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Son Ekphrasis Poems

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

Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan

“A famous work dating from 1885 by Russian realist painter Ilya Repin, Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan. The painting depicts Ivan the Terrible...

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Categories: violence,

Whiskers That Free W T F Contest

Whiskers That Free

Inspired by the painting Magdalena Ventura with Her Husband and Son by Jusepe de Ribera, 1631.

The painting shows a bearded lady with her...

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Categories: art,

Night In Saint Cloud - Munch

Inspired by the painting Night in Saint Cloud painted by Edvard Munch (1890) following the death of his father. His father, Christian Munch, was a...

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Categories: art,

Memento Mori

What good would it do,
Son of Peleus,
To pull that arrow from your heel?
As you lie there helpless, 
Legs useless and folded beneath you.
Your hand clenched...

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Categories: mythology,

Son of Hannover An Amalgam

forays
  with the 
            commonplace
collaged
     spatial
   ...

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Categories: art, tribute,

Kincaids Cross On Mountain

The ocean on the rocks
cannot reach...
Rays from the cliffs
beseech...
A vine coiled ‘round
a stake...
The true vine —
make no mistake!
Before my eyes reach
the sea,
I only see the...

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Categories: art, christian,

Captured Divine Fulfillment

Beholding the painting of Jesus Christ’s resurrection
I find myself reliving a glorious occurrence in history
          ...

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Categories: bible, christian, faith, god,

Apples Bring Hearts Home

Ekphrastic: Nature Morte Aux Pommes
Painting by Alfred Sisley

Red, gold apples lay
Crispy, crunchy picked that day
Mama's orchard farm

Paring with her knife
Her son brought home his new...

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Categories: family, farm, fruit, husband,

The Crucified Saviour

Viewing the crucifixion scene capturing my soul 
I'm glued to the vital character bearing the painting's essence  
Staring at His image, my mind is...

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Categories: appreciation, christian, devotion, faith,

The Story of Creation

And Adam fell from grace
He lost the touch of his Fathers hand
There is an inch gap where the fingers meet
God and Adam…
Adam stretched but could...

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Categories: bible,

The Take Over

Painting #10
Thistle in a Field, by Fidelia Bridges  1875


Wild and free, 
the thistle in a field 
sharpens its spine, 
stretches its long neck 
to...

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Categories: flower, sun,

Saturn Devours His Son

In the void lurks a titan.
The father of the gods themselves.
Though by now he wishes that he was not.
But the selfish titan lord Kronos,
The father...

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Categories: art, evil, father, father

The Police Man and the Boy At the Ice Cream Shoppe

Propped up on a bar-stool almost seeing eye to eye, the policeman and the kindergartner sharing stories over two scoops of ice cream. Today's special...

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Categories: character, childhood, peace, sorrow,

The Sleep of Endymion

The Sleep of Endymion



Endymion, a simple title I must impose upon
He, son of Zeus, fell in love with Huntress Diana
Goddess of the Moon,  nightly...

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Categories: art, devotion, , cute,

The Sleep of Endymion

Endymion, a simple title I must impose upon
He, son of Zeus, fell in love with Diana
Goddess of the Moon, about him, nightly she swooned
and bathed...

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Categories: art