End This Endless Sunset
Where do the seasons take us?
Is direction relevant
when the sun repeatedly sets
and the promise inherent in a sunrise
refuses to reveal itself?
Give me the promise of a spring
that cannot be denied, with clouds
to reflect that sunrise, not threaten
an unending storm to hold us back.
The Ekphrastic Review, with guest editor Janette Shafer offered Emilio Boggio’s Fin de la Jornada in The Emilio Boggio Ekphrastic Challenge. While I received encouraging comments from Janette, my submission did not make the final cut. There are some wonderful selections that were chosen, including those by Kerfe Roig and Merril Smith, and they can be read here.
Image source: Wikimedia Commons – Fin de la Jornada, by Emilio Boggio
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Beautiful words!
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Thank you, Linda. 🙂
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Life as sunrise sunset. It’s living in between that’s hard.
You’re privileged, getting feedback!
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Thank you, Jane. I did see hardship in the painting.
I often wonder how to write when there is a guest editor, because it seems like they can have a predetermined direction in mind.
I might have wished to make this longer, but I didn’t want to add any hope, other than that which seems out of reach.
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No, I think you were right not to lighten it. Hope doesn’t seem to be the remit of the painting.
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That’s a great title. And the questions are searching, in the right way.
I do think you are right about the guest editors. But in the end you have to write for yourself. Between the many rejections I get and the acceptances, it’s hard for me to find the dividing line between good and not so good most of the time. That’s as true of my art as my poetry, for which my rejection rate is even higher. (K)
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Thank you, Kerfe. I wouldn’t say that ekphrasis is the easiest poetry to write, but but I do appreciate inspiration I might not otherwise have had.
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This is lovely, Ken, and a very good discussion point.
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Thank you, Robbie. 🙂
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I especially like the second stanza perspective.
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Thank you. That need for something better.
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A wonderful title, and such an interesting perspective and questioning–the endless sunset.
It’s nice that the editor took the time to give you feedback.
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Thank you, Merril. I had some communication with her the last time she was guest editor. Two stanzas became four, and my submission was accepted. I appreciated that from her as an editor.
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It nice when someone takes the time to help like that.
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