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An ekphrasis poem is a form of poetry concerning itself with the visual arts, artistic objects, and/or highly visual scenes, but there is more to ekphrasis. What is ekphrasis in poetry (complete definition)?

A llama

Image by James Valvis there's a couple of things that won't happen here 1. we won't see eye to eye 2. I won't accept my pseudo status my plans involve solely ruminating on a ghost identity - whether that's...Read the rest...

It's All About the Promotion

It was never about the suit, the charcoal stitching, the pocket square that folds itself, the red tie I swore was alive. At first, it just sat there— hooves crossed, ears like knives stabbing into the conference room light. It never spoke,...Read the rest...

Clover's In the Bottom Right-Hand Corner Doing Her Best with What Circumstance Brought Her

The ruffle of fleece at her neck makes her feel manufactured, not born— brushstrokes of windswept wool, all soft edges and curves the color of old milk. Her lips were no artist's accident, nor the smirk as she lurks in the corner...Read the rest...

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Strayed Sheep

I see the sea. The odds at sea, ...Read the rest...

Reflections of Conversation - Roy Lichtenstein

billions of atoms go eye to eye, staring long enough for cellular renewal but not a change of heart ~ with its septillions of atoms. I'm disappearing. missing crucial elements: colour...Read the rest...

The Rose II Cy Twombly

I know nothing of the scrawl the meaning of it all it escapes me as my breath is drawn no words please to forewarn ...Read the rest...

I lock my door upon myself, Fernand Khnopff

growing on stalks that become brittle holding form right up until disintegration effort made to square everything up make sense of it through staring eyes stopping only when Hypnos ...Read the rest...

Absinthe - Van Gogh

I let my mind swim until merely my components gaze longingly past the bottle's content losing self to become...Read the rest...

L Fengmian - Birds

cosy and cooing, nestled up with kin you'd think it'd stop bad thoughts getting in but I step off to the side, get isolated start overthinking, get quite captivated it's like I'm an expert on self attack set my...Read the rest...

ETHEREAL ABSTRACTIONS

an enigmatic     esoteric experimental   process with  innate distilled satisfaction intricate  tangents   of chaotic immediacy ennounced an essence of abstract      phenomena  of vagueness  In an open-ended happening of concepts  & fragments  in perplexing characterisation ...Read the rest...

Woman Clothed with the Sun - Alice Pike Barney draft

It's all the ways darkness drapes Showing where light is in reality How it's part and parcel I can't look at myself But I see a reflection from your eyes Sat in a circle We can tell each who...Read the rest...

A SURREAL ABSTRACTION

compelling     dreamlike  captivates &unfolds infuses  with the dynamic hybrid  interpretation  expressiveness   in a mixed     narrative upon a canvas of  the  atmospheric recesses of  the subconscious where inspiration  transcend the ordinary &  delves into  the symbolic prompts imaginative &collective  meaning evoking narrative  emotions  in a lexicon  of eniched intensity...Read the rest...

The Path into the Blue - Paul Klee

unknown like undress into a once was state tangle ~ to become ~ risk unbecoming... lightning bolt struck skull constricted...Read the rest...

Gust of Wind on the Seine Bridge - Louis Anquetin

Tethered to the omnibus, weathering storms ~ lean into it, hang on, become the wisp. As perception shapes and shifts, our eyes sting, blind spots get filled in; create echo...Read the rest...

Still Life, with Tulips and Fruit Bowl - Suzanne Valadon

what I stem from in view the too small pot with too little soil yet, I appear whole, to have grown placed between things to balance my God, it works to provide support the moments of perfection, so brief! I must...Read the rest...

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Definition | What is Ekphrasis in Poetry?

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