Tuesday, May 6, 2025

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[image Georgia O’Keeffe, The Black Iris (1926), oil on canvas, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, gift of The Burnett Foundation: courtesy dVerse Poetry Pub]

 From the atelier window,

I looked out to be absorbed,

By an iris, an abstract work

Of God in the evening shadows,

A vanishing point of day,

Not just a sunset, but more so,

A polychromatic overlap of emotions,

This was the expressionism gift

That later artist would receive

© gillena cox 2025

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH 
We got paintings by Georgia O’Keefe 
as well as a selection of words to use in an ekphrastic poem.


22 comments:

  1. You threw in the words effortlessly, Gillena. I especially love “A polychromatic overlap of emotions” and “an abstract work
    Of God in the evening shadows”

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  2. Thank you for your appreciation Melissa

    Much♡love

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  3. What a great way to write an ekphrastic poem, Gillena, from the artist’s viewpoint, looking out of the atelier window. I especially love the ‘vanishing point of day’ and ‘polychromatic overlap of emotions’.

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  4. Thank you for your appreciation Kim

    Much♡love

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  5. to be absorbed,

    By an iris, an abstract work

    Of God in the evening shadows,

    Your poetry really spoke to my remembered teenage heart (55 years ago now!), Gillena. And I have finally managed to enter comments on your work; praise be the benefits of Google!

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  6. Happy you dropped by Kathy

    Much♡love

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  7. The gift of creativity so well expressed. Thanks.

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    1. Thank you for your appreciation Petru

      Much♡love

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  8. Very clever combining of art and poetry!

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    1. Thank you for your appreciation Nolcha

      Much♡love

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  9. A polychromatic overlap of emotions,..Yes!

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    1. Thank you for your appreciation Judy

      Much♡love

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  10. As Kim say, great to use the artist's POV, Gillena...

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    1. Thank you for your appreciation Frewin

      Much♡love

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  11. Thank you for your appreciation Ain

    Much♡love

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  12. Your incorporation of art terms flowed so naturally into this poem. Lovely, Gillena.

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    1. Thank you for your appreciation Mish

      Much♡love

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  13. Happy you dropped by Yvette

    Much♡love

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  14. Happy you dropped by Punam

    Much♡love

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  15. Excellent, Gillena, especially,
    "‘polychromatic overlap of emotions’."

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  16. Thanks for your appreciation Sara

    Much♡love

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