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Ekphrastic Challenge, Nov 13
« Thread Started on Oct 16, 2008, 2:51am »

Ekphrastic Challenge for November 13th

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The Widow
Carol Hoorn Fraser, 1963

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Re: Ekphrastic Challenge, Nov 13
« Reply #1 on Nov 15, 2008, 3:33am »

without her
I'm half a person
and lonesome

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Re: Ekphrastic Challenge, Nov 13
« Reply #2 on Nov 16, 2008, 11:20pm »

My first ever triolet!

TRIOLET FOR A PASSAGE

I keep my love of you
like the roses you left in this vase
though their time was through.
I keep my love of you,
the stain of the water’s residue,
a truth that stays.
I keep my love of you
like the roses you left in this vase.

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Re: Ekphrastic Challenge, Nov 13
« Reply #3 on Nov 23, 2008, 5:28pm »

At Graveside

Shade without sun,
she casts a
grey shimmer
as she steps
from the cinder
of jagged vale.

Behind her shroud,
a bony sepulcher
of face.

In her hands, the soft
ligament of loss,
blanched before
the tawny
rupture of roses.

After “The Widow” by Carol Hoorn Fraser

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Re: Ekphrastic Challenge, Nov 13
« Reply #4 on Nov 23, 2008, 10:38pm »

That last stanza of "At Gravesite" is pure music -- you cannot say it aloud and not be moved. Thanks for this! And thanks for the haiku and the triolet, the latter of which I've never tried, but may have to!

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