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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.

Through a Tiffany Window

USPS Stamps Contest 7-24-25 Stamp Chosen American Treasures Louis Comfort Tiffany 2006  Tiffany believed stained glass was a spiritual experience.
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Through a Tiffany Window

Touched by...

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Categories: art, beauty, morning,

Folded in Ink and Stars

A banner flutters in miniature pride,
stars frozen mid-waltz, stripes folding
like gentle waves—
a tiny chorus of red, white, blue.

I imagine the seam of that paper flag,
its...

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Categories: freedom,

A Painting by Van Gogh

I happen to take Art classes in oils. My teacher directed me to Van Gogh's Flores: 

I am not sure what it's called. But I...

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Categories: adventure, appreciation, art, beautiful,

Taj Mahal : 1631 to 1648 by order Shah Jahan : Ekphrasis

Form : Double Tetractys 


love

expressed

surreal 

heart opens mind

queen  mumtaz  essence  eternal  captured 

embodied geometry world wonder 
 
shah voiced sacred

masterpiece 

power...

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Categories: allusion, art, color, creation,

The Indigo Crest - On the Commemorative Stamp of - Purple Rain By Prince

Written July 14, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori 
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So tiny, yet so vast:...

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Categories: appreciation, star,

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,

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,

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,

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,

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,

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,

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,