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MONA LISA : Leonardo da Vinci : 1503
 enigmatically enlightened 
                   embodied essence of 
o__live imperceptible 
       ...

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Categories: allegory, allusion, art, color, creation, extended metaphor,
Form: Ekphrasis



BLUE NUDE : Pablo Picasso: 1902
she  rose from depths of his despair
followed an artistic youthful 
                       D
...

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Categories: allegory, allusion, art, bereavement, blue, body, color,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Fishing Boats On the Beach At Les Saintes
Fishing Boats On The Beach at Les Saintes - Marie’s-de-la-Mer

                  Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1888), Arles, June...

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Categories: beach, boat, fishing,
Form: Ekphrasis
DAVID : Sculpture : Michelangelo: Florence : 1501
  “Sweet is my sleep, but more to be mere stone,
so long as ruin and dishonour reign ;
to bear nought, to feel nought, is my great gain ;
then wake me not, speak in an...

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Categories: allusion, art, character, creation, extended metaphor, humanity,
Form: Ekphrasis
Twelve Sunflowers in a Vase
 twelve of us he choose to paint
    sons of Jacob in an earthen 
jar so sturdy
plonked us with vehemence
directed by neuronal cells 
skull protecting scrambled 
delicacy
     ...

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Categories: allegory, art, character, color, extended metaphor, light,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member Goethe or The Metamorphosis of Plants Andre Masson
Too much to know, I just don't know it
As I fumble around, just a humble poet 
Frustrated as I watch unfurl a show
I just don't know it, too much to know

Answers are near, in the...

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Categories: art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member What Fascinates Me
art inspires me, Van Gogh fascinates me! 
                                 
             ...

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Categories: art, sky, stars,
Form: Ekphrasis
CREATION OF MAN Section Sistine Chapel Ceiling 1511 -MICHELANGELO
 do not be afraid

                  GO !     MY  BELOVED
    ...

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Categories: allegory, art, character, creation, extended metaphor, feelings,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member POEM NO 10,000 a retrospective
My First poem posted here May 2007 was  an enigmatic Lanterne

Viduage

Tall
nettles-
the dutch hoe
rusting in the
shed.

My First ekphrasis (poem no 2 here ) BELLA

Bella

He
opened
the window-
in streamed his first
love
with
flowers,
dressed
in white-
she haunted his
art.

An Ekphrasis in lanterne  sequence on Marc Chagall

MY FIRST POEM I EVER WROTE poem no 3 here. a favoured form  AN ALLITERATION

Connections
Confront,clash,collide
COMBAT !
Cold shoulder,chill,cool
CUT-OFF !
Cry,crave,collect
CALL-ON !
Constant,compassion,consider
CHARITY !
Confer,commune,converse
COMMUNICATE !
Convene,concert,consensus
CONCORD !
COVENANT ! CHRIST ! CHURCH !

MY FIRST IMAGIST POEM -REFLECTIONS

Reflections

Deep into the pool
A blue moon,ephemeral,
Below white-coated peaks,
Bleak and surreal,
The transient image too soon
Dissolves,and ripples into space,
As water though my grasp.

MY FIRST CINQUAIN (after Adelaide Crapsey)

Long days
Of August sun
Where nature blinks and shrinks
The dying grass,yellowed in sleep-
Held fast

MY FIRST HIKU 

On the wind,a bell
Muffled from across the square
Raindrops fill the air
why hiku ?

HAIKU means  the ' phonetical&cultural original 'in Japanese'

whereas HIKU

is the English language version(including translations)with similar economy of words without "telling all" thereby to ' show ' (conforming to the key to...

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Categories: ekphrasis, celebration, poetry,
Form: Bio
Premium Member The Nightmare - Henry Fuseli
In vibrations of virtual whispers,
I found her under a satin sunset,
chained to an eerie entity, digging, 
its claws into her silken spirit.
Yet behind her dim eyes - I saw 
tiny flames of fuchsia and gold
and...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: art, betrayal, lost love,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Helen Steiner Rice
She breathes joy into poetry
Lighting the way for you and me
Her words color hearts in gentleness
Whispering peace through the spirit
Reminding us all that we have One
Who is willing to strengthen and calm
Reassure our hearts, souls...

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Categories: appreciation, beautiful, faith, inspirational, poetry, poets, write,
Form: Ekphrasis
HEAVEN IS VERB AND NOUN
     Heaven, synonymous with 
Heart in its becoming of
the New Human ~ 
perception, perceiver and perceived
when merging incubates an 
anechoic  reality________
all else incanting illusion
labyrinths of hopelessness
whether it includes jade palaces,...

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Categories: ekphrasis, allegory, allusion, beauty, emotions, heart, heaven, image,
Form: Free verse
Streets of Solitude
 " Misunderstood 
 by my own metaphors, 
traversing the ivory webs 
 of your cunning twilight ~
which tried to mute those
feminine laments within me, 
  I've metamorphosed 
 to a colourless caterpillar, 
yearning...

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Categories: ekphrasis, anxiety, deep, emotions, life, metaphor, solitude, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Sirens and Ulysses, Etty 1837
Inspired by The Sirens and Ulysses, oil painting by William Etty.

The painting depicts a scene from Homer's epic "The Odyssey," where the hero Ulysses (aka Odysseus) orders his crew to tie him to the mast...

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Categories: art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Nocturne Opus 9 Number 1
This hasn't quite worked, so I'll have to revisit it. I listened to Chopin Opus 9 number 1 for inspiration and got lots of sprawling thoughts. I tried to put them into a Rondeau Redoublé...

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Categories: art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Different Strokes of a Feather ?
Picture me this all colors and hues                            ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: allegorywords, journey, together, perspective,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member The Camp of the Dead Children
Emily of three years
Leukemia eating her soul
Her bald head, made her smile wider
Please mummy do not cry
I will hug you even after I die

Tommy of five years
Bone cancer eating his limbs
Unable to walk, this beautiful...

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Categories: beauty, introspection, love, sad, science, universe,
Form: Ekphrasis
Texas Rainbows Flicker a Lilibonelle
North Richland Hills grew a rainbow I wanted to hold in my hand
Wand for wishing I don’t know what to reach-ask for?
Plethora is sunshine below the bow along your Texas land
Donned a different approach—your rainbow...

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Categories: faithinternet, rainbow,
Form: Ekphrasis
Ethereal Egg
Might it be a pool or wishing well
with rainbow ripples round it wound
within an enchanted cosmic dell
of a fabulous world newfound—

or perhaps a spacetime passageway
that tunnels through regions yonder
to place where poets come out to...

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Categories: animal, humanity, imagery, imagination, nature, space, stars,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member The Ambassadors - Hans Holbein the Younger
I appreciate knowing nothing
    trying to let the weight of the world
 rest
somewhere out of sight
    viewable only through a glass tube
  or a scientific device operated with...

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Categories: art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Light Broadening II Paul Klee
sink beneath the surface every time goaded
same event distorted until colour coded
and always bedraggled and gasping for air
terrified that this is actually fair
failings cascade like works of art
brokeness perfectly playing it's part
around each hell bubble...

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Categories: anxiety,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member The Holy Stretch
His silhouette lines up with his preacher stretch.
He points with avid attention to the throne of God.
Though he stands, his skinny knees are bent.
He’s in the trenches with his armament.

The congregants in the old wooden...

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Categories: christian,
Form: Ekphrasis
Poems' Collection
POEMS
0F MRS PANAGIOTA CHRISTOPOULOU-ZALONI
Athens-Greece
20160621

It’s time
It’s time of thought.
The Love discovers
Secret paths 
And “she’s guided to the dream”.

It’s time of beautiful… 
The Love conquers 
The summit of Olympus
Emotion plays pleasantly.

It’s the time of union…
The Love gathers...

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Categories: love,
Form: Ekphrasis
Butterfly Dream
I had a dream that I was a butterfly
winged iridescent; my life would flutter by
as I was dreaming a dream of a dream of
my own lepidopteron being above.

Hither and thither I flightily flitted,
or so it...

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Categories: beauty, dream, image, inspiration, space, stars, wisdom,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Necronom IV 1976 H R Giger
the ghost of science, born of blasphemy ~
a fossilized fallacy,
seized from the metallic heart of Mars,
seeks light amidst night-terrors
like an alien sculpted
from artificial accolades,
an embryo stuck in the interstellar state
of becoming,
stitched within radioactive ribs
beneath moonless...

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Categories: creation, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Ekphrasis

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