People Ekphrasis Poems

Notes: 

This poem is related to the performance, impermanent art "This Progress"  by Tino Sehgal - a choreographed conversation in the Guggenheim Art Museum...

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Written: May 03, 2025, for contest by Brian Strand

Olena Babak's artwork Spring's Easel Explodes Painting Shades


( It is more convenient to read the poem while...

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Inspired by Leon Spilliaert's– The Vertigo (The Staircase)

sorry, I mistook the wind in my hair
as a sign I existed
tried to find myself there
yet I feel...

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Sometimes the light's all shining on me
Other times I can barely see
Lately it occurs to me
What a long strange trip it's been, 

 from Truckin...

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A Seagull’s Lament

I have a bird’s eye view.
I am a seagull after all.
Where are all of the people?
Those nice tourists who fed me
french fries, buns,...

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I see a line of cars
And they're all painted black
With flowers and my love
Both never to come back
I've seen people turn their heads
And quickly look...

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DUCHAMP URINAL

toilette
to wet

LOWRY PEOPLE

matchsticks
in pics

HOPPER URBANITY
film stills
sans frills

...

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tonight I will not be absorbed by the blue/black 
I'm in the gaslight
the hum of people, protecting me, unbeknownst to them
as undercurrents don't grab, for...

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You can go too far
I could go too far
In the pursuit of shocking oneself into life
Take a whole dollop of stomach ache
Shovel in it
Masquerade it...

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secured in place
upon painted seat
spokes crisscross at its heart
       neither useful
positioned to gain dismissed attention 
the 'art', of course,...

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It seems dark, though daisies are open
I still see in colour, so I cannot be broken
Smears and smudges all left a mark
Though daisies are open,...

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Friedrich Stowasser was Austrian born
some find is art a bit of a yawn
Hundertwasser moniker was his first choice
labyrinthine*his lyrical artistic voice...

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Cleopatra

   “How good it feels to stroke the finest linen
and to know that yarn spun from the drop spindle
came by planters, harvesters, and...

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crystallied moments
symbolized
in simplicity...

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DELLA FRANCESCA

meticulous mystery
so picturesque
en passant...

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