Today's poem a day challenge was to write an "ekphrastic" poem from one of two artworks. An ekphrastic poem is one that uses a non-literary work of art (usually visual) to inspire a poetic response. Below is mine, based upon
Goya's Flight of the Witches..
Levitation
They carry me, against my will
Lifting me towards the heavens
Dunce caps on their heads
Out of total blackness, a donkey
Does his dance
Following a beggar covering herself
In a white sheet
The horror leads some to bury
Themselves on the ground
I spin, leaning back, arms outstretched
No longer resisting my fate as they
Carry me upwards
Realizing, now, more than ever,
That I’m being offered
The opportunity to fly.
