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An ekphrasis poem is a form of poetry concerning itself with the visual arts, artistic objects, and/or highly visual scenes, but there is more to ekphrasis. What is ekphrasis in poetry (complete definition)?

picasso maybe

give me strayed lines, dilated pupils I'm at one with our eye to eye moment let me brush my hair out of my face... to look at you I'm painted in ink, unchangeable more or less wholly...Read the rest...

The Yerres, Effect of Rain by Gustave Caillebotte

it's subjective whether it's interesting at all bye bye those that look no further than here nothing mesmerising will be said, cast iron on that it's more about breaking surface tension tiny pockets of vision that create a...Read the rest...

Goethe or The Metamorphosis of Plants Andre Masson

Too much to know, I just don't know it As I fumble around, just a humble poet Frustrated as I watch unfurl a show I just don't know it, too much to know Answers are near, in the...Read the rest...

Tulips and Forget me Nots Vanessa Luback

It's hard to know what chipped away Integral part or separate external stray It's all important, not just for show What chipped away, it's hard to know Always what lingers what has been That scene that sits...Read the rest...

Still Life by Marc Chagall

White is placed last, just as dark is first It's vision through glass it is not a curse Is there value in stillness? I'm glad you asked Just as dark is first, white is placed last Are the...Read the rest...

Gabriele Munter, Flowers and Fruit, 1949

It seems dark, though daisies are open I still see in colour, so I cannot be broken Smears and smudges all left a mark Though daisies are open, it seems dark Held in embrace, are those people so close I'm...Read the rest...

Like New Litchenstein first 10 minutes WIP

The not together strands that lead to demise But they are oh so beautiful through your eyes Place me gently so I'm never disturbed And I'll stay this way, all change curbed There was the moment that...Read the rest...

Lost In A Muse

A purpose within his heart as ...Read the rest...

Dancing on the Shore Edvard Munch

our joy creates spaces in the earth looking closely shows all those cut out hollows made by something else the moon sears away...Read the rest...

The Listening Room Magritte

flash forward to the rot all perfection spoils in a myriad of ways a perishable item should not be idolised nor allowed to take over a space for a moment though ...Read the rest...

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite Fairy Bridget and Kookaburra

it matters to not be able to tell where you end and comfort begins seamlessly held by another with nature to rest within we're...Read the rest...

Stepping Through The Door

Peering In the grand theater of unspoken dreams abound, The actor teaming - his heart pounding Each word placed profound !! Of garb exquisite Arrogant fashions- proclaim Siterical lines of mockery She must portray... Inner feeling spill forth A renowed...Read the rest...

Fish Paul Klee 1925

It's deep blue, we're submerged Thoughts are bubbles, feelings purged It's short term memory, life span Repeating circles, since time began We're wrong place, right plane Shafts of dark, but light remains Labrynthine world, yet open space Blind eye staring blind eye...Read the rest...

Debut

Debut For now and then Awards of triumph Come stunning, evolving dreams.... And all the while of self belief Moments of denial scream For rain drops roll- of joyous tear Compiling moments rise drawing near If one could dream Where doubt -...Read the rest...

Where Are a We Going?

I am resigned. I was once full of neoteric life, fresh as morning dew. Blank as a hardened sponge waiting for that morning, to soak in all this...Read the rest...

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