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Love Ekphrasis Poems

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

CREATION OF MAN Section Sistine Chapel Ceiling 1511 -MICHELANGELO

 do not be afraid

                  GO ! ...

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Categories: allegory, art, character, creation,

MONA LISA : Leonardo da Vinci : 1503

 enigmatically enlightened 
                   embodied essence of...

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Categories: allegory, allusion, art, color,

Apollo and Daphne by Bernini A collaboration with Di11y Da11y



We start at the end, with the warmth of his breath on her skin
Baulked by proximity, he never knew how to begin
A golden-tainted obsession, bitterly...

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Categories: art, perspective,

Apollo and Daphne by Bernini - A Collaboration with David Kavanagh

We start at the end, with the warmth of his breath on her skin
Baulked by proximity, he never knew how to begin
A golden-tainted obsession, bitterly...

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Categories: art,

BLUE NUDE : Pablo Picasso: 1902

she  rose from depths of his despair
followed an artistic youthful 
             ...

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Categories: allegory, allusion, art, bereavement,

Ekphrasis on The Godfather's Theme

In shadow, he stands~
not as a man but as an echo;
His bow,a ladder to unknown sanctuary;
In his hand, draws breath of strings 
like a promise...

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Categories: appreciation, music, mystery,

Twelve Sunflowers in a Vase

 twelve of us he choose to paint
    sons of Jacob in an earthen 
jar so sturdy
plonked us with vehemence
directed by neuronal...

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Categories: allegory, art, character, color,

Katsushika Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, circa 1832

your love ~ my muse
your voice ~ my prose
            s l i
                p
                     s    and sails in the sky ~
stroking the silhouette
   ...

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Categories: humanity, life, muse,

Our Time Together

Our Time Together

hand in hand we stroll
window shopping our wishes
together on the couch trading laughs
as we guess the Jeopardy questions
making small talk over a dinner
we...

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Categories: love,

The Lovers - Marc Chagall

if I were a drop in the ocean
         you are the embrace of home -
  ...

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Categories: art,

Ekphrasis on The Painter's Daughters

They sit~
not as muses,
but as morning light caught in linen~
one leaning gently into the other’s calm,
as if sisterhood were
a soft hush between breaths.

The elder holds...

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Categories: appreciation, art,

Melancholy Atomic 1945 , Salvador Dali

The sky is a Luciferian estuary 
rolling and roaring in crimson flames, 
a twisted design of detonated debris,
like splitting sighs
from internal implosions,
raining fragments of the...

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Categories: dark, emotions, gothic,

The Nightmare - Henry Fuseli

In vibrations of virtual whispers,
I found her under a satin sunset,
chained to an eerie entity, digging, 
its claws into her silken spirit.
Yet behind her dim...

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Categories: art, betrayal, lost love,

The Kiss, 1907 by Gustav Klimt

f e e l me 
like sonnets of sunrise
      infused with 
clementine cadence 
as I am the golden essence
in your...

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Categories: love, romance, romantic,

Pine Trees against a Red Sky with Setting Sun, 1889 by Vincent van Gogh

heart ~ a wild collage
of gold-smeared skies
pressed within 
       oil-washed layers
of breathing
       ...

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Categories: angst, imagery,