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Art Ekphrasis Poems

These Art Ekphrasis poems are examples of Ekphrasis poems about Art. These are the best examples of Ekphrasis Art poems written by international poets.

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,
   ...

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Categories: art,

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...

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Categories: art, emotions, inspirational, literature,

The Nightmare - Henry Fuseli

In vibrations of virtual whispers,
I found her under a satin sunset,
chained to an eerie entity, digging, 
its claws into her silken spirit.
Yet behind her dim...

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Categories: art, betrayal, lost love,

The Appendage

Art & music therapy 
provides a creative outlet 
for expressing feelings of anxiety, 
helping us visualize  
process our worries
I also find poetry
therapy as well...

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Categories: anxiety,

This Progress - Tino Sehgal

Notes: 

This poem is related to the performance, impermanent art "This Progress"  by Tino Sehgal - a choreographed conversation in the Guggenheim Art Museum...

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Categories: art,

Protagonist of George Harrison

Written: May 5th, 2025, for contest by Brian Strand

Painting by Peter Doig. A concise abstract on Abbey Road and its pivotal moment.   He...

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Categories: art, music,

Stunning

red palms, white sun
leaves are religiously green

red is raw
the canvas soaked

is it fire, blood
or passion

the sun vertiginous
lava alive

romantic sun experience
soaking up cataclysmic rays

raise the temperature
hang...

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Categories: art, imagery,

Olena Babak's artwork - Spring's Easel explodes Painting Shades

Written: May 03, 2025, for contest by Brian Strand

Olena Babak's artwork Spring's Easel Explodes Painting Shades


( It is more convenient to read the poem while...

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Categories: art, tree,

Shirt Front and Fork - Hans Arp

Sculpture - Shirt Front and Fork

so much    takes root -
 that's the game
   beneath the surface
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Categories: art, bullying,

Casualty Of Your Cruelty

The radiant shine leaves your aurora
dimming ever so quickly,
as in northern regions you are—borealis 
falling into the southernmost Sahara 
negative gradients descend—australis
The gloss of moral...

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Categories: betrayal,

The Persistence of Memory Painting by Salvador Dali - Collaboration with Dilly Dally

Caustic memories dissolve on my tongue
Lingering tastes of battery acid and nicotine  
Cause me to choke on putrid saliva.  
Staring at melting walls,...

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Categories: art, deep, imagery, poetry,

The Persistence of Memory, Collaboration with Sara Jama

Caustic memories dissolve on my tongue
Lingering tastes of battery acid and nicotine  
Cause me to choke on putrid saliva.  
Staring at melting walls,...

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Categories: art,

Undertow

We met on the seam 
between two drownings,
his cuff snagged in the kelp, 
my mouth lined with moss.
He grinned 
like a man who'd forgotten the...

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Categories: art, dance,

UKIYO-E SCENES

a source
of
  inspiration
the
    visible
artistic
        voice

natural 
       sensitivities
of
 ...

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Categories: appreciation, art,

Unknown

Unknown

a wooden statue
carved by unknown hands perhaps
an E.T. worshipped
by an ancient native tribe
who witnessed unknown aliens
...

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Categories: art,