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Ekphrasis Poems | Ekphrasis Examples

Premium Member Water Serpent's I - Klimt
suckled into gentle sleep softness finessed understood waves lap cares drift seaweed untangles lets us...Read the rest...
Categories: art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member SKY ALBUM
Sky album opens as day dawns displaying ...Read the rest...
Categories: sky,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member Tardigrade
Tardigrade Consider the lowly Tardigrade To survive any environment, it is tailor made Commonly known as the water bear This handsome creature can live any where From underground to the vacuum of space It is no threat to the human race Unless,...Read the rest...
Categories: humorous,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Death Defeated
Death Defeated The tomb could not hold Him Death is defeated The promise of new life is fulfilled ...Read the rest...
Categories: jesus,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member It Is Finished
It Is Finished His body abused His blood shed Our sin forgiven ...Read the rest...
Categories: jesus,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member thinking about Fractured Fairytales
trapped in skeletal arms of the wolverine forest, I crave rose-scents from the corpse crescent, seeing through the portal of pained pupils, written with cinder-gold between lethal lines of nostalgic nightfall, about sunsets woven in angst, from...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, deep, emotions,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Each Star Has a Pattern of its Own
Each Star Has a Pattern of its Own Each star is a jewel set in its place by the Creator of the universe. His hand carefully cut each facet to give each star its own identity. Each star has its...Read the rest...
Categories: creation, stars,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Thinking About Bread -Manna
On one old album cover from my early high school days, four young men pose casually in the center doorway of a weathered beige adobe-looking building with some cracks in its walls. From left to right, they are dressed...Read the rest...
Categories: music,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member The Telescope - Magritte
I cannot scream at the laws of the universe ...Read the rest...
Categories: art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Thinking About Juju
God or voodoo, I cannot decide Spiritual witch doctor, spellbinding inside Possibly made of stone or wood Resting on a rocky column On sacred ground you may of stood Horns on your head point...Read the rest...
Categories: music,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Thinking About Abbey Road Album Cover
The Fab Four crossing Abbey Road in single file, led by John in white suit and shoes, followed by Ringo in black suit and shoes, bare footed Paul in gray suit and George in denim and white...Read the rest...
Categories: art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Ophelie - Paul Albert Steck
Contest Format Sorrowful becomes dead weight as I tire from the haunting of my fate sinking may not bring me peace ...Read the rest...
Categories: art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member HUIT CENT quarantieme
VEXED VARIATIONS threadbare & simple ambiguous austere cutting-edge succeeding in deepest intervals experimntal immobilities profundity in chance encounters condescencion eccentric harmonies resonate in exigous endurance sans audible ...Read the rest...
Categories: music,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Thinking About Daylight
"Album Daylight by Jonathan Patterson" - Quote by Poet In the precinct of sprawling emptiness, curved out by the contours of desolation, the spreading daylight of prime promise bursts with the brilliance of magnificence, creating the serrated...Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, dream, memory,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member This Is What I Call A Loyal Love
Fur bounds, through the cottony breeze, to me. On a warm, summery day, the scent of dog resounds. A wet nose, commiserate smile and hug. Against my skin, he reclines. I’m always home with him. His eyes, see not, purple flowers...Read the rest...
Categories: dog,
Form: Ekphrasis

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