Outline Poems | Examples

Premium Member Dark Shape And Outline

Sinister Shadowy Silhouette

Premium Member OUTLINE the technique

darker
lines
black
  outlines
stand out
&follow
 the
curves
& angles
  refined
then defined
&isolated
to
configure
 the shape
 a perimeter
  visual contour
thick
 black
  yellow
or white
 sharp
&strong

a
 closed
distinguished
&
bold
  silhouette
art
Form: Didactic


Premium Member Chalk Outline

Imagine if you would,
a comedic TV show.
Funny most evenings
and has a nice flow.

The guy who works
for Police homicide
the one who dose
the chalk outline.
A psychic friend of mine,
who's always on time,
He's a real psychic
He actually tells people
when not to show up for work,
or when they should 
or shouldn't drive.
He's trying to save lives.

Working alone and
telling people over the phone,
when they should stay home.
He's been reported
to the police.
And chewed out
by the police chief.

He tells people to double lock
their doors so 
they don't get robbed.
He knocks on your door
and says if you don't mind,
I don't want you
to become a chalk outline.
tomorrow don't answer
your door after 4:00

And ya know kids
like being told,
to be cool and
stay home from school...
Because their boyfriend 
or girlfriend Ain't quite right.
Like a song that's sung,
they like to showoff 
playing with a Gun.
The parents can't complain,
until then neighbors kid got shot.
They thought he was insane.

Premium Member Outline

OUTLINE

 so
  elegant
exact
  if
  plain
but
pure

  a fleeting
      fidelity
this
  pride of possession
that
disturb feelings
  though remarkably ironic
recur
   covering
the
obsessive
 in veiled irony
leaving
a slight
  rapport
 candid
  &intimate


THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two way interplay and often a unique interpretation by the enigma so derived
Form: Other

Outline

The emptiness is winning
more and more
feel less and less
the fissure an expanding canyon
on the abyss as it falls into me
scars and bruises tension stretched
holding skin in place
all my fight surrendered
all the days are gone
numb hopes to feel the pain
smile hurts my face
i used to be
but now there is no trace
Sitting in my darkness
light refused to land
less has no point
ever fu is tiled
Des always comes in pairs
d is ejected
full of every sorrow
all the ing are hurt
trapped inside my guard
alone always close
waiting for the end
the time i never rose


Premium Member Be the Bee

Be the bee within the bees bonnet pouring
Not as old man in his slumber snoring
For soon the bees of honey do partake
And late the old man stands his last awake

Come comb your honey hair as sunny fair the day
Come bonny boy and toy not hour away
For in the garden by the gate your destiny awaits
And you may sow the early earth 
in straight or crooked plaits

For high yon mighty oak where sun streams lightly
Breaking shade with measured days of gold
Beneath the canopy of stars formed nightly
Your memory’s youthful life exchanged for old

I have walked your many steps , run with wheels a turning
Squandered youth and mis-pent truth; left ashen life a-burning
So be the bee and by the by be captured in the poets eye
And all of this and all of that and all before you die.
Form: Rhyme

Project Outline

Happy birthday, dear Nicole Ann, 
Success requires project outline; 
Loss is caused by failure to plan, 
Ignoring the detailed design. 

Topic: Birthday of Nicole Ann Quintos (March 22)
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member An Outline In Transit

bemused
     at the prospect of life
a personal vision
             unashamed
                minimalist
                 yet
                     melancholic
eclipsed
          in a calm solemnity
           uncompromising
             full of abandon
     passionately involved

a familiar narrative
        encountering oneself
        an artistic instinct
         candour with revelation
and
    yet
         detached
                     from all the whys&wherefors
                     disturbed by experience
        yet
           innocent
lingering in this dislocation
of the cultural&spiritual
              in
               notions of intimate disclosure
shaped
     by absences
       challenged by self confession
encouraged
      by
        detached depiction
absorbed
       by
          relationships
oblivious
     to comment
Form: Verse

Premium Member Outline of the Book of Revelations

Outline of the Book of Revelations
Introduction and Apocalyptic Christ, Ch 1
The 7 Churches, Ch. 2-3
Heavenly Liturgy, Ch. 4
Scroll and the Lamb, Ch. 5
Seven Seals Ch. 6-7
Seven Angelic Trumpets, Ch. 8-11
Seven Apocalyptic Personages
a.	Mother Mary, Ch. 12
b.	Father Christ
c.	Michael
d.	Dragon
Satanic Trinity
a.	Devil, Ch. 12
b.	Sea Beast, Ch. 13
c.	First Angel against Devil
d.	Second Angel against Sea Beast
e.	Third Angel against Land Beast
14,000 Virgins, Ch. 14
Seven Bowls of Wrath, Ch. 15-16
Fall of Whore City, Ch. 17-18
Marriage Liturgy of the Lamb, Ch. 19
The Millennium, Ch. 20
a.. Judgment of the Beasts, Satan and the Dead
New Heaven, New Earth, New Jerusalem, Ch. 21
River of Life, Ch. 22

Written: 10012018
Poetry Form: List
Copyright © Jacqueline R. Mendoza
Form: List

Blank Outline

She hid within a hole inside herself that had a hole in it so when I took the picture an outline was left but never her whole image she said it's hard for her to focus and that that may be the reason why I can't capture something that's so distant a collage of close up shots taken by Kodak lenses to expose the value of the film by stepping back to get a better view of what the naked eyes missing her radiating with the sunlight making the photograph look so artistic.

Outline

Framed by rosy mountain twilight
Angelized and star-kist
Beauty flowing with glowing lines
Above a silver mist

Lifted up by  moonbeam moments
Flying with practiced grace
Flying across the light of the moon
Outlined on his great face

©Copyright 2015. All rights reserved.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Outline of Me

Sandra
Who is a poet, artist, retired business owner
Who is warm, giving, sensitive, creative, positive
Who is a loving wife of 56 years
Who is a loving mother of three and grandmother of five
Who is a loyal and loving friend 
Who loves poetry, art, opera, animals
Who feels spiritual, inspired, devoted, needed
Who needs love, family, friends, security, order
Who gives love, help, advice, time
Who fears the world situation and future for next generations
Who would like to see peace in the world and a return to values and respect
Who shares artistic talents, leadership, organizational skills
Who is a resident of Newburgh, New York
Haight


Sandra M. Haight

~First Place~
Contest: Bio Poems
Sponsor: Regina Riddle
Contest Judged: 10/2014
Form: Bio

Outline

anointed by indifference,
chastened by chance,
punished by shame -
rewarded by peace,
knighted by love -

Premium Member Outline of a Ghost

I see tears that pour down my crying face
Reaching illusions of my life alone
I see the outline of a ghost in space
Transparent and see thru, seems to have grown
My tears just enlighten and fill with grace
It won’t go away, it’s stuck to this zone
Memories flood my senses, hurt creeps in
Ghost is my lost love, buried deep within

Russell Sivey

Just a made up poem…

Brutus Iulius Trois Page Last Outline

the unfinished ending verse is currently

So the trjojans came to Albion's Isle 
The encampent named Totness - the headlands of All
for when brutus stepped down from his ship he shouted
here I am and take my rest, and This place is all
Veni et requiesce sum totus

there is a lot between still being written
who / what greets brutus at troy
how long he stays why he leaves -who else he picks up and loses in his travails 
how mad is neptune about the several times lost sacrifice hesoine the great grey seal/ sea-dog
his adventures south to egypt tying into scots history
, and around north africa , malta, spain and france
before getting to totness
Form: Epic

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