Ekphrastic Poems - Poems about Ekphrastic

...Withered fingers Cannot play anymore; I drown in nuanced shades of blue, Not seeing, in my plight, My strings, wound tight, Suspending me Like a puppet, Tethered to life. I in my tattered c......

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...Cultural Reverence / Cultural Fiesta ekphrastic poetry competition: facebook.com/share/p/EbeMGVKgPZnjyA31/ Thank you, Sukanto Roy and CULTURAL FIESTA Photography titled : Dawn Of New Hope. ......

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...She wore an aura of light and bent over a sewing machine. Through thick lenses she peered at every stitch created by her touch. She didn’t say for whom she was making the dress while letting ......

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...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 wild beast pr......

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...Keats wrote an ode about an urn; I read to see what I could learn. Ah, happy, happy, here and there! More happy, happy, everywhere! But not much else could I discern; Like Greek to me, its beaut......

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...Wedding Kermesse Common folk with few wants (Toilers reaping earth’s bounty) Enjoy life’s pleasantries To escape harsh realities Of day-to-day existence Expressed in a ‘Kermesse’...

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...Café Terrace (Coffee House) In Arles, France Beneath stars of heavenly grandeur, In a café, romance prospects dwell brighter. Patrons entertaining escapades of camaraderie, Charismatical......

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...State of the Art (IV) These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry. Hearthside by Michael R. Burch “When you are old and grey and full of sleep...” — W. ......

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...What pain you must have felt - what a life that you lived A starving artist - swallows his own paint - in order to feel complete. Painting the simple folk of a town The tavern at dusk became your ......

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...the Devil speaks In the Garden of Earthly Delights in the garden of earthly delights the devil makes a covert appearance disguised as always he wanders about the world corrupting everything......

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...Walking in Limbo a man finds himself alone in a dark forest filled with strange trees and hears voices in the wind he walks forward towards a light in the forest and soon finds himse......

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...Hunters In The Snow Slowly, the hunters break stride through the snow, Hunched over in failure their heads hung low. Below the hill where villagers at play, Will soon be sad with no food......

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...Vacuum by Michael R. Burch Over hushed quadrants forever landlocked in snow, time’s senseless winds blow... leaving odd relics of lives half-revealed, if still mostly concealed... such are......

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...Currents by Michael R. Burch How can I write and not be true to the rhythm that wells within? How can the ocean not be blue, not buck with the clapboard slap of tide, the clockwork shock of w......

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...By the gloating rocks once its refuge, The sun wallows in scarlet rages; Glovers at the ticky-tacky cages, Who feel naught of the coming deluge From the lurching stream that knows no rest. Eac......

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