My poem “Hallowed Be” is among the responses to Goya’s “El Conjuro” posted today at The Ekphrastic Review.
As it’s Draw a Bird Day, I’ve enlisted the newly returned birdlings for my collage response (along with some actual birds and the moon).
You can see Goya’s painting and read my poem, and all the other responses, here. My thanks to editor Lorette Luzajic for once again including my work in this bi-weekly challenge
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Congratulations, Kerfe. Having wings to face the unknown would not be a bad thing.
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No it wouldn’t. Thanks Ken.
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Neat and cool, i remember that 1
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Thanks!
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Congratulations, Kerfe!
(And I’m glad the birdlings have been found.)
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Thanks Merril. Me too.
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Of all the poems, I rate yours the highest. Simple and effective. The contrast with the others is striking.
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Thanks Jane. I thought it wouldn’t be accepted because it’s not literal enough to the Goya work, but I was pleased to see it included.
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That is common to the ekphrastic challenges I’ve seen—the preferred poems seem to be just verbose descriptions of what we can all see in the painting, using obscure language as a substitute for original interpretation.
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Yes that lack of precision in language seems to pass for secret insight.
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The more often you have to get out the dictionary or reread the phrase to find a subject and an object the cleverer it is.
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Kerfe, I like how you wrote your own Sermon on the Mount and that your poem goes full circle, back to the fools. Is the owl in your collage the one you were talking about posting? I love how you refashioned the Goya with your collage.
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Thanks Jade. The owls were for draw-a-bird day , which I’m still doing on MeMadTwo in the hopes Nina will return.
It always goes back to the fools I think.
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You are welcome. Will you please send me a link to your owl? I am having trouble getting to your other blog….
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When I get to my computer. The tablet is cranky.
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https://methodtwomadness.wordpress.com/2019/11/08/draw-a-bird-day-short-eared-owl/
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