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Snow Ekphrasis Poems

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

Between the Extremes - POTD

In the nighttime hours
As the world deftly creeps by
I summon my powers
Spread my wings and fly
Past cotton clouds,
Snow-capped mountains, white
I am lost and I am...

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Categories: desire, flying, freedom, sunset,

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,

BUILDINGS IN the SNOW

Buildings blue
pink, yellow, orange
and white in
a row, and it is
snowing.

At midnight
they seem to hover
in the dark,
and snow glows
in the sky
and on the ground.

No telling
if they...

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Categories: imagery,

J M W Turner - Snow Storm 1842

strapped to the mast, I recite it so
to show what I saw, I had to know
  no dramatisation of emotion took place
  ...

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Categories: art,

The Lady Stands Relaxed

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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Categories: america, art, celebration, imagery,

Self-Portrait With Cigarette By Edvard Munch

The snow falls white in Norway
just like anywhere else in the world.

The snow falls white in Norway
like the smoke from a cigarette.

The blue mists lap...

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Categories: art,

Red House and Spruce By Edvard Munch

Red House and Spruce by Edvard Munch

Snug, in a blue bunting of hibernation,
Red cottage 
In a clearing of indigo and ice spruce 
That form ribs...

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Categories: blue, house, red, snow,

American West In Camouflage

Based on painting by Bev Doolittle: Woodland Encounter

American West in Camouflage

Two Indians* hide, in the birch forest,
        ...

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Categories: animal, imagery, native american,

Ekphrasis On Snow At Argenteuil

footprints carved on a crystalline carpet
the winding traces of morning skaters
on teal and ivory rugged snowfield
lead me to his quiet hometown

the bare trees that surround...

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Categories: appreciation, art, love,

Bleak In Winter's Cold

Except for the snow, it’s a monochromatic scene
The pond is frozen to a reflecting mirror finish,
In the fields there is not a speck of green...

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Categories: perspective, seasons, winter,

Approaching Winter In the Urals

Granite outcroppings sparkle like gems
Leading the eye to a neatly-hidden village
In the shadow of distant purple mountains,
And beyond to higher peaks snow-capped.
Over all the pastoral...

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Categories: inspirational, nature, places, seasons,

Ekphrasis On Almond Blossoms

dainty darling blossoms~ 
are floating fluffy clouds 
of ivory and  petunia
hanging like empyrean jewels 
'neath the vibrant skies 
of turquoise and royal blue

fingers that wrinkled...

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Categories: appreciation, art,

Lost and Found

The blue shaded mountain of strength
Rises bold and protective into the sky
Casts secrets in the ravines of slopes
Where trails weave mysterious stories
The lake is frozen,...

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Categories: art, mountains, winter,

Ekphrasis On the Magpie By Monet

A lonesome magpie~
perching on a forlorn wooden stairs
on a snowcapped mountain side
spells serenity in the day light.

The barn house reflects
the pale lavender shadows~
a soft blend...

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Categories: appreciation, art,

Glimpses of Samuel Palmer

imaginations
     abide in
        perfection
lasting
   but a moment
transitory
     as...

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Categories: art, people,