Art Ekphrasis Poems

The fire was an obvious choice of landscape art for the painter to accentuate the effect between moonlight and smoke filled sky so dark.
A canvas...

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The  challenges of Ray Stebbing's TETRACTYS form are

A.each line of 5  is required 'to stand on its own ' 
B.the poem to express...

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  “Sweet is my sleep, but more to be mere stone,
so long as ruin and dishonour reign ;
to bear nought, to feel nought, is...

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persuasive     “    “      “      “   ...

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 do not be afraid

                  GO ! ...

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 enigmatically enlightened 
                   embodied essence of...

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We start at the end, with the warmth of his breath on her skin
Baulked by proximity, he never knew how to begin
A golden-tainted obsession, bitterly...

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When eventide comes to enfold the light
Cerulean haze slither into the spiraling sky
While starlight speckled midnight's dainty face 
   'Neath the cascade of...

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she  rose from depths of his despair
followed an artistic youthful 
             ...

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 twelve of us he choose to paint
    sons of Jacob in an earthen 
jar so sturdy
plonked us with vehemence
directed by neuronal...

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Our Time Together

hand in hand we stroll
window shopping our wishes
together on the couch trading laughs
as we guess the Jeopardy questions
making small talk over a dinner
we...

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kitsch
               crowded
         ...

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 the blank face
    of loneliness.
it caught my mood
  spoke aloud 

this unique moment 
in time 
captured
   in paint
a
butterfly...

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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...

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The sisters calmly sit~
not as muses,
but as morning light caught in linen~
one leaning gently into the other’s calm,
as if sisterhood were
just a dream.

The elder holds...

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