Child Ekphrasis Poems

Life and Death in two separated clusters, Klimt draws conflicts.
The serenity of his cycle of life is bright in pure color, he depicts.
A modern dance...

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Poverty and hunger are bedfellows.~ The Poet~ 

Alluring, pleading
Yet it will burn,
Pangs of hunger
Immanent yearn.
Desperate child 
So forlorn
For the poverty 
To which she was born.
Minds...

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She wore an aura of light
and bent over a sewing machine.
Through thick lenses she peered
at every stitch created by her touch.

She didn’t say for whom
she...

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It's nothing, the tear can be wiped away
The emotion neatly swept aside today
Discreetly dealt with, it's alright
I cried out my eye colour during my plight
The...

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"Inspired by  The Sick Child by Edward Munch 1907  Oils on Canvas." The Poet

Motif etched first then done in hues of green,
Light embracing...

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The painting of "The Sick Child" by Edvard Munch (1863-1944)
was painted in 1907, oil on canvas, 46.4 inches by  47.2 inches
or 3.8 feet...

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THE SICK CHILD-EDVARD MUNCH

Ghostly downpour upon not the sick,
but the sick at heart - a child’s mother.
Bittersweet tangle of red - patient’s hair,
dresser, caretaker’s hands....

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Inspired by “The Sick Child” painting by Edvard Munch

A pale face, all happiness drained out! 
green and auburn lines - vertical and horizontal, 
swirl around...

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Steely needles stab and scratch at solid rock
Over and again – etching there her lines and curves. 
Painting his love and despair onto the cold...

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Only a loving parent can feel,                   ...

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Whiskers That Free

Inspired by the painting Magdalena Ventura with Her Husband and Son by Jusepe de Ribera, 1631.

The painting shows a bearded lady with her...

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When conflicts raise its ugly head real soon, 
our nations won’t inevitably swoon;
a time that real détente and peace attune.	
Some people still record the slights...

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One little sidestep off the beaten track, 
Is a colorful garden of dazzling shades,
With blood red geraniums of scintillating hue
Interspersed by those of white and...

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OSKAR & ALMA
The
only
child they had-
was their game of
love...

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The Lion and the Gypsy

For some, life is simple in raw assertiveness,
With no disarmament of conscience, alertness.
Beneath a moonlit sky, a heartbeat from closed eyes,
The...

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