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​Self Portrait Seen in Floral Queen, by Portly Bard

11/13/2018

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The Chrysanthemum Queen, by Lorette C. Luzajic (Canada). 2018. Click image for artist site.
​Self Portrait Seen in Floral Queen

No image have I ever seen
more faithfully as mirror glean
the essence of creative soul
so by its art becoming whole

as in the lilt of floral queen
whose realm is her imagined scene
where colors effervesce as breath
of life, though still, immune to death

and borders of reality
confront originality
within which she can juxtapose
emotions as if embryos

to cast as seed to wind that nigh
so makes it seem that she can fly.

Portly Bard

Portly Bard: Old man. Ekphrastic fan. 
 
Prefers to craft with sole intent
of verse becoming complement...
...and by such homage being lent...
ideally also compliment.
2 Comments
Cynthia Pitman
11/13/2018 09:27:02 am

I think this poem is absolutely beautiful! "[C]olors effervesce as breath," "emotions as if embryos" -- just beautiful.

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Portly Bard
11/14/2018 04:00:39 pm

Cynthia --

I appeciate your poet-to-poet comment more than you could know.

I have been, for some time, piecing together a set of poems about the nature of our craft. One of them speaks specifically to the elation of knowing we have been heard.

That is one of the many things, perhaps the most significant, that makes The Ekphrastic Review such a precious gift.

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