Adventure Ekphrasis Poems

I am on an Isolated Airline flight, 747
sitting in first class 
with my carry-on bag
Looking out the window 
Viewing the horizon 
Seeing patches of clouds
In...

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THE SWING (by Jean-Honoré Fragonard)

I swing high up in the air,
Dressed with opulence and flair,
Smiling down at my lover,
Who's glad to nearby hover,
He takes his...

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The heart doesn't show it's beating from the outside looking in;
Those of the domestic violent also sometimes doesn't show it's wounds;
PAINTED DRIPPINGS OF RED
One of...

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Community isolation
     the void placing we made
among us to survive.

I was one to you
    In an exhibition, which...

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Flowering cashew tree
with atavic aromas
as rejuvenated souls
atoms that orbiting in brightness
carrying spectra to pleasure
when savoring the sweet and sour fruit
does imitating Babel glossolalia
at the distant...

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It is almost like it was just a bad dream 
All that hurt me a faded bubble 
I was broken 
I mean then in the...

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1
Bella
He
opened
the window-
in streamed his first
love
with
flowers,
dressed
in white-
she haunted his
art.

An Ekphrasis in lanterne  sequence on Marc Chagall
2.
FLAMING JUNE an ekphrasis
A
flimsy
negligee
betrays her round
shape-
an
honest
innocence
in becalmed deep
sleep.

After Frederick Leighton
3.
PERCEPTIONS
The
painter
creates...

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For every time I've failed,
For every time I've screwed up,
For every time I've said "I'm Sorry,"
And for every time I've not.
For every heart I've broken,
For...

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Goodbye.
Alone, and sad. He swings.
Fearing a future, dreading his past. 

What comes next? What happened?

His eyes full of a thousand years worth of the pain...

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To glance at the jagged hill is a dream
Just as I yearn to amble over its magma flow 
Like a million salmon swimming up my...

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TIME FLIES by Jeanette Jones 
based on PORTRAIT NO 9 
Morning at the Quay in Venice by Helen Allingham




TIME FLIES


Early still, I rise again. 
For...

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Based on Portrait No. 1, Blue and Green Music by Georgia O'Keeffe 1921

THE WATER, THE WAVE AND THE FLAME (Edited by Debbie Guzzi)

Against the wave,...

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LIFE

Royal banking, in the mist of dilemma. Money buy my instinct. Full defeat possession. Valley of misery. I sing the song of false hope. My...

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ACCIDENTS IN TIME and SPACE a Pollock Ekphrasis
A counterpoint to tease floating
paint in swirls and mounds full
of radiant energy and surprise,
an adventure for our eyes,the
texture...

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Time (Based of Hans Zimmer's Time)
Down the day, great heroes spent and spilt
An eternity of flight and fight and courage.
I hear them singing- but only...

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