Love Ekphrasis Poems

if I were a drop in the ocean
         you are the embrace of home -
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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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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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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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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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heart ~ a wild collage
of gold-smeared skies
pressed within 
       oil-washed layers
of breathing
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The radiant shine leaves your aurora
dimming ever so quickly,
as in northern regions you are—borealis 
falling into the southernmost Sahara 
negative gradients descend—australis
The gloss of moral...

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Moonlit Shipwreck At Sea, 1901 Thomas Moran (1837-1926)


A misty memory
Touch a bleeding heart
Through a moonlit beam

Peering from storm clouds
A light of hope
Revealing a story
To late...

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trapped in skeletal arms of the wolverine forest,
I crave rose-scents from the corpse crescent,
   seeing through the portal of pained pupils,
written with cinder-gold...

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Fur bounds, through the cottony breeze, to me.
On a warm, summery day,
the scent of dog resounds.

A wet nose, commiserate smile and hug.
Against my skin, he...

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note the nothingness of the tag
yet so much time was spent gazing,
observing each inhalation, exhalation ~
each held breath ~
not disturbing her rest.

love learns no more.

she...

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Blood Moon

I gaze at the full moon
now bloody, weeping red tears
a symbol of our sacrifices
and the love we lost
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 Where beauty 
         meets passion
    the scarlet
of compassion
 the emblem
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Is there a word for when you love something because it is horrible
and it's horrible because it's true,
and specifically, because it's you?

That's why my chosen...

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She passed away upon a day
Where silence lie in sullen vein 
Where whispered notions plant a seed 
Of all the words penned in belief
Hoping a...

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