Ekphrastic Escher Series 1 - Six Poems by R.W. Stephens

 

Ekphrastic Escher Series 1

 

Waterfall

Flow ever upward

Water falls turning old cogs

The laundry is clean

 

Ascending and Descending

Purgatory souls

Climb but never reach heaven

Continual trudge

 

Ascending and Descending

Tower of heaven

Hooded serfs always reaching

Never staying long

 

Other World

Arched columns above

Ba birds guarding portals

Other worldly planes

 

Three Worlds

World of reflection

World of the dying season

Old contemplations

 

 

Hand with Reflective Sphere

 

Existential view

Self and hand in reflection

Contemplates choices

R.W. Stephens - The poetry of Robert W Stephens can have some unusual subjects: a lone tree in the mountains, vultures, an old ha'penny. He is a native of California, born in San Francisco Now living in Oakland across the bay. There was a sojourn to Wisconsin for university, then a return home with a BS in English. He has had an interesting life, from working in a nuclear power plant to making specialty contact lenses, with a week in a rural village in central China in between. He has published in the Lothlorien Poetry Journal And Synchronized Chaos. “The future is never known, but is often filled with hope.” rws