Best Photo Poems

Five years ago, to me, you were just a photo 
I had no idea who you were
Through your words and kindness 
We've become wonderful distant friends 
You have opened your heart to me, and I to you 
You have made me smile, laugh and sometimes...

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Close ...

So close, you were skin to my flesh,
          Marrow to my bones ...
               Suffusing my being and breath
   ...

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She searches  through his remnants
Trying to find her broken pieces
Had she been important to him?
She finds a single piece of yellowed paper
Her name written in his elegant hand
Those hands that had held her once
Strong hands
She had felt safe in those hands
Unaware of his weakness,
his...

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WHAT THE!!!.........WHO IS THIS???
WHAT DO YOU MEAN I'VE BEEN PHOTO SHOPPED???
How could that possibly be?
I only wanted the picture cropped and framed!
You can't really think that looks like me!

When did I become seven feet tall?
My eyes are brown, not Malachite green!
You've made my arms longer...

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You may think that I am famous
Can't recall my name but
You've seen me hang out with the stars

Believe me I'm right there with ya
I'm in their every picture
They don't know me but I know who they are

Thought it'd do me a world of good
To move...

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To see this Photo please use the following URL of the face book.

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Photo Poem . 01 

In English- 
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These beautiful swans adjusting their wings slowly 
While focusing their eyes and concentration in the lake water 
The Sun seems a little uneasy in such calm &...

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A small dark-haired boy

absorbed in the words he scrawls

at an old wood desk

has thoughts brighter than grim walls

beyond which his future sprawls


Nov. 23, 2017 for Eve Roper's Photostory Contest...

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This Click in time,
In this old photo,
The faces are fading,
From so long, long ago.
Names not remembered,
How long ago?
No ones seems to know.
Who were they,
That took the time for this photo?

It is proof that they were once here,
My eyes do not lie,
But it is hard to...

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Mom said, “No sex before marriage,”
With rules she thought were quite sage.
But in her wedding shot,
I see a twist in the plot—
Was her vow just a part of the age?...

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My Notes:  You May find it difficult to understand the situation in this poem, so did I, but not in the reading. I’m a hack Poet at best, which is why I didn’t submit it in the contest about rising above reality. When I...

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This is a collaboration of a photo that I took and a poem written by poet Probir Gupta inspired by the photo.  (I apologize for the size of the photo - I was unable to get it posted, the regular size, except for when...

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Between cradle and grave, live today
Seize the day forwards, backwards and across
A photo captures the essence of life, better than anything
A trilling laugh observed by a camera lens

He had no worries
 ... his eyes smile and the mouth laughs

Do not cry because the boy has...

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Wind rustles lightly
leaves now reedlike sing
as stalks of bamboo bump clack
my quarry now close....the Panda...

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Black and White Photo
 
In her forties bandana
his mother looks on
Life's taken a turn,
The war is won.
 
Dark and beautiful
her son at her side
leans his head to her cheek
Norman Rockwell style.
 
He grows dutiful, practical,
colors in the lines,
stacks his blocks neatly
and gets gold stars.
 
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I saw a battled frame
housing a black 
and white photo
of a hero 
in war, 

proudly posing
hiding his fear, 
his fragility

some family's pride
and country's

creased, 
in a junk shop...

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