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The Spider And The Swan
Svanen, 1914 - Hilma af Klint Spinnerets clutched,holding her pearls,a huntress, mother,camouflaged, waitingeight eyes, a pair of foursdealt face-up in the dust. She stretches the skyfrom sunset to Olympus.Behold Cygnus in white,feather-gilded majesty,queen of the stars,holding a pair of kings.Between furrow and firmament,between pearl and feather,the age-old gamblea mother waging a betfor a better tomorrowFor Today's Dverse, Mish is having us write a poem contrasting 2 of several images. […]https://thetigressawakes.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/the-spider-and-the-swan/
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The Spider And The Swan
Svanen, 1914 - Hilma af Klint Spinnerets clutched,holding her pearls,a huntress, mother,camouflaged, waitingeight eyes, a pair of foursdealt face-up in the dust. She stretches the skyfrom sunset to Olympus.Behold Cygnus in white,feather-gilded majesty,queen of the stars,holding a pair of kings.Between furrow and firmament,between pearl and feather,the age-old gamblea mother waging a betfor a better tomorrowFor Today's Dverse, Mish is having us write a poem contrasting 2 of several images. […]https://thetigressawakes.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/the-spider-and-the-swan/
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The Spider And The Swan
Svanen, 1914 - Hilma af Klint Spinnerets clutched,holding her pearls,a huntress, mother,camouflaged, waitingeight eyes, a pair of foursdealt face-up in the dust. She stretches the skyfrom sunset to Olympus.Behold Cygnus in white,feather-gilded majesty,queen of the stars,holding a pair of kings.Between furrow and firmament,between pearl and feather,the age-old gamblea mother waging a betfor a better tomorrowFor Today's Dverse, Mish is having us write a poem contrasting 2 of several images. […]https://thetigressawakes.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/the-spider-and-the-swan/
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The Spider And The Swan
Svanen, 1914 - Hilma af Klint Spinnerets clutched,holding her pearls,a huntress, mother,camouflaged, waitingeight eyes, a pair of foursdealt face-up in the dust. She stretches the skyfrom sunset to Olympus.Behold Cygnus in white,feather-gilded majesty,queen of the stars,holding a pair of kings.Between furrow and firmament,between pearl and feather,the age-old gamblea mother waging a betfor a better tomorrowFor Today's Dverse, Mish is having us write a poem contrasting 2 of several images. […]https://thetigressawakes.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/the-spider-and-the-swan/
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The Spider And The Swan
Svanen, 1914 - Hilma af Klint Spinnerets clutched,holding her pearls,a huntress, mother,camouflaged, waitingeight eyes, a pair of foursdealt face-up in the dust. She stretches the skyfrom sunset to Olympus.Behold Cygnus in white,feather-gilded majesty,queen of the stars,holding a pair of kings.Between furrow and firmament,between pearl and feather,the age-old gamblea mother waging a betfor a better tomorrowFor Today's Dverse, Mish is having us write a poem contrasting 2 of several images. […]https://thetigressawakes.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/the-spider-and-the-swan/
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"... he does warn students in his Elements
of Chemistry that 'over-inhalation of the gas
can be fatal.'”Read "Classical Gas", a new #histfic #ekphrastic #poem by James Penha
https://sites.google.com/view/sundial-magazine/poems/classical-gas
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The Boy That Stole Butter
“Krishna and Yashoda Milking Cow” Raja Ravi Varma Heritage Foundation Before millions of people chanted his nameBefore his famous talk as a brave charioteerThere were chores to attendFields and fences to tendYashoda up before dawnMilking a very patient cow Thinking about planting grainthe fence post leaning againhow everything breaksjust a little bit at a time Krishna stood there half asleep barefoot with matted hairA hungry child gigglingTrying to catch the swatting tailThe milk sings […]https://thetigressawakes.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/the-boy-that-stole-butter/
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Spent Saturday in LaConner with Alison, gorgeous day. Sat in on a poetry workshop at the NoMA, and walked out with an ekphrastic poem. Will share it on Patreon's free tier soon. #poetry #ekphrastic
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heavy impasto
the idea of canvas
in fields of wheatAlan Summers
Publication credit:
Presence issue #81 (Spring 2025)
ed. Ian Storr"A salute to Van Gogh"
#haiku #ekphrastic #poetry -
day 27 poem is "International congress of fascists": https://thirtypoem.wordpress.com/2024/04/27/international-congress-of-fascists/
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day 22 poem is "Heat exchanger": https://thirtypoem.wordpress.com/2024/04/22/heat-exchanger/
an excerpt:
>"Strapped for shells that cost greater due to alphabet cartel boss parts-labour recouped from insurrection spoils later"#poetry #poem #napowrimo #writing #ekphrasis #ekphrastic #rhymes #rhyming
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Who among us *hasn't* been moved to write poetry about Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon?
#poetry #thetrip #winterbottom #coogan #brydon #GentlemenToBed #film #ekphrastic
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here we go again - just started another #ekphrastic #petrarchan #sonnet sequence based on the ukiyo-e prints of #hiroshige. (if you like this sort of thing, i recently released a whole ebook - alexguentherpoetry.wordpress.com) #poem #poems #poetry #sonnets
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“Joy” by Melissa Madenski
Have you ever felt this way? I have...
#loss #Ekphrastic #poetry
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#ekphrastic! Join me for a workshop with
@sagetyrtle at Crow Collective on Saturday! I promise it'll be lots of fun and you'll get lots written. #writerscommunity #WritingCommunity #flashfiction #poetrycommunity #workshopEKPHRASTIC ENCOUNTERS
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Taking Ekphrasis One Step Further
‘The Sky Wrapped in Darkness’ is the first poem and artwork from my series ‘Queerifying The Classics’.
This series writes back to Pablo Neruda’s Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Dispair.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/queerifying-the-classics-a6e9d0bd0502
#LGBTQ #Ekphrastic #Tattoo #Pride -
Taking Ekphrasis One Step Further
‘The Sky Wrapped in Darkness’ is the first poem and artwork from my series ‘Queerifying The Classics’.
This series writes back to Pablo Neruda’s Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Dispair.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/queerifying-the-classics-a6e9d0bd0502
#LGBTQ #Ekphrastic #Tattoo #Pride -
For my #writers: #submissions open for collaboration with The Phillips Collection
#ekphrastic #writing submissions due April 4
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my sequence on #hiroshige's #tokaido is OUT NOW! edo-period #japan meets 55 #ekphrastic #petrarchan #sonnets. purchase / info links via alexguentherpoetry.wordpress.com to etsy (best place to buy from), amazon, & apple books. DM about review copies! #poetry #poems #poem #japan #ukiyo-e #sonnet #sonnets
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my sequence on #hiroshige's #tokaido is OUT NOW! edo-period #japan meets 55 #ekphrastic #petrarchan #sonnets. purchase / info links via alexguentherpoetry.wordpress.com to etsy (best place to buy from), amazon, & apple books. DM about review copies! #poetry #poems #poem #japan #ukiyo-e #sonnet #sonnets
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friends! friends of the #sonnet! just checking final PDF & EPUB versions of my sequence on #hiroshige's #tokaido. edo-period #japan meets 55 #ekphrastic #petrarchan #sonnets! coming in a few days via alexguentherpoetry.wordpress.com to etsy, amazon, & apple books. DM about review copies! #poem #poems #poetry
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friends! friends of the #sonnet! just checking final PDF & EPUB versions of my sequence on #hiroshige's #tokaido. edo-period #japan meets 55 #ekphrastic #petrarchan #sonnets! coming in a few days via alexguentherpoetry.wordpress.com to etsy, amazon, & apple books. DM about review copies! #poem #poems #poetry
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a brief interlude
splendid autumn rendezvous
mutual respectPhoto & Words be by me
Pd Lietz#SuperBowlSunday #Owl #Sunday #BirdOfPrey #Predator
#Avian #WildLifePhotography
#Birds #Wildlife #Nature #Freedom
#PhotographyIsArt #ArtMatters
#JoinIn #Haiku #Ekphrastic #Poetry #BorealForest #PhotographyOnMastodon
#SuperbOwlSunday -
a brief interlude
splendid autumn rendezvous
mutual respectPhoto & Words be by me
Pd Lietz#SuperBowlSunday #Owl #Sunday #BirdOfPrey #Predator
#Avian #WildLifePhotography
#Birds #Wildlife #Nature #Freedom
#PhotographyIsArt #ArtMatters
#JoinIn #Haiku #Ekphrastic #Poetry #BorealForest #PhotographyOnMastodon
#SuperbOwlSunday -
The Shepherd of Hermas Man. 11.1.20
A bit of itinerant hail
Attains an impulse to impale.
Perennial drops
Disintegrate rocks;
Celestial jetsam prevails. -
The #Ekphrastic Review has a number of poems and stories prompted by Steff Rocknak’s sculpture, “Poe Returns to Boston”
https://www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrastic-challenges/stef-rocknak-ekphrastic-writing-responses
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A poem about the fable of two monks helping a woman cross a river.
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A poem about the Tower of Babel.
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we weren't religious
one day of seven we'd rest
but for the milking
cows and barn now long gone
house boards ache with memoriesPd Photos & Words
#TogetherApart #NotAlone
#MoodyMonday #Monday #PhotoMonday #Haiku #Photography #Abandon #Building #Farm #Snow #Winter #SmallWriting #Tanka #Writing
#SimplePonders
#MondayMemories
#Country #CanadianPrairie #Canada #Prairie
#Ekphrastic #Artists
#EkphrasticPoetry -
we weren't religious
one day of seven we'd rest
but for the milking
cows and barn now long gone
house boards ache with memoriesPd Photos & Words
#TogetherApart #NotAlone
#MoodyMonday #Monday #PhotoMonday #Haiku #Photography #Abandon #Building #Farm #Snow #Winter #SmallWriting #Tanka #Writing
#SimplePonders
#MondayMemories
#Country #CanadianPrairie #Canada #Prairie
#Ekphrastic #Artists
#EkphrasticPoetry -
My response to Paul Brookes’ This Day photo prompt is up at The Wombwell Rainbow now!
https://thewombwellrainbow.com/2022/12/04/created-responses-to-this-day-david-garbutt-responds-to-one-of-my-this-day-images-i-would-love-to-feature-your-responses-too/
How is your day going?#ekphrastic #poetry #DinosaurSkeleton #voices #monochrome_photography
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A photograph of moss and a mushroom growing on a stump beside our back porch. It returned, again and again, for several years. Entrancing beauty, grown from decay.
I wrote a poem about it, "Fairyland," picked up by The Adriatic Magazine, Issue 4, "Pride," June 2021: https://www.theadriatic.co/issue-four-pride
#FungiFriday #fungi #mycology #photography #ekphrastic #verse #poetry #writing #WritingPrompts #poetsofmastodon
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Hey, I have a #poem published today on the web :-) an #ekphrastic #poetry that responds to photo by Paul Brookes https://thewombwellrainbow.com/2022/11/23/created-responses-to-this-day-photos-dave-garbutt-responds-to-one-of-my-this-day-images-i-would-love-to-feature-your-responses-too/