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Art Ekphrasis Poems

These Art Ekphrasis poems are examples of Ekphrasis poems about Art. These are the best examples of Ekphrasis Art poems written by international poets.

We Rose Up Slowly Lichtenstein

I want to pour myself into you
   reciprocal medicine 
drink me in
    as I am 
  swallowed up in...

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Still Life with Pearls Lichtenstein

you can see anything you want to
                  ...

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The Storm Swept Through

I often write about the ocean. I went to see a museum exhibit, yesterday, “Dutch Art in a Global Age.” The paintings of sailboats on...

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Categories: art, sea, storm,

CLERIHEW LI ecphrasis munch

Munch Red & White*
a perfect pictorial delight
An allegory of types of love some say
look&make of what you may...

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MIRO on the carpet

shock
  in. abundance
transitory
&  irregular
once
refashioned
in
random
  diversity
of
erotic
  existence
yet
deliberate
  innocence
of heart...

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SCAPIGLIATA

Softened
  blurred
&
   unfinished Scapigliata*
  with 
dishevelled hair
 an unidentified
 woman
    gazing downward 
her hair fills 
the eye 
...

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CIPHERS

ciphers of the unknown * A MIRO EKPHRASIS

 red dots,
a frog
blue
  coins
a violet fish
    in the deep blue
 rain falls
breathes
 in  black
  & love with rainbows
 spiral down
  to  caress
blue velvet
where
  yellow butterflies
reside
& poppies grow
&a red carnation
 bursts
  then smiles
at the crescent
 moon
 a drop of dew
    upon the shadow
of a spiders web
brush
the firmament...

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CLERIHEW L ecphrasis rossetti

Danr Gabriel Rossetti
sprinkled girls on canvas as confetti
Painting with sensuality
his muses as here* may see
...

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Perceived Vantage Point

This poem is inspired by Jeff Ripple's painting titled 'Stormy Weather'. You can find the link to the painting at the bottom of the page,...

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CLERHEW XLIX ecphrasis zecchin

Artist Vittorio Zecchin
the italian klimt paradigm
with alladin wedding scene
also with glass was supreme
...

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CLERIHEW XLVIII ecphrasis waterhouse

John William Waterhouse
His Ophelia* not his spouse
but was Esther an artist in her day
exhibiting also at the R&A...

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CLERIHEW XLVII ecphrasis rodin

Rodin so expresive
tactile & creative
in The Old Courtesan* en plein air
his  'intense truth' laid ' bare'...

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CLERIHEW XLVI ecphrasis malevich

Prolific Kasmir Malevich
a diverse talent so very rich
'Resting*'with figuarative guile
a contrast with his abstract style...

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Large Blue Anthropometry 105 by Yves Klein

dispose of considerations 
of dress or undress
whether skill lies in you or I
microcosmic resonance 
energy felt, reverberating 
forever more

this canvas is more 
it's the evidence...

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word U S P XII lowry

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