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Below are the all-time best Paint poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of paint poems written by PoetrySoup members


Tonight I Could Paint a Moonlight
Tonight is not like other nights

Tonight I could paint a moonlight

with the smudged ink of my tears

No its not the inexperienced  arms of death

which...

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Categories: paint, emotions, journey, life,
Form: Free verse
Paint a Picture Black and Gray
Pull out the easel
   set the canvas 
    positioned long and slender clean slate.
Sketch the figures huddled and dark-bound hostage
...

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© DM Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: paint, africa, art, dark, grief,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member If I Could Paint Your Picture
I tried to paint a picture, Dear, of you,
But there was no right color that would do.

There is no blue that ever could display
The tranquilness...

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Categories: paint, romantic,
Form: Couplet




Premium Member Paint Me a Dream - Eve Roper Tribute
Blank canvas
lies naked, cold and pale.
Master painter
paints a dream,
so a man without sight can see.

Master painter's palette enchants.
Sleeping grey pigments weep,
flowing crimson reds drip as
mellow...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: paint, analogy, dedication, tribute, ,
Form: Free verse
Ewmer and Bugs Paint the Town Wed
Got home awound twee (I was dwunk as a wouse)
Awose pwomptly at six wit' dwy cotton-mouth
I knew wather soon my day was gonna' bwow
When I...

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Categories: paint, funny, life,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Fresh Paint
I dyed my small world
In the colours of grief
I couldn’t find comfort
But I longed for relief

All my fabric was dark
I was shrouded in black
The weight...

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Categories: paint, angst, god,
Form: Quatrain



Paint the Wind With Clouds
Now here am I
still floating back to earth,
and lightly so,
for all these words
arrive on little velvet pillows.

I wish I could have
stayed up there
and lingered by...

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Categories: paint, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Paint With Fire
Paint With Fire

Paint flies freely from his brush 
As he paints he sees her blush
In both their eyes passion burns
Naked she poses her body turns
Temptation...

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Categories: paint, appreciation, beauty, desire,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Paint Us As We Are
Thinking of you I’m painting of love
Ascribing endearing brushstrokes
Ambivalent of my reach to inform
As I adumbrate upon soul’s canvas

Come build this portrait with me
Emblazon those...

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Categories: paint, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Songs of Power Paint It Black
Your body is lowered into the ground, where you lie in darkness.
My warm tears mingle with December's cold rain... I lament.
War's grip holds me in...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: paint, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Paint the Skies
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© Ann Peck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: paint, 12th grade, community, fantasy,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Paint the Town Connubial
In Aussie-land dwell the marsupials
By night they paint the town connubial
   They make them a joey
   Named Zoey or Chloe
Neighbors jump...

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Categories: paint, animal, baby, night,
Form: Limerick
The Paint Mover
He leaves his silent signature on every piece of art
Not seeking worldly profit or acclaim,
Yet touches of perfection often set his work apart
And witness to...

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Categories: paint, appreciation, art, beauty, color,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Paint Me Blue
Remembering days of azure skies,
     I dream of you,
     Knowing we're through.

Cerulean thoughts impose;
   ...

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Categories: paint, break up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mind the Paint
Eastern sky blazes at the break of dawn
In the air the rising sun throws its hue
The speckled clouds gleam in the horizon
On multicolored flying palette...

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Categories: paint, analogy, imagery, love, memory,
Form: Lyric

Book: Shattered Sighs