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I am inspired today by a post by Richard Peabody, editor of Gargoyle Magazine, who regularly posts unusual and fascinating images on his facebook page. The longer I moved through my day, the more I found myself pleasantly haunted by George Leonnec’s “Centaur Kiss”
For day eight’s prompt, let’s write an ekphrastic poem in which you reflect on Leonnec’s image and describe or narrate it adding more dimension to the work. Check out the image via the link and write a poem inspired by it. For a full definition of ekphrastic poem, click on the link above.
Happy writing!
the poet's billow 
I didn’t write one about “Centaur Kiss,” but years ago I wrote one that is published in one of the chapbooks of the Live Poets’ Society at the Huntington Library about a painting by David Hockney called “Breakfast at Malibu, Sunday” (Boone Gallery, 2002), printed here with their permission. See this link for a view of the painting: http://www.hockneypictures.com/works_paintings_80_19.php
Boone Gallery, 2002
Here is the wealth of the west,
dancing ecstatic surf, turquoise
and impassioned, dazzling beyond
the glass, where teapot, striped
and pink, appears on a table.
This is a piece of rapture
here behind the glass where
beauty does permeate,
an air-born clean cloud of joy.
Here is color and consciousness
together like painting and poetry
like truth and hope, blending
aromas from essential sources.
Here is that fortunate moment
for hungry eyes, longings compensated,
miseries suspended, the ancient promise
in a blink fulfilled, and though gone
in the same, can renew, can revive.