History Ekphrasis Poems

I'll buy the drinks, that's all that I'm saying
All evening long, don't think about paying
This speed dating lark, it has me in bits
You talk, I...

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HEROES IN EXILE
By Kyile Jacquin Carter  

waiting is about knowing
writing is about visions of self expression
identity is about place or time, Immigrants lives which...

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Cleopatra

   “How good it feels to stroke the finest linen
and to know that yarn spun from the drop spindle
came by planters, harvesters, and...

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Inspired by the painting - Jealousy
by artist Edvard Munch, 1895
*+*+*+*
I considered myself bard of your heart
Now I feel as if we're falling apart
I saw you...

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What do I know of your world?
I read about your people on the subway train,
To marvel at how so much was lost,
All because a handful...

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Moaning Mona
Oh! Oh!
Oh no,
moaning &
complaining;
her draping
archaic.
Drop a little off
the shoulder,
Mona, baby.
Show a bit
of cleavage.
Best to smile
and wink,
to stay abreast
with modern society.
Mona, don’t
grow cold.
Keep your clothes...

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Inspired by the enormous lithograph (a feat in itself) by
Robert Rauschenberg, entitled Sky Garden (Stoned Moon), 1969. The Stoned Moon series was created after a...

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Van Gogh's Yellow House

On the corner of a cobblestone street, a yellow house stands,
and nearby, a bistro to eat in, and a café where friends...

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The application to be a psychonaut
 had been filled out and submitted
 in my childhood.
  My thoughts meandered
 around the brain that paid host...

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Anglo-Saxon rulers were interned in the Orford castle.
Its polygonal edges secure the town's harbor from dazzle.
Many tallies of feral men caught in fisher webs hassle.
In...

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Auschwitz   
      1.3 million people sent there
          1.1 million...

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in the dust
       of
           butterfly wings

short stories of 
...

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Like no one before, nor since
 you painted that starry night in oils
  superimposing your life story.

I feel I know this idyllic village
 blanketed...

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a passion for nature
          wanderings concentrated
in a 
    singleness of purpose
in a
 ...

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hidden intentions
forseen      from afar
set in the dark
tracks in the stone
to posterity through cloisters
with empty streams
a desert
    ...

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