Art Ekphrasis Poems

We could live or be lost for all eternity
in the flutter of REM,
waking only to retrofit the pieces
into cohesive narrative,
to be forgotten again
in less than...

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    mid song 
        yet almost lost to longing 
   methods of the...

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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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The 10 most obvious things about this drawing: 

1) dark circles
2) border
3) a divide
4) the artist's name 
5) it's off-centre
6) haze
7) smudges 
8) creases
9) light...

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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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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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The devil holds melancholy hostage,
and the weight of their stare crushes.

   Lungs hold air until it rusts insides;
   searing pain hovers...

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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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I know you are there
      just as I know I exist
    that is the point it all...

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