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Image Poems | Examples of Image Poetry

Premium Member haiku 8
a lone flower sway - beneath a weeping willow basho dreams of spring ...Read the rest...
Categories: beauty, flower, image, imagination,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Topless
We were young and full of adventure Travelling in our kombi van Burning incense and listening To Cat Stevens and Bob Dylan We decided to climb a tourist peak Slowly making it to the top Going down was easier Though there...Read the rest...
Categories: adventure, funny, image, stress,
Form: Rhyme



Neither Dumb belle nor dumbell: a Quest for Identity
Neither Dumb Belle nor dumbell: The Search for Personal Identity. Made in His image Divine, one and one equals two The differences plain and simple in design Does not "Woman" mean "Female Man," From First Man her origins...Read the rest...
Categories: god, identity, image, men,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Inappropriate Advertiser's Greeting Card Image
This advertisement by ETSY is inappropriate. It depicts a greeting card of a man getting excited down there. And it crosses the line in the sand of what's decent and what's not. This picture is...Read the rest...
Categories: image, perspective,
Form: Free verse
UNSEEKING SEEKER CONTINUUM
UNSEEKING SEEKER CONTINUUM The Seeker can never be unseeking for what is sought is forever seeking stillpoint is continuum neither end nor beginning membrane is not holding woven for what weaves loosens then leaves space expands then binds...Read the rest...
Categories: image, change, character, extended metaphor,
Form: Verse



Fury For The Masses VI
Fury for the masses neon pulses bleed into the damp air screens flicker frantic fireflies spitting chaos into living rooms, void! Each pixel is a distant mind bomb echoes of sirens shatter the night. Feel the heart of asphalt jungles where skyscrapers...Read the rest...
Categories: image, america, anger, art, city,
Form: Free verse
Fury for the masses: God King
We've tipped the scale, Crossed the line, flags droop and fail. Fury for the masses… Nine's almost here, Lost our minds, consumed by fear? I'm a ghost in my own street, The faces I trusted, they're...Read the rest...
Categories: image, america, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Lead
To be feared or to be loved A king contemplates No right answer can be had...Read the rest...
Categories: fear, image, leadership, love,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Prisoner Of Poetry
Alphabets gather as words unravel the passing and returning of moans; lines of phrases inflame the arteries of beauty, angst, love interwoven by imagination's pining. Tingle of words… fragrance of vowels… caress of verses enter the soul, as...Read the rest...
Categories: celebration, image, poetry,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Boy With The Cardboard Heart
When you have nobody you have somebody and that somebody is yourself. Because you’re all you’ve got. So why need anybody? Anybody being nobody. Nobody being somebody. Somebody being anybody. Somebody. Somebody. Somebody. Nobody. Nobody....Read the rest...
Categories: image, abuse, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Steeped In Hurt
Shadows of yesterday eclipse reality. But in hope lies my dreams; where I am free of doubt. Love's ethereal touch; manipulates pleasure. And always seeking more; fledgling feelings take wing. Desire morphs into lust; untethered to your heart. And love's consigned to dreams; whenever doubt wins...Read the rest...
Categories: image, angst, anxiety, betrayal, break
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member McDougal's Irish Accent
McDugal, the Leprechaun is a gent Mick's wife always says he was Heaven sent He shows respect to women In their praises he's swimmin' They love hearin' his Irish brogue accent...Read the rest...
Categories: humor, image,
Form: Limerick
The Enemy Within
The unseen ache, the hollow feeling of being unseen. To loathe each fragment of yourself, a puzzle with no hands to mend it. Like shattered glass filled to the brim, spilling, cracking, never whole. Distraction is a bandage too thin, but the...Read the rest...
Categories: image, 12th grade, black african
Form: Free verse
Treehouse
In the great Old Grove forests Perry, Sayva, Diamond, and Jack Went out and built this tree house A fine little tree house It had a ladder, it had a few windows It had a little garden they built The garden...Read the rest...
Categories: image, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Time's Calling
Tic Tok, days are numbered before death Clock counting each second of breath From sun up to moonlight chill of the air Constant schedule to survive life's drama Beep, beep, beep, time's calling wake up...Read the rest...
Categories: image, absence, change, character, humanity,
Form: Imagism

Specific Types of Image Poems

Read wonderful image poetry on the following sub-topics: appearance, bio, body, god, flowers, how i feel, how i look, iconic, imagery, life, love, middle school, narrative, nature, photographic, self and more.

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