For today’s prompt, write an ekphrastic poem. That is a poem based on a piece of visual art–a painting, a photograph, a sculpture. Your choice. If you have something in mind already, go with it. If not, here are a few images to get you started.
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Here’s my attempt at an Ekphrastic poem:
“A Girl”
He fell for a girl
when he was still young
but couldn’t say the words
so he grabbed a gun
and received a mask,
a spear, and a horse
dreaming of that girl
who married, of course,
another fellow
who lived like a dove
as the hawks fought hard
for their secret loves.
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Content Editor of the Writer’s Digest Writing Community and author of Solving the World’s Problems (Press 53). And he loves ekphrastic poems.
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