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Family Ekphrasis Poems

These Family Ekphrasis poems are examples of Ekphrasis poems about Family. These are the best examples of Ekphrasis Family poems written by international poets.

Reflections of Love

Now we have reached the winter of our lives
It’s good to look through memory archives 
Reliving precious moments we have shared
Since the magical day that...

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Categories: appreciation, joy, love,

The Holy Stretch

His silhouette lines up with his preacher stretch.
He points with avid attention to the throne of God.
Though he stands, his skinny knees are bent.
He’s in...

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Categories: christian,

Dreaming Land

DREAMING LAND
By
Kyile Jacquin Carter

Salt rice pot dog cat logs
Hope scotch rum, apples wheat drum
Bees sticky sweet, flowers smell nice allergies
Eggs beans protein, hens lay chickens
Toast...

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Categories: angel, art, beautiful, blue,

Sick Girl

 
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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Categories: art,

The Death of Merat

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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Categories: dark, death,

The Sick Child

Only a loving parent can feel,                   ...

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Categories: child, mom, pain, sick,

Portrait of a Man Suffering Delusions of Military Rank 1822

Inspired by the painting 'Portrait of a Man Suffering Delusions of Military Rank' by Theodore Gericault circa 1822 which was painted as a series for...

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Categories: art,

Violin and Guitar

countless years of toil took toll on his health,
                ...

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Categories: loneliness, music,

Bleak In Winter's Cold

Except for the snow, it’s a monochromatic scene
The pond is frozen to a reflecting mirror finish,
In the fields there is not a speck of green...

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Categories: perspective, seasons, winter,

Approaching Winter In the Urals

Granite outcroppings sparkle like gems
Leading the eye to a neatly-hidden village
In the shadow of distant purple mountains,
And beyond to higher peaks snow-capped.
Over all the pastoral...

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Categories: inspirational, nature, places, seasons,

Impressions Thru the Glass Ceiling

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

with
  ...

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Categories: art, tribute,

Sand In a Bottle Art

into a tiny clear glass bottle,
about the width of a thumb,
through its narrow top,
through a long tapered neck,
he pours fine coloured sand,
from small glass tubes,
quickly...

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Categories: arabic, art, beautiful,

A Truly Scrumptious Feast

Mesmerised 
My eyes are glued
I take in every detail
His sea	
His sky
His movement 
I hear the sounds
Pervade the air
As if myself
As if I’m there
I’m standing back
So...

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Categories: appreciation, art, sea, tribute,

Love Note

You left early without a goodbye
I miss the sweet missives 
Those feelings tried to deny
My heart perfect way to express.

Love note every day enlightens the...

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Categories: desire, family, first love,

Apples Bring Hearts Home

Ekphrastic: Nature Morte Aux Pommes
Painting by Alfred Sisley

Red, gold apples lay
Crispy, crunchy picked that day
Mama's orchard farm

Paring with her knife
Her son brought home his new...

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Categories: family, farm, fruit, husband,