Imagery Poems - Examples of all types of imagery poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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Divine MagnitismIn the vast ocean of life, we are boats adrift
Navigating through stormy seas, our spirits uplift
Waves of challenges crash upon our bow
Yet we sail on, with courage and faith somehow
The lighthouse of hope guides us...
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Categories:
emotions, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Peek-a-BooLove me sweetly
I will you
I'll make sure
The things I do
Are all the things
You want me to
Your happiness
Is what I seek
Say my name
When at the peak
No need for words
No need to speak
I'll know the...
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Categories:
imagery, for her, i love
Form: Rhyme
The Kiss of Back================================================
"Your enemies know you, as you know them, and truth bears on--face to face ... The Mirror Cracks ... Your friends know you, as you know them, and truth bears on--face to back," by the...
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Categories:
imagery, analogy, betrayal, death, friendship,
Form: Concrete
Beneath Turquoised,Peaceful,Waters
I was sinking and searching for humanity’s peace.
Hoping to find silence from worldly, negative speech!
To let the cool, kimd, aqueous, blue waves,
Remind mankind to please, oh,please,behave.
The minuscule , sparkling wondrous fish eyes
Studied me with awed...
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Categories:
imagery, fantasy, hope, how i
Form: Rhyme
Mother's Day prayer for mom to heal from bronchitisI bring you flowers, homemade meals, meds, herbal tea
I hope Our Lady of Grace will smile on thee :-)...
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Categories:
caregiving, flower, imagery, mother
Form: Couplet
imitating lifemuch of what's behind
lies buried within the mind
revised or maligned
boiling down this life
using memory as knife
won't halt inner strife
trying to avoid
staring straight into the void
ego was destroyed
filling empty lines
outside truth's murky confines
too soon undermines
join the...
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Categories:
allegory, change, imagery, life,
Form: Haiku
CurtainsSetting: A parlor with money hanging on a wall hosts an engagement on legal tender
Characters:
T: Teen, (spoiled boy) in puke shorts and bigoted shirt, and he's loaded {burp}
W: Woman, (nut all there) varied Degree...
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Categories:
imagery, appreciation, beautiful, change, father
Form: Verse
I See TremorsI see tremors…
dancing between the dust,
as the sunlight hits your hands,
they recite their symphony, of silence,
for me…
from a distant land.
...
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Categories:
beauty, dance, deep, imagery,
Form: Lyric
RosaRosa the gem of flowers
the queen of every plant,
in spring she wears her fineries,
her beauty the eyes enchant.
Her colours are so attractive blushing with every hues,
her aroma is so romantic
to...
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Categories:
imagery, beauty, color, flower, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
A New Mad American EmpireThis is the edge of America
This is the edge of America
The land of the free
Home of the brave
The Republic of Tyrannies
White hoods and black fist
Cities in flame
Agent Orange burns
Television drones on
Into the static...
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Categories:
imagery, america, analogy, anger, art,
Form: Free verse
NO PLACE FOR POETS
There is no place for the poet...
We are all lost
In our last stages,
without having time
To leave...
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Categories:
imagery, allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
no poet, am I
Categories:
beauty, god, imagery, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Before I GoSmile at me one last time
Send me on my way to rhyme
The days I'm at my thinking spot
Are now more often than they're not
My seat, an Adirondack chair
It's one of two just sitting there
The...
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Categories:
imagery, for her, i love
Form: Rhyme
Orchid WomanOh you know the type—
the orchid woman
a cosmopolitan who cosmo sips
between snips of gist
her charisma a starship —collides
with your star-full eyes
supernova for Casanova
her pouty lips knit a magazine smile
rows of sugar-white pearls
strung shiny straight
behind wet-red...
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Categories:
beautiful, imagery, irony, power,
Form: Free verse
A subtle summerIn the gratifying embrace of the sun's glow
a delightful plight, a verdant tableau;
Where the blazing sovereign of light reigns
scattering, a gleam of kaleidoscopic refrains;
The sweet sounds of the dulcet birds
coercing me to summon these...
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Categories:
cheer up, creation, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Imagery Poems
Definition | What is Imagery in Poetry?