Long Ekphrasis Poems
Long Ekphrasis Poems. Below are the most popular long Ekphrasis by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Ekphrasis poems by poem length and keyword.
Fishing Boats On The Beach at Les Saintes
Fishing Boats On The Beach at Les Saintes - Marie’s-de-la-Mer
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beach, boat, fishing,
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Ekphrasis
What Fascinates Me
art inspires me, Van Gogh fascinates me!
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art, sky, stars,
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Helen Steiner RiceShe 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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appreciation, beautiful, faith, inspirational, poetry, poets, write,
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The Sirens and Ulysses, Etty 1837 aka a poem about a painting about part of a poemInspired 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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art,
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Ekphrasis
Nocturne Opus 9 number 1This 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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art,
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Ekphrasis
different strokes of a feather ?Picture me this all colors and hues ...
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allegorywords, journey, together, perspective,
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The Camp of the Dead ChildrenEmily 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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beauty, introspection, love, sad, science, universe,
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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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faithinternet, rainbow,
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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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animal, humanity, imagery, imagination, nature, space, stars,
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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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love,
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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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beauty, dream, image, inspiration, space, stars, wisdom,
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Hopper's Automat Expressed Poetically and AbstractInspired by the painting Automat by Edward Hopper in 1927.
The painting shows a lone woman sat at automated restaurant table.
Viewing the painting will enhance the poem.
Centre stage yet unseen, star still observable when no longer...
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art,
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Medicine - Klimtjust drink from the cup
as the river of oblivion flows
some try to stand in stagnant waters
others cocooned by the edges
seeking a cure from the inevitable
I see everything
a whole journey crystal clear
these seconds of clarity won't...
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angst,
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Ekphrasis
Girl With A Pearl Earring
"Girl with a Pearl Earring" is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer, dated c. 1665. Going by various names over the centuries, it became known by its present title towards the...
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girl, muse,
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MenelausEyes, in such a way, that some strange virture, some everlasting release
Was imparted to he. A strange bargain indeed; to resist the gods and to please
Satan in his rebellioin from all that was natural, yet...
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angel, anger, aubade, bird, chocolate, christian, cousin,
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Ekphrasis
Canabils and the Antidotein the year 2098 on the planet Julephia in the Huilinium Galaxy an element called Pubbius was found, generating interest from all points of the galaxy. While mining pubier,(an alloy used to make rods in...
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appreciation, art, betrayal, bullying, business, celebration, character,
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Ekphrasis
Cinderella's Starry NightWinds hustling pass the speed limit.
Trees whispering gossip;
obviously a scandalous myth.
She stares up into the copper brown walls.
Resting, but not relaxing, in a bed of straws.
Her long golden hair nesting...
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art, blue, fantasy, freedom, irony, princess, youth,
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Ekphrasis
Nostalgia
Calm, cool mornings
Blessed with sunlight’s whisper,
Birds crooning softly in the distance,
Breathless dewdrops sliding hastily over
A petal, treasuring the promise of rain,
Hesitating then pouring down from heaven
In pails of beating BBs, little treasures
Telling of the adventures…...
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nostalgia,
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Ekphrasis
Butterfly Reverie
Is it a butterfly out in the blue,
poised in its daintily delicate flight—
nebula N G C six three oh two—
offering rhymers a poem to write?
In our galaxy, that is the Way Milky,
with structure bipolar in...
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dream, fantasy, imagery, imagination, sky, space, stars,
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Ekphrasis
Cezanne's The Basket of Applesit's all about perspective
illusion held in place, solidly
visually suggestive of reality
who are you...
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art,
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a truly scrumptious feastMesmerised
My eyes are glued
I take in every detail
His sea
His sky
His movement
I hear the sounds
Pervade the air
As if myself
As if I’m there
I’m standing back
So much to see
It gently pulls
I stand within
A bystander
As...
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appreciation, art, sea, tribute,
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Ekphrasis
The Scream
I hear her
When, in stillness – peace,
She surrounds me with her promises,
Light, mist on the morning, hope
Lifting away all the doubt, the darkness
With a feeling, a soul stirring scream
I hear her
Beating, in rhythm –...
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appreciation, art,
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Ekphrasis
Star-crossed“The heaventree of stars” (in Ulysses as said Joyce)
“hung with humid nightblue fruit” (ah that Bloomian voice)
could evoke a masterpiece the world has come to know,
The Starry Night, so treasured now, by Vincent van Gogh…
In...
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analogy, art, creation, fantasy, imagery, space, stars,
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Ekphrasis
BEHOLDING 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 gripped with Scripture verses
Unraveling momentous event in history - spiritual...
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appreciation, christian, devotion, faith, god, jesus, spiritual,
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Ekphrasis
Adonta ta meleRunning cracks of lead flaked paint, spiders across the front door like a grandfather's
forehead.
Its hinges squeal from years of inattention and forgotten maintenance
Floor boards moan a song of dismemberment and forgotten age
While musty gloom...
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artlove, space,
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Ekphrasis