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Ekphrasis Poems | Ekphrasis Examples

Premium Member Fishing Memories
Fishing Memories my father and I early in the morning our favorite together time sun peeping above the horizon many times, we caught no fish who cares...

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Categories: fishing, memory,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member LADY IN GREEN -MACKE
the blank face of loneliness. it caught my mood spoke aloud this unique moment in time captured in paint a butterfly moment on young frozen faces sepia images posed pictures asking me where are you? in scenes left for imagination to fill in &join ...

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Categories: appreciation, art,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member The Ravine of the Peyroulets - Vincent Van Gogh
the land is formed I watch on - still as time ...

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Categories: art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Automat - Edward Hopper
left until after dark no friend would sit in those hours so, tell me, what am I a thousand excuses will explain as your actions and words...

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Categories: art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member KINETICISM
phenomena light vibrant frozen frills of layered energy exhilerating diintegrating dramas pervasive impulsive spheres scrawled quasars conscious wellsprings of evolved entanglements OPEN FORM in lowercase...

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Categories: appreciation,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member The Fire Within - Abstract by Lee J Morgan
Determined energy encapsulates what smolders silently inside. Quiet resilience produce a bold, inspiring presence that space opens wide. With a colour gamut of profound earthy tone, Striking fiery reds and chilling white hot lashes stand alone. Morgan's painting suggests the perception of dancing flames to a beat, Within the vision, to create a physical feeling of blistering heat....

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Categories: fire,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Chess Ahoy!
Chess Ahoy! Upon an ivory-blue ocean, oil pastel paints the canvas aboard the deck floats, buoyed surfing foamy shores a blurred realism hoarding its cargo— cobalt sea glass squares in place, chiseled chess pieces ride the tide ebbing and flowing Sent are your gallant knights lowly pawns the King decrees— God save the Queen! ...

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Categories: art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Resilience
tootsie roll of a sunflower wind and rain drove down its l e m o n y petals baby’s breath s i g h s verdant blades of grass with c o u r a g e ...

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Categories: fairy, flower, imagery, rain,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member The Lovers - Marc Chagall
if I were a drop in the ocean you are the embrace of home - all-encompassing obliterating emptiness submerging and saving in an instant exist with me, I beg you ...

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Categories: art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Necronom IV 1976 H R Giger
the ghost of science, born of blasphemy ~ a fossilized fallacy, seized from the metallic heart of Mars, seeks light amidst night-terrors like an alien sculpted from artificial accolades, an embryo stuck in the interstellar state of becoming, stitched within radioactive ribs beneath moonless skies, when wolves of the eclipsed howl, filling the illusive air with hypnotic lies, as if the world chose to recycle ...

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Categories: creation, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member An Aardvark
An Aardvark an aardvark is a curious animal that passes himself off as a mammal with rabbet ears and pig snout he is unusual looking no doubt on ants and termites, he does feed but not so much on centipedes he hides by day in the ground and comes out at night to walk around the aardvark is an odd looker for sure but for...

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Categories: animal,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Ekphrasis on The Painter's Daughters
They sit~ not as muses, but as morning light caught in linen~ one leaning gently into the other’s calm, as if sisterhood were a soft hush between breaths. The elder holds a silence far beyond her years, her fingers a quiet shield over the other’s fluttering world. She is stillness, composed, watchful~ a portrait of care before language names it. The younger rests wide-eyed, soul blooming, a child...

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Categories: appreciation, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Melancholy Atomic 1945 , Salvador Dali
The sky is a Luciferian estuary rolling and roaring in crimson flames, a twisted design of detonated debris, like splitting sighs from internal implosions, raining fragments of the past: matchbox memories piercing through suffocating silence as time tortures the mind with flashbacks of floating fragility… O invisible moonlight, pour me a purple potion to erase the pain behind perplexed pupils. I no longer desire to be cast in...

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Categories: dark, emotions, gothic,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Collar III - Louise Giovanelli
Cover the clavicle with the collar, urgent, decisive, a signal of intent. Insufficient means of transformation aren't new. It's the operating room for the untrained, problem to solution with just a thin veil, a change of outward appearance. You're the fixer and the fixed. Blue veins are a...

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Categories: art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Art and Literature
Art and Literature Through time Of truth Prevail Winds set Sail To blow a dream Shown of light Upon the eyes Of the curious mind Inspiration A subtle whim Pondering A moment To relive Caught in Time A strand Once held A poet's dream To the world Revealed ...

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Categories: art, emotions, inspirational, literature,
Form: Ekphrasis

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