Ekphrasis Poems | Ekphrasis Examples

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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I 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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Abstractionist Hans Hofmann had a 'minimalist ' attention span Do give his work a peek he just et the 'necessary' speak...

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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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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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Sky album opens as day dawns displaying color spectrum changing colors ...

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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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Death Defeated The tomb could not hold Him Death is defeated The promise of new life is fulfilled ...

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It Is Finished His body abused His blood shed Our sin forgiven ...

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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 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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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 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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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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I cannot scream at the laws of the universe nor begin to understand their impact on me but I'm here ...

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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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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 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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