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Metaphor Ekphrasis Poems

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

Premium Member PICTURE POEM limerick
Miro impulsively hurled his paint
making spots&splatters quite quaint
Action painting upon the dark blue
in metaphor&symbols so new
Enough to make the viewer faint...

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Categories: art,

WINTER IN AN IOWA CORNFIELD
WINTER IN AN IOWA CORNFIELD

Why start nattering about lucky tracks
Neath a tarnished night of a waning storm?
Haystacks in a disciplined platoon wait
With hooded coats, caves...

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Categories: america, art, metaphor, poems,
Premium Member Shared With Love a Response To Agnes Amory
‘So many moons ago..’
In Each tale we visit a new style of castle.
The villages or rivers, they lead us through a quest; 
All so very...

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Categories: art, emotions, feelings, nostalgia,
Premium Member Dreamscape
just as inter-stellar objects shine brightest 
at the event horizon of a black hole
so a person's spirit flares 
shortly before his passing

searching for Mother’s number...

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Categories: ekphrasis, dream, metaphor, philosophy,
I Hear Music Ancient Music
I
The Reeds rest in water by faith
You may recall Baby Moses' name
Or you may forget the Prince of Egypt
And his name, "Up from Reeds"
THE WIND...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: allegory, international, metaphor, music,

Premium Member For Stone To Swim
I, cold ... cold as stone ...
But is that not befitting such as I?
Once, merely common, hidden deep in the earth,
Still, my quality made itself...

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Categories: analogy, art, metaphor, ocean,
The Devil In the Garden of Earthly Delights
the Devil speaks In the Garden of Earthly Delights

in the garden of earthly delights
the devil makes a covert appearance
disguised as always

he wanders about the world...

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© Jake Aller  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dream, easter, eve, extended
Premium Member Songs Pt 3 Pound Tribute
sincere reform with sensibility
given neutral
done with understanding:
curiousity    whatrever
wherever
made with grace
&prudence
a metaphor of clarity
         ...

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Categories: people, poetry,
Premium Member Numbered Days Relevant Ways
in to the wilderness
          wandering
           ...

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Categories: christian, thanksgiving, tribute,
On Madame X
Sargent’s Madame X is not just a socialite,

she is rather the embodiment of French aristocracy.

 

Pale as moonlight,

poised, brimming with dignity;

her crown is an ode...

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Categories: allegory, appreciation, art, beauty,
Trickling
Confetti trickles like running water.
Trickle, trickle, trickle—
I hear trickling...
Sound barrier insulation omits tones.
The party carries on. 
Bits of pieces remain stagnant.
But I can still hear...

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Categories: allusion, image, imagery, metaphor,
Written In Beige
Written In Beige

Against the bleak bank wall he leans
as the sidewalk moves sideways
across his tangential thoughts.
People pass, the dull parade,
the money-grubbers and hoarders
in their shiny...

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Categories: identity, metaphor, tribute,
And She Lies Sheltered Beneath the Oak
 
(There was roast chicken too with potatoes and cheese, though in the picture not seen! Before the shot it had been gobbled up...)


A table...

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Categories: allegory, flower, food, metaphor,
Cathartic Evolution
The consummation of this 
                    ...

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Categories: imagery, inspiration, metaphor, words,

Book: Shattered Sighs