Starts and beginnings 3: Ekphrastic poetry

This week we are tackling poetry about other forms of art. A great example is Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats. Here’s my offering.

The Persistance of Memory. 

Salvador Dali.

I don’t understand what I’m looking at

But it has me completely in its thrall.

A clock draped over the branch of a tree.

Another one is melting down a wall.

Is that your face in the middle of this?

I see an eye, a nose and a moustache.

Off in the distance a cliff and a beach.

A shore where the real and the surreal clash

I don’t understand what I’m looking at.

But know that I’m completely mesmerised.

You have awoken something inside me

And I walk away from this energised.

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