Category: ekphrastic
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Miz Quickly’s Day 21: Repurpose
A Poem Starting with a Line by Stephen Yenser Drip Nervy, sparrow-like,hair receding,watery eyes,milky brown,tinny squeal in one ear,hooked nose like a hose that’s dripping,thickened wrist,her watch stopped ticking,she’s counting days,ignores the years,a small child’s voice in her head she hears. Written to prompt by Miz Quickly “Repurpose” Day 21. Inspired by the poem Preserves by Stephen…
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Ekphrastic Poetry Challenge #15
The Commonality of Layers The rain that binds was medicine,acid burnt and limping beige.Memories pressed between. Cut and cropped like lacywings prised off butterflies.A cult of layers for a girl who caught a butterflyin her hands. Held it tight, rightnear her ear. But when she couldn’thear it breathe,she assumed it dead, ‘though its wings still…
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Miz Quickly’s Coup d’œil Owl
Coup d’œil there’s silver in my hair,the real me melted awayin a coup d’œil and just like that,another day went badly. my youth astray, awaywith a wink and a grinuntil it was all too late. for Miz Quickly’s Animal Prompt, Image: “The Owl” by Huang Yongyu © Misky 2021
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for VV February 2021
I Am Adrift … And just want to un-write what was just sent, and thinking,Isn’t there an I-take-it-back emoji. Andwhere’s the Undo? Oh, if pigs, all pink andsquealing could fly, we’d all be in the clouds. Hiding. Funny, how silence can be a flared-throat.Hissing.How it can throw you off a cliff. Silence,and her mystery was…
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Hunters in the Snow: A Bird on a Limb
A Bird on a Limb in Hunters in the Snow A bird, the colour of old paint,sings a rusty-hinge tune. Skips a note.Its song has a sticky piano key. The air waits.No reply. No chorus. No riff. There’s a sniff of change in the air.Or is it the bird’s ab lib… A bird, the colour…
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Netherlandish Proverbs: The Man with the Fake Beard
The Crutch In a thirst for a god,we fell in with a manwearing a fake beard. He was a crutch in the corner.A dark sycamore.He was horizon bound. He played the crowd, and then turned his attention on the universe. Ekphrastic poetry. Image P. Bruegel Netherlandish Proverbs cc:00 © Misky 2021
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23 January 2021: Ekphrastic
Too Early First crocus.Bright as a struck match.A blinded flamein the frost, and robbedof its thin white dress. Wikiart Hope of a Condemned Man III, 1974 by Joan Miró. Shared with @Experimentsinfc #APoemADay on Twitter © Misky 2021
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22 January 2021
When We Were Young We’d runand ride the leaves, sing duetswith the breeze. We were luck, likeleprechaun green, and no thief of timeever intervened. Ekphrastic Poetry shared with @Experimentsinfc #APoemADay on Twitter © Misky 2021
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Double Quadrille (88 Words) for dVerse Poets
Bruegel Narrates Hunters in the Snow Down by the stony roadwhere the trees growsnowy twigs, and the frozencreek babbles in its bafflingstring-like voice, and tinyflickering candles defythe winter gloom from thatchedroof houses, and the north windscrapes an alto low moan from God’s own rudder-spiked mountains that spill chills on the good brothersof the monastery, whereonly…
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9 January 2021: Frog Talk
Frog Talk it’s that sound thatimitates a voice that frowns,or maybe it just sings out noise, if anything at all. shared with @Experimentsinfc #APoemADay on Twitter © Misky 2021
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