To the Lighthouse: Ekphrastic Senryu

                                                                                                     Dali's Melting Clocks 

                                                                                                     on the waiting room wall ...

                                                                                                     heat haze

An ekphrastic senryu is a senryu inspired or stimulated by a work of art, and through describing and reflecting on this piece of art, the poet may amplify and expand its meaning.

Selected Senryu:

the half smile

begins to hurt

mona lisa

Daya Bhat

I'm lovestruck

by her Mona Lisa smile ...

the divorce lawyer 

Untitled

(a black-edged box

they’ll put me into)

John Hawkhead

empty space

on a gallery wall

framing my loss

Patricia Hawkhead

Van Gogh's daffodils

I tilt my head to be seen

in a group photo

Jackie Chou

to Andy Warhol

Campbell's Soup Cans

falling out of their frames ...

hunger trance

Happy Reading

Chen-ou