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Distances1 comment

bitterhermit wrote 7 months ago: Hero's Final Vigil   Distances The distance between you-and-me is less than the ens and ems betw … more →

Tags: Sonnets, Myth, mythology, ekphrasis, Art, Poem, Love Poems, After the Vows, Grief

Rokeby Venus: Ekphrastic Sonnet5 comments

bitterhermit wrote 12 months ago: "Rokeby Venus" by Diego Velasquez c. 1650 What Within the Looking Glass?   Is it truth you … more →

Tags: Art, ekphrasis, explicate this, Love Poems, Myth, mythology, naked, nude, Petrarchan Sonnet

Agony: sonnet on a Ligozzi painting2 comments

bitterhermit wrote 1 year ago: "Agony" by Jacopo Ligozzi   Gardens of Our Own Agony “The Kingdom is within you.” And Sata … more →

Tags: ANGELS, Art, ekphrasis, Esoteric, explicate this, mind alive, Petrarchan Sonnet, Philosophy, Poem

Villanelle for Dawn

bitterhermit wrote 1 year ago: William Adolphe Bouguereau's "Dawn", circa 1881   Wake Me Night’s indigo legions rise … more →

Tags: on the fly, Poems, explicate this, Myth, mythology, nude, ekphrasis, Art, naked

Sacrifices

bitterhermit wrote 1 year ago: "Echo and Narcissus" by John William Waterhouse Beyond the Age of Sacrifice Just what God … more →

Tags: Anecdote, dysfunctional, ekphrasis, Esoteric, explicate this, Family, folklore, Myth, mythology

For Sio (mother2rah.wordpress.com)2 comments

bitterhermit wrote 1 year ago: Wine Seaside and Love and You Perhaps a honeymoon, you and me, two flutes and a bottle of wine. Beac … more →

Tags: Books, Sonnets, on writing, Poems, explicate this, nude, Springfield, Wine, Poetry collections

Lamia's Tale

bitterhermit wrote 1 year ago: Courtesan’s Confession You brought me here a slave, though I was a noblewoman in my own land, a fair … more →

Tags: on the fly, on writing, Poems, mind alive, Myth, mythology, sex, nude, ekphrasis

Red Love4 comments

bitterhermit wrote 1 year ago: Today I Love You Best in Red Once lover to the moon alone, younger, I wrote poems to golden shades a … more →

Tags: Art, Call to Arms, cosmic influence, dysfunctional, ekphrasis, explicate this, Fellow Travelers, Learning, mind alive

Each Verse a Vampiric Kiss2 comments

bitterhermit wrote 1 year ago: "Dante and Virgil in Hell" William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1850 Each Verse a Vampiric Kiss Vir … more →

Tags: ANGELS, Art, Bouguereau, ekphrasis, Esoteric, explicate this, Fellow Travelers, Love Poems, mind alive

Of a naked lady: Sonnet 041007

bitterhermit wrote 2 years ago: Andromeda, on the Rocks What were you thinking at that moment? Here you were waiting for the whale—l … more →

Tags: ekphrasis, explicate this, mind alive, Myth, mythology, nude, on the fly, on writing, Petrarchan Sonnet


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