Monday, October 31, 2016

Monday Poetry Stretch - Ekphrastic

Since it's Halloween, it seemed appropriate to suggest we write about this image.
Shapes of Fear by Maynard Dixon (1930-32)
Smithsonian American Art Museum

So, there's your challenge for the week. Please share a link to your poem or the poem itself in the comments.

7 comments:

  1. October Night

    Well met, phantom,
    well met, wraith,
    well met, haunt
    without a face.

    Slip with shadows,
    turn and spin,
    sneak and glide
    with autumn wind.

    Bring the darkness
    down the lane,
    slide and fall
    with autumn rain.

    Catch the nightmares,
    bring them here,
    dance with death
    and waltz with fear.

    —Kate Coombs, 2016
    all rights reserved.

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  2. Wisdom of the desert…

    This is the way. Don’t listen when
    they say it’s not. Turn your brilliant
    faces, cover them and go the way
    you must. Save yourself for eyes that
    see. Do not waste your beauty on the
    circling birds of prey who’d pick your
    bones and leave them parch. You
    walk on glass ceilings, now returned
    to sand. Step by step you will make
    it. Stay close. Step by step. Spare
    your dire predictions. Tend each other
    well. You'll not always be the tree. Sometimes
    you’re the shade. Know which is which. You
    will find wisdom in this desert.

    © 2016 Judith Robinson, all rights reserved.

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  3. Realized my poem would work better in couplets:

    October Night

    Well met, phantom, well met, wraith,
    well met, haunt without a face.

    Slip with shadows, turn and spin,
    sneak and glide with autumn wind.

    Bring the darkness down the lane,
    slide and fall with autumn rain.

    Catch the nightmares, bring them here,
    dance with death and waltz with fear.

    —Kate Coombs, 2016
    all rights reserved.

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    1. Kate, I'm struck at the difference in mood created by your choice of couplets. Really haunting. j

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