Monday, April 6, 2020

The Owl

a detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymous Bosch





The Owl 



I hatched this world.
Tree by tree, creature by creature,
I created you and everyone else inside.
I have laid thousands of eggs and my work is far from done.
I gave you everything so you may never want.
Now you tell me you are not happy.
You tell me this world is corrupt and evil.
I am sorry to hear that.
I followed my creative vision.
If you want something else instead,
go hatch your own egg.



GloPoWriMo Day 6 - an ekphrastic poem based on The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymous Bosch
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4 comments:

  1. JennaApril 7, 2020 at 11:13 AM

    Nicely done. You chose an interesting point of view.

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  2. Manja MexiApril 8, 2020 at 2:19 AM

    Excellent. :)

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  3. NatasaApril 9, 2020 at 6:09 PM

    Thanks. I thought I would do both - write about a creature in the picture and about the painter himself ;)

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