Girl Ekphrasis Poems

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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warhol's marilyn had everything
but just a flaw...
she  was ever  so unsure
hopper's lady
of the empy chair...
with such  sadness in her stare
michelangelo's girl 
..less...

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A piece of my soul

Who am I?
A Muse or a Poet?
A Lyre or a Melody?
Or just a plain girl?
What do I see
A dream or a...

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I'm not there to see
but I know I'd be grabbed
even from this distance of 3336 miles
I feel it

there's an enormity in the words
'Four Darks in...

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She warms my heart
I'm not sure how
She lights a fuse
And soon.. kerpow!

My love it swells
Her voice 
Like angels' clanging bells

She wakes me up
I feel alive
Her...

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VIRGINAL GIRL
begin the beguine..
Make your music mine
LAUGHING GIRL
joy's outflow-from eyes aglow
GIRL WITH EARRING
a look of love-
into eternity's mirror
LACEMAKING GIRL
intricate detail
patient design-
portrait of time
MUSIC GIRL
when the...

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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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the tears blend into the background
my sadness in the foreground

shadows so minimal
   I shouldn't fall into them
   
the space around me...

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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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Anxiety
Painting by Edvard Munch

With each stroke 
an Artist of Anxiety 
portrays his own demons through daring colors of orange fire and blood dripping fear

Perched at...

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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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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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Her heart is heavy with despair, her soul abandoned
Unruly tangled locks modestly shroud her face and flesh,
Yet her naked rawness, a voyeur’s ideal conception
Yielding to...

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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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