Spring Ekphrasis Poems

I had fun brushing the sky, with its impeccable blue,
then a sweep here and there of cloud’s silvery lining.
A few waffled spots amplified the intensity...

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can you tell me?

do eyelids rest when closed -
or does effort increase?
it all feels spring loaded to me
as I sit here, I don't want the...

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I take no shelter from the force
barely do I prepare for changeable weather
I'll withstand these winds
the North Wind is predictable in it's whimsy

I'm as solid...

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my feet hardly touch the earth
    I separate the hardness of the ground
with the lightness of the flowers
    ...

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No
mirror
of the soul-
Archimboldo's
art,
more
satire
by cartoon
on nature's still
life

The
old man
dies a death,
youth arrives with
Spring-
with
a blaze
of passion
Summer takes a 
Fall-
and 
decays-
in Winter
dark ages
call


Inspired by Archimboldo's Seasons paintings...

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Only a loving parent can feel,                   ...

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Sandro Botticelli's
     masterpiece
Primarvera
        painted in 1478
     with no clear explanation...

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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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Auschwitz   
      1.3 million people sent there
          1.1 million...

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Botticelli and his Primavera-
 
                    a...

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coruscating cosmic colours
dazzling in the skyline~
prismatic geometric shapes
of village houses from afar 
dwarfed by enormous haystacks
a fiery cone resting 
illuminating in varied hues
reminds me of...

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El Paso, Texas
 desert landscape
  mountain tops
   cactus’s so green
     sand storms
      dry...

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Woman releases balloons of hope

A young woman 
walks in a park
 on a sunny spring day
carrying 25 red balloons  

each red balloon 
contains ...

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you are so fair
           a banner over me
       ...

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