Melissa is our hostess at dVerse Poets Pub and her prompt for us : For your Poetics prompt today, if you haven’t already guessed, I’d like to write ekphrastic poetry about Chagall’s art. Choose one of the paintings in this post, and compose a poem about it. For an added challenge, use descriptors in your poem to describe the details in the artwork and tell us about what they are, by telling us what they are not.
What This Is Not
This is not a village,though rooftops gather like memories refusing distance.
Not a horse, exactly—though something white and watchful leans toward tenderness.
Not fear,
though the eye stays open as if guarding a secret.
The woman kneeling is not praying,
only listening to what gentleness asks of hunger.
The green face
is not sorrow,
though longing lives in the curve of its mouth.
This is not dream either—
dreams dissolve.
This remains.
A place where love
does not walk in straight lines,
where moons lean sideways,
where the ordinary forgets itself enough to become wonder.
And perhaps—
this is not memory.
Only the strange country where memory chooses
to live.
Mr Linky :
https://www.blenza.com/linkies/links.php?owner=dversepoets&postid=18May2026&meme=12476
With love
— Maggie The Afterlove Voice 💫
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