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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.


Premium Member The Face of War, 1941, Salvador Dali
O moon,
   the blood-rose pearl
            of my aching soul,
the ghostly seer of...

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Categories: angst, metaphor, poetry,



Premium Member Marine Corps USPS Stamp
This stamp brings visions to our eyes
Of years gone by, in summer's skies.
He left to join our freedom's sound;
And band of brothers, there he found.

To...

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Categories: tribute,

Premium Member Eisenhower Postage Stamp
I remember it very well.
It was before the birth of email.
It was a real 'show and tell, and
It rings in my heart like a bell.

Mankind...

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Categories: history,

Premium Member The Gates of Hell
Gate or Gates 7-1-25  Based on Rodin’s Gates of Hell.  It struck me that Rodin’s gates are closed which made me think of...

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Categories: forgiveness, life,

Premium Member The Hitler Stamp
What tale this stamp of time can tell
in silence of a world once held,
as captive by this forceful man,
with death intent to conquer lands.

We know...

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Categories: history,



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,

Premium Member 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,

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,

Premium Member 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,

Premium Member 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,

Premium Member 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,

Premium Member Ekphrasis on The Painter's Daughters
The sisters calmly sit~
not as muses,
but as morning light caught in linen~
one leaning gently into the other’s calm,
as if sisterhood were
just a dream.

The elder holds...

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Categories: appreciation, art,

Premium Member 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,


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