Edphrastic Poetry with the Seven Sisters

This month my Poetry Sisters and I decided to try Ekphrastic poetry, which is simple poetry written in response to an image or work of art. Tanita found this amazing image, and we all wrote about it in whatever form we chose. I reverted to blank verse, having defaulted to my old favorite. The image is taken from a tumblr blog linked here. The original blog posting (Carnival of Dogs) gave this information:

"Documentation of the installation
Susanne Ussing, I Drivhuset, installed at Ordrupgaardsamlingen 1980.
Galleri Tom Christoffersen



Dear Alice

Bricks laid

around her feet &

spiderwebs of steel

adorning her head; this

goddess of paper mache

looks with horror

at an arm of tin,

a leg of wood.

She wonders.

Made to be encased;

or sheltered after the fact?

             -Andromeda Jazmon 

Visit the blogs of my Poetry Sisters and see what they made for this image:

Sara
 Laura
Trisha - Celebrating a 9th blog anniversary!
Kelly
Liz
Tanita

And be sure to check out the Friday Poetry round up hosted by Katya at

Write. Sketch. Repeat.