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Background Poems - Poems about Background

Background Poems - Examples of all types of poems about background to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for background.
Premium Member Just Clouds
... Just Clouds They seem just ordinary fill for a background, a fuzzy white or gray that doesn't grab the eye and distract from the more deserving stuff like trees, sweeping ocean views and mo......Read the rest...
Categories: background, sky, storm, sunset,
Form: Free verse



The Soup is Piping
...The soup boils and spits out at me Reminding me of the past. Steam builds as it circulates around the fans Lurching forward, with a spoon, I taste a small droplet of the sizzling delight Only to......Read the rest...
Categories: background, caregiving, change, dream, for
Form: Free verse
the shadow of the tree in the morning's garden
...The shadow of a tree has fallen on the morning garden. It moves with slow steps and leaves its trail of frost, as if it were telling the time as the day progresses. The grasses, freed from......Read the rest...
Categories: background, bird, french, sun, weather,
Form: Free verse
Under the heavy aegis of passing time
...Under the heavy aegis of passing time, Centuries have become a burden weighing upon the moment, We are more severed from purity than all the ages, Corpses of empires, our own decay surrounds us. ......Read the rest...
Categories: background, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Deep C
...It was a hot day, I was on my way back from Spar, carrying a bag of groceries. I walked past the lilac bushes in bloom, past the annex to the medical centre with its small car park, rounding my house......Read the rest...
Categories: background, mystery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Girl with a pearl earring
... I’m struck by the stark contrast of her image which leaps out against a black background Meeting the gaze of her piercing blue eyes I find her so beautiful much more alluring than the Mona......Read the rest...
Categories: background, art, beauty, identity,
Form: Ekphrasis
Than We sing
...Haru and RItm often seemed out of place and often with a certain concern. Yindiao told Jidiao Giam Jiezou not to Jiving Biayan he was cheap on the Xuaniu and lacked concern with his Cantar's......Read the rest...
Categories: background, business, creation, music, passion,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member The Unwritten
... Some songs remain unwritten, so many unsung. Sometimes there are words, but no background music so I curse this refrain. Unable to find the perfect blend My art remains unappreciated, ......Read the rest...
Categories: background, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Skin of Terror
...Skin of Terror - Daniel Henry Rodgers (Lights slowly rise on a lone figure, MICHAEL, hunched over a steering wheel. His knuckles are white aga......Read the rest...
Categories: background, horror, mental health, mental
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Still, She Stays
...Her bathrobe hangs forgotten by the door. Her clothes strewn all across the bedroom floor. And I find that I don’t care anymore For she’s still with me. Her makeup takes up all the counter space.......Read the rest...
Categories: background, feelings, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member No Protest No War!
...No War No Protest! Colors of red, green, black, and white spread on the east side of one campus On the other a wave of white, and blue stars A flock has gathered The atmosphere seems peaceful......Read the rest...
Categories: background, courage, hope, war, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Artificial Iris
... "Artificial Iris" Orwell was lurking in the background, somewhere; the dream was eerily familiar, the words and their meanings, read in Syntax, once read between pa......Read the rest...
Categories: background, surreal,
Form: Narrative
The last high
...Bruising my vein Can’t stay in my lane Don’t even feel any pain Acting like my arms are a pincushion A dirty needle about to push in Need that rush Want the voices to hush Never coming down ......Read the rest...
Categories: background, addiction, anger, dark, depression,
Form: Free verse
My Fetty Detox
...A gutsy move to say the least, A desperate reach to say the most. There's nothing I can say right now, If I'm to meet my greatest ghost. This feeling of the ending near, Yet I can't seem to li......Read the rest...
Categories: background, addiction, america, best friend,
Form: Free verse
My Home
...Green in the background A narrow path paved stones That led to my home......Read the rest...
Categories: background, beautiful, creation, home, image,
Form: Haiku

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