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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.


Premium Member 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,



Premium Member 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,

Premium Member 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: art, betrayal, lost love,

Premium Member 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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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anxiety,

Premium Member 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,



Premium Member 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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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: art, music,

Premium Member 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,

Premium Member 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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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: art, tree,

Premium Member 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,

Premium Member 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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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: betrayal,

Premium Member 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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© Sara Jama  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: art, deep, imagery, poetry,

Premium Member 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,

Premium Member 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,

Premium Member UKIYO-E SCENES
a source
of
  inspiration
the
    visible
artistic
        voice

natural 
       sensitivities
of
 ...

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Categories: appreciation, art,

Premium Member 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,


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