Fishing MemoriesFishing 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
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
The Ravine of the Peyroulets - Vincent Van Gogh
Categories:
art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Automat - Edward Hopperleft 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
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
The Fire Within - Abstract by Lee J MorganDetermined 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
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
Resiliencetootsie 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
The Lovers - Marc Chagallif 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
Necronom IV 1976 H R Gigerthe 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
An AardvarkAn 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
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
Melancholy Atomic 1945 , Salvador DaliThe 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
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
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
Specific Types of Ekphrasis Poems
Read wonderful ekphrasis poetry on the following sub-topics:
art, love, monoku, nature, people
and more.
Definition | What is Ekphrasis in Poetry?