Short Ekphrastic Poems
Short Ekphrastic Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Ekphrastic by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Ekphrastic by length and keyword.
tilted up toward sky
the trio fills its space
with well-rounded lips in
resonant, chorded, choral grace
aaaaahhhhhhhhhh! {loudly with song}
© Goode Guy 2013-08-05
for Elizabeth Krome's pottery
for the Charles Taylor Arts Center
ekphrastic poetry event 2013-08-11
Categories:
ekphrastic, art, imagination,
Form:
Ekphrasis
It may seem an odd time of year
to be throwing flowers before the fire
What ire possessed! Is this some jest?
or colorful reminder of springs bequest
© Goode Guy 2014-01-04
ekphrastic for 2014-01-12 at
the Charles Taylor Art Museum of
"Tulip Screen" by Daniel Smith
Categories:
ekphrastic, art, visionary,
Form:
Ekphrasis
in negative temperature
on whitened branch
refracting winter's dark
inversing frosted blanch
pitch to mirrored pool
of symmetry below
in opposite of dual -
serene in its afterglow
© Goode Guy 2013-08-05
for David Wilson's "The Reflected Tree"
for the Charles Taylor Arts Center
ekphrastic poetry event 2013-08-11
Categories:
ekphrastic, film, introspection,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Ekphrastic: Nature Morte Aux Pommes
Painting by Alfred Sisley
Red, gold apples lay
Crispy, crunchy picked that day
Mama's orchard farm
Paring with her knife
Her son brought home his new wife
To show her their farm
An inheritance
Saw to them as excellence
Kept with family
Drifting through like doves
Apple pie carried with love
Family is home
Categories:
ekphrastic, family, farm, fruit, husband, love, marriage, wife,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Bowls 'n' bags 'n'
branches 'n' trees
Orchards 'n' lives 'n'
meanings and needs
Taste the sweet meat of
Prunus avium - Bing,
Sweetheart, Rainier, Tulare
the tart, the sweet
the redness - a treat
A bowl, a bag,
by hand-to-mouth
to suck - to chew
to rave - to espouse
© Goode Guy 2013-11-18
ekphrastic for 2013-11-24 at
the Charles Taylor Art Museum of
watercolor "A Bag Full" by Gemma B. Wallace
Categories:
ekphrastic, art, food, fruit,
Form:
Ekphrasis
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 beauty, lost.
'Tis said to Keats that much is owed,
Ekphrastic images that flowed.
Long cent'ries since, high praise still earned,
Yet reading Keats, I found I yearned
For yellow wood, divergent roads,
Trips taken through an early Frost.
Categories:
ekphrastic, poems, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
without a rocking-chair in sight
ol' Tam or Tom rules the roost
guarding henhouse since the fox lit out
and the door fell off its hinges
'n' all the hens cackle nervously about
wondering what tale to tell will
Felis catus softly howl tonight
to lull them nestling to defenseless
© Goode Guy 2013-08-05
for Marianne McKee's print
for the Charles Taylor Arts Center
ekphrastic poetry event 2013-08-11
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken
Categories:
ekphrastic, animal, introspection,
Form:
Ekphrasis