Famous Short Imagination Poems

Famous Short Imagination Poems. Short Imagination Poetry by Famous Poets. A collection of the all-time best Imagination short poems

In Mind  

 There's in my mind a woman
of innocence, unadorned but

fair-featured and smelling of
apples or grass.
 She wears

a utopian smock or shift, her hair
is light brown and smooth, and she

is kind and very clean without
ostentation-

but she has
no imagination

And there's a
turbulent moon-ridden girl

or old woman, or both,
dressed in opals and rags, feathers

and torn taffeta,
who knows strange songs

but she is not kind.

The Falcon  

 Why should my sleepy heart be taught 
To whistle mocking-bird replies? 
This is another bird you've caught, 
Soft-feathered, with a falcon's eyes.


The bird Imagination, 
That flies so far, that dies so soon; 
Her wings are coloured like the sun, 
Her breast is coloured like the moon.


Weave her a chain of silver twist, 
And a little hood of scarlet wool, 
And let her perch upon your wrist, 
And tell her she is beautiful.

The gleam of an heroic Act  

 The gleam of an heroic Act
Such strange illumination
The Possible's slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination.

TO MARGARET UNFORGOTTEN  

 Two nights I have dreamed of you

Once as an adolescent, evanescent

Yet tangible still to the spirit’s touch,

Then as a ten year old in the shared 

Secret garden of our imagination.