You may have noticed that the prompts for this week are basic tools to get you started poeming.
On the first, we began our poems with the here and now, on the second we used our memory and On our third day, we looked outside of ourselves to gather a found poem.
Today, we'll combine those three methods into one (some of you may have already started doing this, naturally):
Poetry on a specific subject.
The subject can be anything. I'm going to narrow down the prompt to a very specific type of poem, which reflects my interest.
Ekphrasis: a poem describing a work of art. Grounded in the here and now of your experience writing, exploring a memory that is the art, with a "found" subject (that will shape the words you use).
This is an extremely old poetic tradition, dating back to Plato. There are many, many (beyond many) excellent examples of ekphrasis, I'll point you to a few of my favorites, which you might already be familiar with: