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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)?

To Add One Meter to an Anonymous Mountain - Zhang Huan

Form: swap quatrain/senyru utilised for experimental haibun Inspired by a photograph from the performance piece: "To Add One Meter to an Anonymous Mountain" by Zhang Huan "Beyond the mountain, there are mountains" Traditional Chinese Proverb stop and analyse,...Read the rest...

Emily Dickinson

She passed away upon a day Where silence lie in sullen vein Where whispered notions plant a seed Of all the words penned in belief Hoping a man would come to see A well lit road clear and...Read the rest...

The Living Rose

Love is a rose, but you'd better not pick it Only grows when it's on the vine Handful of thorns and you know you've missed it Lose your love when you say the word mine By Linda Ronstadt The Living...Read the rest...

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Vase of Peonies - Claude Monet

every illusion starts with a wish or a hope perhaps, and mine is this that I'm the hundreds of petals that remain and with each petal lost I won't feel this pain abundance is missed when eyes look to...Read the rest...

My Wandering Eye

Each brush stroke sparks a fire Burning endless miles As one man sits in silence Looking back through his life Deep within his mind a memory set in time Resurfacing through his life A masterpiece Lost in time Taken from...Read the rest...

Pulling

To mingle with your affairs A thought....locked in a stare A dynamic explosion With movement and motion A moment I've come to share As if to inhibit A mind set at ease I splash a daring brush stroke To capture your need To...Read the rest...

The Double Secret - Magritte 20 minute draft

firstly notice the neatly combed hair arms and hands would be needed for that I detect something amiss the breadth of those shoulders not those of a keen swimmer how location and the individual attributes conflict whilst beauty is only...Read the rest...

The Nostalgia of the Infinite by Giorgio de Chirico -10 minute draft

round and round we go on ladders looking straight ahead, feeling lopsided believing this lack of synchronicity is ours to shoulder we meet a fool, listen to their perspective lengthen our steps to go nowhere each pre-determined vantage...Read the rest...

Stella not a Gal

Stella not a gal yelled for in passion but a guy passionately painting my eyes go back and forth in lines and curlicues in lighting and floral propensity irises flicker voyaging North and South East and West without rest strange fountainlike fantasy links with my mind birds intertwine vanilla egrets alongside imitate the...Read the rest...

The Commonplace - Magritte

mark reality by a notch in a tree honest recognition of the not dissimilar I wish I wouldn't notice so much - try...Read the rest...

The Tower of Blue Horses Painting by Franz Marc

a mane shake might shift perspective create an illusion of ~ precarious balance as flickers of the same construct momentarily separate ...Read the rest...

The Lady of the Night

The Lady of the Night Alone, Luna dominates the sky, glowing from Sol’s reflected light. Her mares, dark blotches set against the white light. She is the queen of the night sky, full face proudly displayed. Strange things are said to happen when...Read the rest...

Winter Wonderland

Winter Wonderland Winter wonderland, white icing on brown cake, mister nor’easter’s icy breath, snow- tires spin helplessly, caught in eider down drifts, I would rather be in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina! ...Read the rest...

Bird in Space sculpture by Constantin Brancusi

when we're the very essence of a thing strangulated to shed the extraneous released to float freely without entity making us dull or brittle would we strip away the entirety of thought willingly forget whether we ever flew or...Read the rest...

My Home

My Home here is my home this is all I own ...Read the rest...

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