Chiseled jaw, high cheekbones.Tired eyes glance sideways,energy depleted. Joyless.Her exquisitely shaped lipsrouged deepest red.Closed, not pursed, yet somehow gentle.Dark tendrils hang beside her …| lillian the home poet
It was an easy choice to kick off 2024 with an ekphrastic challenge. Writing about or in conversation with a piece of art automatically gives a poet several places to begin:What do you first notice? What lingers with you after you look away? Is there more to the story, things beneath the surface that you're curious about? What questions would you ask the art or the artist if you could? | Read Write Believe
Fairy rock, Iceland| Read Write Believe
Running Free There is no freedom like the freedom to run free Horses pounding down the breakers attacking their hooves Running into the wind leaving no footprints behind A trinity of spirit drivin…| Roth Poetry
Scoliated spine of sedimentary rock Buckling under the pressure from above Twisted and bent from cataclysmic upheaval Folded seabed layers long buried, now revealed in the sides of this New York mo…| Roth Poetry
Young girls swap stories Enjoying hot summer days Can’t wait to grow up * Photo: Dwight L. Roth| Roth Poetry
