Memory Ekphrasis Poems

nothing really holds us in place
  and I'm not sure where we go to
    when we rear up
  then some...

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Paul Gaugin simplicitiste
also an art theorist
He suggests painting from memory
of 'plein air' was uncomplimentary...

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Now we have reached the winter of our lives
It’s good to look through memory archives 
Reliving precious moments we have shared
Since the magical day that...

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delicately I dream
embodied elegance 
  alighting at stops 
       of impermanence
solemn slumber 
    encased casualty...

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Time froze
 an echo
   into eternity
a detail etched
deep
into memory

a forever 
    experience...
smitten 
by a smile
   across 
 ...

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(select all), (delete)
  that's sometimes the feeling of a reflection
    the notion of who you are brought into
   ...

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just drink from the cup
as the river of oblivion flows
some try to stand in stagnant waters
others cocooned by the edges
seeking a cure from the inevitable

I...

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Assimilates with fireworks in the sable blue sky, the luminous daffodil orb emitted from the statue’s torch - twin towers intact. Demi-towers stand tall as...

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Lyrical in beauty
dug from the depths 
of the past.
A storyteller, articulate 
elegaic  writing words
to last.
Of farm life and childhood, 
deep in Irish  terra...

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VIRGINAL GIRL
begin the beguine..
Make your music mine
LAUGHING GIRL
joy's outflow-from eyes aglow
GIRL WITH EARRING
a look of love-
into eternity's mirror
LACEMAKING GIRL
intricate detail
patient design-
portrait of time
MUSIC GIRL
when the...

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silhouettes &
                blurs
become simple
detail
disintegrates
out
of
focus

      ...

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Calm, cool mornings
Blessed with sunlight’s whisper,
Birds crooning softly in the distance,
Breathless dewdrops sliding hastily over
A petal, treasuring the promise of rain,
Hesitating then pouring down from...

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"Inspired by  The Sick Child by Edward Munch 1907  Oils on Canvas." The Poet

Motif etched first then done in hues of green,
Light embracing...

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The painting of "The Sick Child" by Edvard Munch (1863-1944)
was painted in 1907, oil on canvas, 46.4 inches by  47.2 inches
or 3.8 feet...

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I hear her 
When, in stillness – peace,
She surrounds me with her promises,
Light, mist on the morning, hope
Lifting away all the doubt, the darkness
With a...

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