Song Ekphrasis Poems

Lunar alabaster
gleams beneath the void
The infant’s mind is carved in stone

Neural patterns branch like frost
across the barren surface

Face recognition 
etched in marble relief
The first spark...

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Forging in expectation 
a moment unseen
To enrich her palette 
with emerald and cerulean 

She approaches her stage
a white canvas of snow
As she softy begins a...

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like a waltz with her guilt for a soldier and son

like a foetus that hears and fears fallout’s begun


like the praise for a man who...

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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...

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Spilled from dew drenched petals,
an overflow of laughing ferns
warring with the still forms – graceful 
amazed by the atmosphere of light 
softly woven through the...

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Homeward bound
I wish I was
Homeward bound
Home where my thought's escapin'
Home where my music's playin'
Home where my love lies waitin'
Silently for me    
...

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the intricacies of losing myself are plentiful
as well as beautiful 
any background can take over 
but not affect 
the wall may grimace and disapprove 
I'm...

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I can't merge with the atmosphere 
Nor breathe in the stratosphere 
My feet are off the ground
But I'm still tethered 

Get me away from here!
My...

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Amid the haze, where mist is not sky but mourning,
a stone tower leans like the last pillar of a vanished world.
Roots coil, climbing a ruin’s...

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Hearts hanging on by a thread 
Long exposure photography 
Capturing the twirls of joy
Those hearts spun without knowing
In that lost but lasting moment 
Where self...

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Sitting, knees bumping, fingers tapping
waiting for the Great Wall of China
to move. An angelic rift wafts over
the stereo, calming the boiling rage
bottling up in the...

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Steel should slice through rust
The stringing should slice the fingers
There's no damage to either
Despite the tension
Everything is quite perfect
I'm the balance, not the weight
There is...

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emagi=a digital reverse ekphrasis

Tea for two  by Irving Caesar


 T 4  2...

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I long, just as you do
The comfort of salvation
Exquisiteness, just at the tip of my fingers 
I need not sing my siren song

But I watch...

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VIRGINAL GIRL
begin the beguine..
Make your music mine
LAUGHING GIRL
joy's outflow-from eyes aglow
GIRL WITH EARRING
a look of love-
into eternity's mirror
LACEMAKING GIRL
intricate detail
patient design-
portrait of time
MUSIC GIRL
when the...

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