This month Women Writing for (a) Change-Bloomington poets are participating in National Poetry Writing Month.  Every day we will offer up a new  poem by a writer in our community.  Check back after 6:00 pm for the Prompt of the Day and the selected resulting poem.

Day 22 Write an ekphrastic poem that engages with another art form –anything is in bounds, so long as it uses the poem to express something about another form of art.

April 22nd Ekphrasis by Carole Clark

Art of old has always titillated
Sculptures were always so downright naked
Bosoms bared, penises dangling
So many of the paintings were enormous
Entire walls of
Saints flashing buttocks
Mythical Venuses in the buff
Kings seducing in their birthday suits
Warriors attacking in such vulnerable states
Cherubs fluttering with nary a stitch
No readers needed to understand their intent
I do believe this might have been
Condoned accepted pornography for the elites