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Beyond The Horizon

May 1, 2024
By 4ellenbecker BRONZE, Nashotah, Wisconsin
4ellenbecker BRONZE, Nashotah, Wisconsin
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On Christina’s World by Andrew Wyeth (USA) 1948


In the field of gold and gray, dreams and reality floods. 

With every brushstroke, I am brought to life, captured in a quiet peace.

In a landscape enormous and stretched out, where the wind softly roars.


My name whispers in the fissile of the grass, in the quietness.

As I lay, gawking towards the distant horizon, hopes inflate. 

My body, grounded yet longing, holds out across the earth. 

I am seeking comfort, seeking answers, seeking all that life is worth. 


Through the ache in my limbs, the weight approaches my chest.

I crawl, determined, thriving towards what may come. 

In this moment, frozen in time, I am both fragile and vigorous. 


Each brushstroke, a spillway for my silent prayer, 

In Christina's World, I am free. 

For in this timeless triumph, I find my place.

The girl in the painting symbolizes grace. 


Rummaging into Christina’s soul, her commotion and variance, 

her hopes, her fears, the kernel of her life, I

let her journey unfold with depth and present everywhere.

And through her eyes, I let my emotions ignite.


The author's comments:

This is a Ekphrasis Poem about a painting called Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth in 1948, I portrayed myself as Christina to tell her story.


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