“Listening To The Painting” by Dale Innis on Midjourney
Ekphrastic
I am the simultaneous translator for Art.
While it screams or weeps or snarls in place,
I carefully find the words it’s trying to say.
I give voice to its bold colors, its depressive greys,
even when it laughs loudly in my face,
I just laugh back and find the raucous adjective,
the verbs that hold their stomachs in,
giggling because they can’t stop.
I sit in front of its framed story,
like a courtroom stenographer
and I listen.
The strokes, the blending of the oils, the hideous and morose…
The running of the water colors burble in my mind..
And then when I feel permeated by the imagery,
I close my eyes and write the poem that it speaks to me
giving voice to its mute canvas, alive but until I sat down…
only visually.
Karima Hoisan
June 11, 2023
Costa Rica
Digital Rabbit Hole 
These poems about your process in writing poems are always great. 🙂 The way an image or a song, or both, get into your head and inspire a poem is such a wonderful source of creativity. Thanks, as ever, for sharing this!
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My pleasure to share and glad you enjoyed what I tried to say, Dale. Thank you also for your patience with Midjourney, that resisted strongly your prompt for this image..or any appropriate image for my poem:)
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Awesome
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Thanks a lot Belavar:) Glad you enjoyed the thought.
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your response to the painting has won you free tuition to the “Other Types of Life Residential Teaching Program”: you will learn more than you ever imagined of the many other alternate lifeforms, who eagerly await your arrival. what a trip it will be!🛸👽🛸
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Hahaha!!How exciting this new prospect is for me. I am ready to carry my ability to translate unusual lifeforms to the ends of outer space and all the microcosmic worlds too. Indeed…what a trip it will be!
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yes, my friend, you are in the big league now: a great galactic razzle-dazzle attraction!🚀🚀🚀
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Woooooots and blasts off towards new adventure!!!
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🚀✨
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Very beautiful! Your word speak with love.❤️
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Thank you for saying that….❤️ and for visiting my blog:)
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giving voice to its mute canvas, alive but until I sat down…
I so love this line Karima❤️
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Thanks so much…a poem can be a good embellishment of a painting, a good companion. So glad you enjoyed that line…yes the poem adds the voice:)
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Great description of your writing process Ruca! From paintings, renderings and photos to your beautiful written work. Magic!
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The image and your verse are both captivating.
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