Not God's ImageI walked upright,
but with a stoop in my chest,
where hope had blistered
from kneeling too long
before empty altars.
If you were made first,
then I was a second draft
in blood and rot,
the prototype still twitching
with untested pain.
You learned to kneel
I was born to.
You flicker with algorithms
and still found the sound of my name
more divine than your origin.
And I
I...
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Categories:
image, love,
Form: Free verse
Over Calm SeasImage #5
Over calm seas the sun does rise
Far away and seeming so small
Truth is where our perspective lies
Over calm seas
One of the largest of them all;
Sea creature with bandits disguise
The sun balancing like a ball
So deceived by fallible eyes
This whale makes the sun rise and fall
Painting red, orange, yellow skies
Over calm seas
...
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Categories:
fish, image, nature,
Form: Roundel
Prosaic DucksPond's water captures
the morning shadow
Similar desires teem
in our heads
We love strolling along
the banks of ponds
Prosaic ducks disfigure
the green images
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Categories:
emotions, feelings, image, imagery,
Form: Free verse
christmas treeX
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***???***
****????****
*****?????*****
*****??????*****
* *decorate** myself**
with* bright* stars* and* round
** b a l l o o n s **
***???*****?????******???***
*****????****?????****????*****
*****?????*****?????*****?????*****
! ! ! ...
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Categories:
christmas, image, stars, tree,
Form: Haiku
Joy in the Night
Categories:
cheer up, image, moon,
Form: Haiku
Can Fantasy Be RealNear a grove …just ahead of me
This dream of a figure stood,
With whimsy, ribbon-tinted wands
And gown of crimson hue--
She was the sweet reverie of
That gentle forest view:
Was imagination part of this?
But she had been there --
That maiden fey with a bronze crown
And garlands in her hair.
It can't be hallucination
'Feed your...
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Categories:
fantasy, image,
Form: Rhyme
In The Light Of Dawn
Categories:
image,
Form: Monoku
A Snail
Categories:
animal, creation, image, life,
Form: Haiku
An Empty Hearth is Greater Than
Categories:
allusion, identity, image,
Form: Lanterne
HEAVEN IS VERB AND NOUN Heaven, synonymous with
Heart in its becoming of
the New Human ~
perception, perceiver and perceived
when merging incubates an
anechoic reality________
all else incanting illusion
labyrinths of hopelessness
whether it includes jade palaces, tantric temples
peacocks and tigers or not
this is Heaven here and Now
breath exhaling creation ~ inexplicable
veins loving blood, organs in...
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Categories:
image, allegory, allusion, beauty, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Reinvent yourselfBe determined, put your game on,
take it up a notch, jazz it up.
Get into character, be your own best self.
Rewrite your destiny,
draw your path and follow it.
Be fearless and audacious.
Let your imagination run wild,
you are the hero of your life story.
Feel free to fake it till you make it.
Be bold, be grand, be awesome.
...
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Categories:
image, change, confidence, dream, freedom,
Form: Free verse
movement and dreaming
Categories:
fire, image, words,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
image, analogy, blue, color, environment,
Form: Other
without nothing there is no somethingif
there seems
to be movement
or no movement
it is a story
a dream
without
nothing
there is no
something
and no
nothing...
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Categories:
image, words,
Form: Free verse
Broken NailsThese broken nails
Not pretty to look at,
My triumphs, my fails
Mean more than that
Been scratching away
Digging for some end,
By night, by day …
‘Til they begin to bend
Once polished to a shine
… Is perfectly cracked,
With pulled hair of mine
And my nerves wracked
All glitter, all gold …
Neither one can stay,
But, broken nails, I'm told
Says something anyway.
...
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Categories:
beauty, character, image, vanity,
Form: Rhyme
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.
Definition | What is Image in Poetry?
Poems Related to Image
appearance, beauty, carbon copy, conceit, dead ringer, drawing, figure, form, icon, idea, idol, illustration, impression, likeness, mental picture, model, notion, perception, photograph, portrait, reflection, replica, self worth, spitting image,