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Water Ekphrasis Poems

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


Premium Member Edvard Munch, Melancholy Man and the Mermaid
hear me out or don't
  it matters not
 ~ this recall 
   isn't 
       due 
...

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Categories: art,



Premium Member The Tempest, Painting by Michael Cheval
You pull me from the depths of forevers of thought
elegantly twirled, though evidently caught
shaped by the vortex, virtuoso of pain
fluctuating truths from half flailing to...

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Categories: art,

Flame Of Water
Like the semblance of an oil painting 
This flame of water
Imagines filaments of silk sapphire
Curling in cobalt spirals
And tendrils of azure fire 
In a clear-blue...

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Categories: water,

Premium Member the water fairy Ida Rentoul Outhwaite 1921
I follow the curve of the land
  forging a way that was already dictated
   falling whilst shackled to endlessness
  becoming as...

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Categories: art,

Premium Member Flower Clouds, Odilon Redon 1903
I find myself here
following the night
       did I plunge to the depths
become reborn -
     ...

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Categories: anxiety, hope,



Premium Member Monet Analysed
silhouettes &
                blurs
become simple
detail
disintegrates
out
of
focus

      ...

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Categories: art,

Premium Member Van Gogh Analysed
a drawbridge is seen
a yellow carriage ground 
grass so very green
sky and water
 blue in a frame of gold
decorate the scene
as if in a dream
...

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Categories: art,

Premium Member Sunk
I heard the words of my poem
Said down the phone
The same words

I'd written those words down
Before today and before that
The same words

That's the pattern
Repeating
The same...

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Categories: abuse,

Premium Member Shore With Red House - Edvard Munch
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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Categories: art, mental illness,

Premium Member Girls On the Bridge - Edvard Munch 1899
Girl in green dress that sets off a red head’s fiery nature – 
In contemplation, viewing the passage of the river and time.
Russet dressed lass...

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Categories: art,

Premium Member Lake Side Birch Trees
   I could look at this painting
      forever, oh Klimt was a talent
lake side with birch trees is...

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Categories: art,

Premium Member The Sick Child
Only a loving parent can feel,                   ...

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Categories: child, mom, pain, sick,

Premium Member Easter Dinner
EASTER DINNER

they liked the one behind me
the teal and black checkerboard
its sparkling tiles on the diagonal
red, yellow, blue, pink pillows
on sofas and chair

the sunrise was...

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Categories: art, easter, food,

Premium Member The Lion and the Gypsy
The Lion and the Gypsy

For some, life is simple in raw assertiveness,
With no disarmament of conscience, alertness.
Beneath a moonlit sky, a heartbeat from closed eyes,
The...

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Categories: animal, life, nature,

I Hear Music Ancient Music
I
The Reeds rest in water by faith
You may recall Baby Moses' name
Or you may forget the Prince of Egypt
And his name, "Up from Reeds"
THE WIND...

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Categories: allegory, international, metaphor, music,


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