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Mother Ekphrasis Poems

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


Premium Member Love Letter for April :139:
Dear Love,
Just a quick note:
You caught me unawares
I thought I lived in circles
You taught me to accept squares
I write to ask for guidance
As straight lines...

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© Sam Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: confusion, crush, friendship love,



Premium Member Sophie His Sister
"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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Categories: sick,

Premium Member The Sick Child-Edvard Munch
THE SICK CHILD-EDVARD MUNCH

Ghostly downpour upon not the sick,
but the sick at heart - a child’s mother.
Bittersweet tangle of red - patient’s hair,
dresser, caretaker’s hands....

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Categories: art,

Premium Member The Sick Child - Art By Edvard Munch
Inspired by “The Sick Child” painting by Edvard Munch

A pale face, all happiness drained out! 
green and auburn lines - vertical and horizontal, 
swirl around...

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Categories: girl, heartbroken,

Premium Member The Sick Child
Only a loving parent can feel,                   ...

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Categories: child, mom, pain, sick,



Premium Member Monet- Madame Monet- And- Child
One little sidestep off the beaten track, 
Is a colorful garden of dazzling shades,
With blood red geraniums of scintillating hue
Interspersed by those of white and...

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Categories: appreciation, beauty, garden,

Premium Member Grant Wood: American Gothic
stoic or mourning
in a time of depression
or keepers of secrets
with a hostile divide?

why daylit drawn curtains
made from fabric she's wearing
and 'mother-in-law's tongue'
on the porch to...

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Categories: america, farm, symbolism,

Premium Member What Fascinates Me
art inspires me, Van Gogh fascinates me! 
                                 
   ...

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Categories: art, sky, stars,

Used Clothes
My daughter
The world has grown you 
Hastily Into a woman
As your blood flows

In my eyes
You are my daughter
The one whose little hand
I held on the...

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Categories: black african american, child

Birth of Venus
She stood in her pink shell
Hands covering her breast
She looks down shyly
She is a virgin, a woman, a lover 
A doting wife and sweet mother
Birth...

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Categories: abuse, birth,

Premium Member The Artist - Whistler

 
damaged, discontent, ravaged,  searching the mist...

a drop, a tear, a light London rain

with moments, in search, quietly sustained

with subtle seduction
harmony played
 
alone ...

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Categories: art, mother,

Premium Member You Gotta Have Heart
Tag words: advertising, bebop, bird, bottle, Charlie 
Parker, Coca-Cola, Cole Porter, Dizzy Gillespie,
door, flag, heart, jazz, light bulb, Louis Armstrong,
Miles Davis, palette, Pepsi Cola, pluralism...

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Categories: art,

Premium Member Father's Gone
Father's Gone 

Beside the seaside the fisherman's wife, 
her child in hand, walks asking about loss. 
Her father, years gone, left a life of strife....

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Categories: appreciation, art, beautiful, child,

Time Flies Based On Portrait No 9, Morning At the Quay In Venice By Helen Allingham
TIME FLIES by Jeanette Jones 
based on PORTRAIT NO 9 
Morning at the Quay in Venice by Helen Allingham




TIME FLIES


Early still, I rise again. 
For...

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Categories: adventure, bird, imagination, mother

Her Red Apron
Painting #8
L'Enfant au Tablier Rouge, 1886 by Berthe Morisot

Her Red Apron

Tied to your apron strings 
she wandered, wondered 
wondrous things 
about the snow 
covered trees....

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Categories: beauty, love, mother daughter,


Book: Shattered Sighs