Imagery Poems - Examples of all types of imagery poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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The last petal - the last graceAs the Autumn falls
The jays sing
A melody -a tale the old wives would sing
While the sun fills the sky dripping
With gold as honey to the brim
I catch sight from my window
Vines and creepyard...
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Categories:
imagery, angst, autumn, beautiful, death
Form: Free verse
The last petal - the last graceAs the Autumn falls
The jays sing
A melody -a tale the old wives would sing
While the sun fills the sky dripping
With gold as honey to the brim
I catch sight from my window
Vines and creepyard...
Read the rest...
Categories:
imagery, angst, autumn, beautiful, death
Form: Free verse
ETERNAL FLAMING LOVEThe flames of a fire blaze
and flicker up and down
the line of their fuel;
In the furnace of my heart,
love’s flames are flickering
forever upward—warmly.
The salty waters of hate
tease love’s flaming blaze,
but are evaporated smokeless:-
...
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Categories:
imagery, allegory, endurance, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
The Window PaneJust getting ready to open the door,
an old door with six panes of glass
filling the upper half of the door,
like six frames of distinct pictures
into the world.
Wanting to step outside and take a deep breath
of...
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Categories:
art, imagery, spring,
Form: Free verse
Desolate DynastyEncased in an isolated castle of an old fool’s paradise,
A decaying dagger rests upon a distressed oak table.
Frayed book pages scatter across termite-riddled floors.
The calligraphy carries echoes of triumphant...
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Categories:
dark, fantasy, heartbroken, imagery,
Form: Free verse
My Fair LadyToday appeared first crocus
Spring is in the air
And soon there will be lilacs
The favorite of mon cher
Their flowers, your complexion
So delicate, so fair
Your beauty complimented
By everything you wear...
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Categories:
imagery, devotion, for her, i
Form: Rhyme
Overnight DialogueMe to You:
Cyber touches
Reaching out
Overnight
Give a shout
Message me
I'm right here
I keep my phone
Very near
You to Me:
It's too windy
Windows shake
I get nervous
You awake?...
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Categories:
imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Always WelcomeThis bright and sunny morning
I watched a bluebird fly
She landed on my table
I thought that I would die
She looked just like my Bluebird
I'm telling you, no lie
I wondered, should I question
From whence...
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Categories:
imagery, devotion, i love you,
Form: Rhyme
Taming the NightmareApril Brooks was four years old, prattling a blue streak, like comets;
Or backwards walking time, seizing swiftly, days of golden promise.
April lived with parents and older sister, in the sunshine of a valley;
And petals wore...
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Categories:
fantasy, imagery, love, mother,
Form: Couplet
AbandonAbandon...
The wind whispers through hollow streets,
a voice of sorrow, a breath of loss,
ghosts of footsteps long since crossed.
Abandon...
Walls crumble, forgotten and worn,
echoing laughter that once rang bright,
now devoured by endless night.
Abandon...
Shadows stretch with hungry hands,
claiming...
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Categories:
imagery, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Relative truth"Normal, a term we all know well,
Yet, its meaning begins to unravel and tell.
A spider's intricate web, a marvel to see,
Is normal to the spider, but a hazard to the butterfly.
Is normal an illusion we...
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Categories:
10th grade, imagery, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
soarfor I soar the unrestricted skies
a terrestrial to bring my demise
how lowly of me to die by the sword
such a small forgiving creature abhorred
drive the wavered blade through my diapsid
a symbol of freedom, now fallen...
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Categories:
imagery, absence, allegory, angel, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Just a PinchPretty Bluebird, where you are
Is where I want to be
Content just being in your midst
My heart and mind agree
In quiet contemplation
My thoughts kept to myself
As well as all the different dreams
In books up on the...
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Categories:
imagery, devotion, i love you,
Form: Rhyme
HoneybunchesHoneysuckle, Honeybunches,
Sweet scented, my perfume near you.
Butterfly, how funny lunch is.
Our sky, and dressing, cheese, is blue.
Sweet scented, my perfume near you.
The flowers are honey-buzzing.
Our sky, and dressing, cheese, is blue.
The kirsch wine and I...
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Categories:
cute, imagery,
Form: Pantoum
Beautiful Chrome HeartMidnight rides—his pulse aligns with the thunder beneath him
fingers tracing her curves polishing fire into steel.
Wind against his skin she sings beneath him once more
Saturday mornings spent bathing her shine in devotion
One last glance—wait for...
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Categories:
adventure, beauty, freedom, imagery,
Form: Imagism
Specific Types of Imagery Poems
Definition | What is Imagery in Poetry?