Beach Ekphrasis Poems

stranded on the beach
a wash of sand-orange blue-
brushmarks lost from view

colour gives away
in signature vivid hues-
picturesque and new...

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Only a loving parent can feel,                   ...

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EASTER DINNER

they liked the one behind me
the teal and black checkerboard
its sparkling tiles on the diagonal
red, yellow, blue, pink pillows
on sofas and chair

the sunrise was...

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Fishing Boats On The Beach at Les Saintes - Marie’s-de-la-Mer

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from a distance, clouds gently float
like cotton candies of varied hues
from light pastels of lilac and cerulean
intermingling with silky azure skies

hazy colours mirrored on the...

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old tracks
 to
      the water edge
  a
    thatched cottage
a river a harbour a boat

with
  ...

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you&I
   in half deserted streets
lets go,then
    linger awhile
time
    to wonder
       ...

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I float in an aquamarine idyll; 
a bird soaring in shallows 
while hearing translucent echoes,
hovering pastel ripples
reminiscent of cobalt depths 
carried on shy currents
to an...

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*Inspired by Photo

There is a fire in the sky
Behind swirling clouds passing by
Igniting the ocean below
The sun is spreading a golden glow

The soft sand sifts...

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Two Beach Strolling Sisters Discussing Their Savior

This was his virtue; that with head and heart  
He saw life sanely, from all mist apart, 
and...

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On
the strand
in moonlight-
abstract at first
sight


Moonlight beach by Spurrier...

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Maiden alone on the misty beach
Dressed in fine voile like fabric and hat
Is your desire for your sailor a miraculous feat
Wishing him home and close...

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On
the beach,
ebb & flow-
with no place to
go


Anthony Gormley's installation Another place


http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/articles/2005/07/05/art_antony_gormley_feature.sht
ml...

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Flotsam
and jetsam,
in abstraction-
stranded in the painter's 
mind's eye


Inspired by John Pipers Beach object 1937 a construction.

http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=-
1&workid=11931&searchid=false&roomid=false&tabview=text&texttype=8...

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On
South shore,
Long Island-
Manhattan at
play.

Ekphrasis -Beach Umbrellas at Blue Point by Glackens...

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