Purple Dreams In Other RealmsOnce upon a magical evening an enchanted fairy I happened to see
dressed in a fantastical dress with two dappled wings of lace,
she shone like the midnight sun;
I must confess, she looked rather whimsical
sitting there by a green wooden door, waiting for your lore !
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Categories:
fantasy, imagery, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Painted Doll
Earthquakes of bedlam quell
As tectonic plates of emotional instability cease shifting.
The tears of a discarded clown, suspended in animation—
Numbness overtakes.
Masks slip, shattering.
Shards scrape, lacerating apathetic flesh,
Revealing the painted doll underneath.
Remove its colourful costume;
Discover marionette strings embedded within a fraying back. ...
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Categories:
dark, deep, gothic, imagery,
Form: Free verse
THUNDERING HEART RAININGRAINING HEARTBEAT
My supreme heartbeat.
echoing sweet thunder, as
its cloud, raindrops love:-...
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Categories:
imagery, allegory,
Form: Haiku
SPRING BEACHINGSPRING BEACHING
Wet and dry sands pleased,
frothing waves compensating
spring's sweet sunshine shores:-
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Categories:
imagery, metaphor,
Form: Haiku
my soul in foreign lands, forgotten 2
A soul's etched cartography
compasses spins a needle frantic
above a parchment of skin.
A map…
Each line a river I've drowned in,
blood I waded and divide
each faded scar
a language scarlet, unfound!
My soul no longer shapes
foreign land of waste annihilates
behind my eyes...!
I see nothing
deserts exhale silent sacred sands…
Hearts pulse with unheard drums
an archway to oblivion...
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Categories:
imagery, allegory, art, conflict, dark,
Form: Free verse
my soul in foreign lands, forgotten 1
The map unrolls, a skin of dust,
where landmarks shift like whispers lost to a gust.
I trace a fracture, jagged, unfamiliar...
A place where my phantom feet wandered, chillier
than memory allows. A tongue they spoke is lost,
A melody unheard, for a dearly paid-for cost.
within the crumbling walls of an infernal keep,
A cracked, blackened mirror shows a face,...
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Categories:
imagery, allegory, allusion, art, dark,
Form: Free verse
Hiku
Categories:
beautiful, imagery, light, nature,
Form: Haiku
Disconsolate
Categories:
farewell, imagery, sad,
Form: Haiku
Dandelion Dreams
Categories:
beautiful, earth, imagery, nature,
Form: Haiku
HOLY CANDLESHOLY CANDLES
Candle flames waving,
symbolic light, reflecting
blooming peace and love:-...
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Categories:
allegory, feelings, imagery, light,
Form: Haiku
Acta est fabula, plauditeWhat I sing from my chest
Only for ivory keys to hear.
Are the same old words
That cracked lips bear.
That familiar tune that calloused fingers play
Is the one that my own heart aches to say.
I have plucked and I have strummed
But when its my own heartstrings
That are plucked for the masses
Will my soul succumb or...
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Categories:
desire, devotion, guitar, imagery,
Form: Lyric
The Anthem of Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."
Star-speckled galaxies nestled in indigo stratospheres transform
Into a plethora of pastel hues, painting the canva of a breaking dawn.
Strokes of salmon and peach stretch across the heavens,
Whilst the slumbering cosmos begins to awaken.
Shimmering dewdrops collect like pristine pools within velvety buttercups,
Nourishing amber and ebony bumblebees.
The...
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Categories:
art, beautiful, imagery, light,
Form: Free verse
hollowsIn the hollows of the night
I lie and face the stars, the things behind the veil
In dreams, I turn from things afar; I feel my soul quake
In the hallows of my night, there in a bar
The shadows man watches, the night pools
In hallows of my heart, I lie and face the stars
The universes mass,...
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Categories:
imagery, art, creation, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Shadows speak oblivion
It speaks of loss and vermilion
It speaks of everything and eternity
Shadows reek of dead things n burnt dreams
Shadows hide the faces of the world
The truth from the light, the madness
In houses of civility, things of industry
In the deepest night, shadows linger, creep
Shadows cover our misbegotten deeds
It speaks of loss n suffering
All...
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Categories:
art, dark, deep, imagery,
Form: Free verse
What beautiful decay
As sunlight paints all in gold
A cresting wave
Along a distant bay
Gulls cry high into a clear sky
Its tyrannical son burns all away.
Summer has come
What beautiful decay
As evening dies on horizons blade
A splash of crimson
Deep in forgotten May
Amber n indigo lay lazy on the shores
Autumn lingers behind the day
What beautiful decay
A chill frosts...
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Categories:
imagery, art, creation, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Imagery Poems
Definition | What is Imagery in Poetry?