceed, I must decide
The painting I have bought portrays a man
laid out upon a bed as if he sleeps
A woman stands beside the low divan
Offhand, I'd guess
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Categories:
edvard, dark, death,
Form: Ekphrasis
Red House and Spruce By Edvard Munch
Red House and Spruce by Edvard Munch
Snug, in a blue bunting of hibernation,
Red cottage
In a clearing of indigo and ice spruce
That form ribs of protection from
From hues of ill winds,
As a leafless birch backbone
Spreads a protective circle,
Sentinels of secrets
Behind the hidden crimson door
When eventide’s crystal constellations
Of fallen cerulean white snows
Sleep
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Categories:
edvard, blue, house, red, snow,
Form: Ekphrasis
Munch On This - 'Love and Pain' 1895
At first glance ...
Amid turbulent strokes
and vivid hues,
eyes mesmerized by
maiden's molten-red mane—
Love and Pain
Gently kissing
her lover's nape
in tender embrace,
while Pain's
lurking specter
overshadows their
intimate space,
threatening Love's
fragile grace
Second glance ...
Gent's deathlike pallor
portrays a chilling
alternative motif.
Is love really her goal, or
is she nosferatu feasting
on a submissive soul?
Dark eyes reflect the
lurking specter's desire—
Vampire
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Categories:
edvard, art, love, pain, perspective,
Form: Ekphrasis
'separation' - the Art of Edvard Munch
When 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 the lonely heart so that it must dwell,
suffering in what
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Categories:
edvard, lost love,
Form: Ekphrasis
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