Christian Marclay’s The Clock - quick draft
the actual time is merely a notion
to see time as an experience elevates
watching time becomes hypnotic
fixed for a moment, yet time happened, happens, happening
I must and mustn't view it
it'll take my minutes, I'll gift them for a seat
I won't ask for them back, not in the moment
but later, when I know how...
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Categories:
art,
Form: Ekphrasis
The Amorous Perspective - MagritteI see the wood from the trees is taken
they bare no malice in their spent state
just disappear
leaving a lonely landscape
I linger in the drafting of possibilities
how protection was a door
how I gave back the...
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Categories:
art,
Form: Ekphrasis
CLERIHEW hofmannAbstractionist Hans Hofmann
had a 'minimalist ' attention span
Do give his work a peek
he just et the 'necessary' speak...
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Categories:
art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Talking about Broken China
For Di11y Da11y’s contest – Ekphrasis on Album Cover
O2/04/2025
Broken China is the second solo and final album by Pink Floyd’s keyboardist Richard Wright – it is a concept album based on Richard’s then wife Mildred’s battle with depression
Breaking water ripples beneath the moon,
A night of a thousand furry toys
scattered across the floor of her...
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Categories:
appreciation, depression,
Form: Ekphrasis
Water Serpent's I - Klimt
suckled into gentle sleep
softness
finessed
understood
waves lap
cares drift
seaweed untangles
lets us be
each grain of sand fits together
creating dunes
...
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Categories:
art,
Form: Ekphrasis
SKY ALBUM
Categories:
sky,
Form: Ekphrasis
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, it mutates and does grow
Then it looks like it could be a ferocious foe
****modeled on Ogden Nash Style*****...
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Categories:
humorous,
Form: Ekphrasis
Death DefeatedDeath Defeated
The tomb could not hold Him
Death is defeated
The promise of new life is fulfilled
...
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Categories:
jesus,
Form: Ekphrasis
It Is Finished
Categories:
jesus,
Form: Ekphrasis
thinking about Fractured Fairytalestrapped 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 stone-cold tears
s u p p r e s s e d
within crawling clouds before onyx rain…
and must I scribble sonnets...
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Categories:
angst, deep, emotions,
Form: Ekphrasis
Each Star Has a Pattern of its OwnEach 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 own color
red, blue, white, yellow.
Some have no color at all
only exist as brown dwarfs.
From birth to death, each star
has its...
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Categories:
creation, stars,
Form: Ekphrasis
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 in western shirts
blue, black, and brown respectively.
The center guy is crouched down, arms on his thighs
wearing a white shirt and...
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Categories:
music,
Form: Ekphrasis
The Telescope - MagritteI cannot scream
at the laws
of the universe
nor begin to understand
their impact on me
but I'm here
...
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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 east and west
On one there is a face impressed
Angel or Devil it is not clear
A cone in...
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Categories:
music,
Form: Ekphrasis
Thinking About Abbey Road Album CoverThe 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 shoes, all in synced with left
foot forward, except Paul and their short shadows inside the crossing.
Tree and parked car lined...
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Categories:
art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Specific Types of Ekphrasis Poems
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