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Ekphrastic Poetry*
Poetry by Bernard Gieske, US
Painting by Dennis Sheehan**, US
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Lonely Walk Home
As the sun silently slips behind a clump of trees,
saying goodbye to its day-long spent energy
and leaving twilight behind to watch for night,
pink, rosy and pale yellow hues trail in its wake.
A solitary figure trods homewards with measured steps
along a dirt-worn road blotched in ochre and oatmeal brown.
Her lantern hanging motionless flickers for attention
signaling the lateness of the day not yet armored
to fend off the night soon to come,
The day’s wandering breezes lay already nested
in the waist-high grasses of the fields,
withered and leaning in their maturity
completely oblivious to her passing.
Homeward she treads steadily with bowed head,
a black shawl tasseled with the accomplishments of the day’s chores,
draped over her sagging shoulders and
apart at the neck allowing
her red blouse heated by the warmth of her heart
to crest between the blackness of the cloth.
Only her white bonnet, like a beacon
scouring the open empty sea,
seems to have not yet lost
its taste of the day’s sun
on this lonely walk home.
*An Ekphrasic poem is a writing, a poem, that comments upon another art form, for instance a poem about a photograph, a film or a painting.
**In this poem Bernard Gieske has fused poetry with a painting and in doing so, he extends the appreciation of another artistic person's creative work, in this case a painting. The actual painting "Evening Walk" can be viewed on line. To view other paintings by Dennis Sheehan, go to ArtNet: Dennis Sheehan. This same picture was labeled 'Lonely Walk Home' in 'American Art Collector' magazine, September 2009.
The Painting, "Lonely Walk Home" is currently hanging in The Guild of Boston Artists.
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