Ekphrasis Poems | Ekphrasis Examples

This isn't ink — it's blossom breath, A message from a paper's depth. That this is a blush pink breeze, Not just a standing tree. A story that narrates how spring once paused, When petals fell without a cause. A square of paper telling us, Its quiet bloom still speaks to us....

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An American legendary comedian and actress Now smiles on new stamp of USPS A long-ife fellow born in Illinois With perpetual charm and glamor, oh boy! Betty Marion Ludden-- her real name Her screen role and contributions brought her fame First woman who produced the American national TV show A sitcom star with various awards, still to mention below. For almost seven decades...

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Disco Music Strobe light looks like moon-sun. Halo lights of red, blue, yellow, green. He wears classic Saturday Night Fever white. She has a white flower in her hair, head and hips swivel; one-strapped red dress. He points with hands over head. Ballroom floor bittersweet-blue. Celebration of disco music. I was dressed in strapless purple. Burned my bra. This stamp doesn’t nearly catch the falderal - not the...

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O moon, the blood-rose pearl of my aching soul, the ghostly seer of hourglass woes ~ heed these wistful words ~ forgive the dreadful quivers between cacophonous quiescence, tremors within lungs of lament, spears of piercing p a i n ... Read through...

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Betty White lived so long, they had all kinds of names for her. She managed to stay America's sweetheart for a century by being kind and funny. A heart of gold worn on her sleeve, she could make everyone smile. Her sweet face is now on a stamp while the tributes continue coming. Her curls sweet and eyes a'glitter but it's her smile...

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This stamp brings visions to our eyes Of years gone by, in summer's skies. He left to join our freedom's sound; And band of brothers, there he found. To guard our freedom, his thoughts turned- For love of country surely burned; With comrades joined, to then unfold a unity of strength untold. Two hundred fifty years this year Marine Corps- still, to us so...

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I feel it smoothly, gliding freely, Liquid fluidity surging. Not a fraction of too much friction, An undulating path followed effortlessly. Movement and balance allowing continuous flow. A sense of harmony as the lubrication guides easily. Embracing depth with no distraction. No tension felt as if all melts with fluid energy. A transition of like particles melding without abrasive motion. A sleek silky transition...

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I remember it very well. It was before the birth of email. It was a real 'show and tell, and It rings in my heart like a bell. Mankind has always found bigger And better ways to communicate. Over time and space, such avenues Have been greatly excellerated. In the early 70's, cell phones were large and rare, but landline phones were everywhere. Those landline...

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The fire was an obvious choice of landscape art for the painter to accentuate the effect between moonlight and smoke filled sky so dark. A canvas illuminating the power of vivid red hot to stark. Depicted the conditions, unbearable and the growing flames are fanned by the breeze. The artist gives life to the power of fire creating...

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Moving like moonlight I am the OG silver surfer Fleshwalkers, Dry Guys, Land Livers, Have been around for, What, 300,000 years? Try 20 million years. We eat stingrays. Literally. For breakfast. I have a 360 degree field of vision. What's directly in front of me? Don't ask. Listen, Humanoids, I'm delivering this plea To your nearest post office. Luckily I found a stamp With my photo on it. The plea...

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Garden Delights, a set of stamps from 2024. features stamps in which there are different scenes of four. A ruby-throated hummingbird takes great delight in hovering near a flower, each a pretty sight: A zinnia, cigar flower, a spotted touch-me-not and the fourth – a sunflower, which I like a lot. Oh, Sunflower, with large florets center, be prepared to meet the hummingbird approaching you with her nectar sweet. ...

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To have your picture on the face of a stamp, Is a honor reserved for the ones who cultivated change Among the mèlange of inspiring faces, Lays the face of someone who served on the basis, Of freedom Behind a small black and white picture, A mighty face lays With eyes of a fighter, eloquent hair, neatly parted The words, Black white Trust danger Defiance hope All...

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To list all of Betty White’s accomplishments, besides The Golden Girls, I’d have to write a book. I’m thrilled that now, for just seventy-three cents, I can place her image on an envelope. Take a look! (Notes) Every blond hair is perfectly in place. As always, she wears a genuine smile. A hint of mischief graces her...

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Gate or Gates 7-1-25 Based on Rodin’s Gates of Hell. It struck me that Rodin’s gates are closed which made me think of a pastor who said he would want to set up a mission at the gates of hell, that maybe, there might be one last chance of forgiveness. Agree or...

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What tale this stamp of time can tell in silence of a world once held, as captive by this forceful man, with death intent to conquer lands. We know not much except it’s found. Its worth would probably astound and have the cherished owner fear, Who would value this as “dear?” In simple plain coincidence it’s passed throughout the ages since and now by pure...

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