Animal Ekphrasis Poems

After stepping out of the forest river,
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HEROES IN EXILE
By Kyile Jacquin Carter  

waiting is about knowing
writing is about visions of self expression
identity is about place or time, Immigrants lives which...

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It looked lost and lonely, 
Probably searching for its kind, 
Will hope aid it to find? 
Its home seems to have been invaded. 

The tree...

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You offer me sanctuary, though I didn't ask
I don't understand but I greedily grasp
You hold me in comfort no matter my flaws
Slowly I settle, start...

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The Lion and the Gypsy

For some, life is simple in raw assertiveness,
With no disarmament of conscience, alertness.
Beneath a moonlit sky, a heartbeat from closed eyes,
The...

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Inspired by the painting:  'A Friend in Need' by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (dogs playing poker)

The acquisition of that winning ace
Will not be detectable on...

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 Bev Doolittle’s camouflage art is phenomenal

O snowy head of rock
with crevices, the shock
of feathery heads, the hosts
of many a flight that’s been

traversed o’er crags....

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Based on painting by Bev Doolittle: Woodland Encounter

American West in Camouflage

Two Indians* hide, in the birch forest,
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All the animals were in sync
Whispering, singing
And speaking with such ease

They rejoiced in the light
Of the fresh dawn
And the caress of the moon

They lingered in...

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Hare in the sky — supersonic planes.
One child waves, her brother sleeps on the saddle.
Reindeer, leopard and horsie - of course,
floating above the carousel.

A reasonable...

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 Greyhound but a vague puzzle piece
Included in this English School.
The cynophilist unearths fur
On the edge of the frame, the hunt
For the breed, the breadth...

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Might it be a pool or wishing well
with rainbow ripples round it wound
within an enchanted cosmic dell
of a fabulous world newfound—

or perhaps a spacetime passageway
that...

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Wings

A bear and a wolf
met in a tree
they both confessed
reincarnation
is a possibility...

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Franz Marc-
      animal expression of a blue rider...

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The birds sing as the clouds follow one-by-one and the sun shines bright with a rainbow that glows in and out and around it like...

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