Dark Ekphrasis Poems

I do not wish to proffer an explanation 
What I wish to do is stand still a moment
Whilst you now observe me

I have this vantage...

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"Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. There is a...

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when you are soaked wet through
        ¿is that the bones of you visible?
   do we need...

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Miro impulsively hurled his paint
making spots&splatters quite quaint
Action painting upon the dark blue
in metaphor&symbols so new
Enough to make the viewer faint...

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I am on an Isolated Airline flight, 747
sitting in first class 
with my carry-on bag
Looking out the window 
Viewing the horizon 
Seeing patches of clouds
In...

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Standing on my head
looking up at the trees
and the sparkling sky

When it’s dark I don’t see
the ship float by nor
the tsunami sea

Upside-down women
on either side
of...

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Buildings blue
pink, yellow, orange
and white in
a row, and it is
snowing.

At midnight
they seem to hover
in the dark,
and snow glows
in the sky
and on the ground.

No telling
if they...

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strapped to the mast, I recite it so
to show what I saw, I had to know
  no dramatisation of emotion took place
  ...

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No
mirror
of the soul-
Archimboldo's
art,
more
satire
by cartoon
on nature's still
life

The
old man
dies a death,
youth arrives with
Spring-
with
a blaze
of passion
Summer takes a 
Fall-
and 
decays-
in Winter
dark ages
call


Inspired by Archimboldo's Seasons paintings...

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I stand alone, though I see another
Frequenting dark corners shouting 'other'
Cloaked in shadow, or a shadow become
Out run, out run, out run, out run

We dance...

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I leave the auction sick, my mettle frayed
A ghost, I fear, in oil clutched near my side
No doubt, a ghost for which I've dearly paid!
How...

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At first glance ...
Amid turbulent strokes
and vivid hues,
eyes mesmerized by
maiden's molten-red mane—
Love and Pain

Gently kissing
her lover's nape
in tender embrace,
while Pain's
lurking specter
overshadows their
intimate space,
threatening Love's
fragile grace

Second...

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the unheard-of starry night
subdued in colors
no bright
swirls
no blaze of fire
but a mist of mysterious night
reflected stars in flight
textured strokes
dark land
uncertain shapes
essence of the night
broken by...

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Only a loving parent can feel,                   ...

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Inspired by the painting Night in Saint Cloud painted by Edvard Munch (1890) following the death of his father. His father, Christian Munch, was a...

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