Sea Ekphrasis Poems

The Fighting Temeraire
I lead this Queen to a guillotine
She follows me with dignity and grace
all English oak and 98 guns.
I am an unsuitable escort for...

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there's commonality with a pencil line
 it could be anything
    just as the sea could swallow me up
 the pencil could place...

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Standing on my head
looking up at the trees
and the sparkling sky

When it’s dark I don’t see
the ship float by nor
the tsunami sea

Upside-down women
on either side
of...

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Should I look up, I see it all clearly
The route, the goal, the possibilities

To be cradled and lie on fluffy pillows
Or perhaps impossible dreams

Then there's...

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all movements sweep
              perpetual motion
   the moon swims towards me,...

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Do you see the frame or the cage?
Step beyond and into this: a rare and colourful bliss,
island of calm in an ocean of rage...
Yesterday, the...

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I stand alone, though I see another
Frequenting dark corners shouting 'other'
Cloaked in shadow, or a shadow become
Out run, out run, out run, out run

We dance...

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The tapestry of the indigo sky,
weaved with the strips of silver cloud, 
merges with the still sea in the blues.
The dislodged boulders strewn as dry...

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Only a loving parent can feel,                   ...

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The rocks were warm, hard, embers
of the summer day sun.
The air was calm, balmy, thick and syrupy.
The sea a mirror, shimmering with 
gentle sky sparkles...

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Take me home, to where the fields are green
Where the skies are blue, and the air is clean
To the place where my heart and soul...

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JMW TURNER pre impressions 

fluid skies
wash
surreal
              scenes
from the horizon,
clouds
   ...

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Inspired by Rooms By the Sea by Edward Hopper.

Obscure the eyes provide more to feel
The energy from the ocean meets zeal
My mind expands within this...

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Inspired by oil painting, Melancholy by Edvard Munch in 1891. Viewing the painting will help make sense of the poem.

The sediment courses with questionable energy,...

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Inspired by:
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
Painting by Caspar David Friedrich
(Viewing painting will help make sense of poem)

There is no view of which to speak
Do...

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