Imagery Poems | Examples

To Hear Your Voice

I want to hear your voice
Not by will but by choice

I seek your guidance
For on you alone is where 
I place my reliance,
Alliance, radical defiance.


I want to hear your voice 
Above all voices that ever pieced
My ear I seek your final word what
Is it your declare?

I wish to hear your voice
To calm the turmoil of inner 
dialogue and rumination.

I want to hear your voice, 
the divine melody that guides my footsteps

Your words are the calm to all storms
Protection from external devastation.

I want to hear your voice
A light house and beacon 
among all dark forces that 
may come against me.

I want to hear your voice, the gentle thunder 
that awakens my soul from slumber, 

I want to hear your voice calling me to purpose beyond the noise of this world. 

I want to hear your voice, the sacred song that resonates 
in the silence of my heart,

I want to hear your voice reminding me I am never alone, 
That within your words I find my true home

Made of Cloth

the
green
dragontail
moth
with
her
wings
that
flutters
through
the
air
yet
made of cloth
is
God's creation


back's not enjoy'n it nope

.

                                    Ooooooo
                                      wait'up
                                    ooooouch
                                          No
                                     Oooouch

                               I hope you have 
                                    band aidz
                               there's gotta be
                                       blood

                            doez yuh sharpen
                              them nails girlie
                                  (((youch)))

Premium Member The Covered Bridge

A covered bridge once spanned across
this deep, dividing stream
and anxious reverence filled the thoughts
of all to trek its way.
Wrought iron bolts held taught and fast
this might of chiseled beam
as shingled roof and clapboard wall
held brevity at bay.

It stood the days when horses drew
their harvests to the mill
that lay beyond the river’s weir,
along the channel stride.
Its wooden slats were burnished clean
by spindled wagon wheels
and planks would whimper hallowed moans
as wind and stream collide.

Its stalwart strength held stoic
as a darker day encroached
and bore this Nation’s burden when
Her war was in its prime.
And some still hear the cannon wheels
engrave as they approached,
and Brogans pounding cadence as
formations march in time.

As time will do its passing drew
the strength from timbered bone,
and soon it came to call upon
this faithful trodden friend.
Two hundred years of lumbered toil
gave way to man-made stone
so, generations still to come
could bridge divides again.
Form: Pastoral

thuh bard'z imagery uv lust

.

                                        hern pluperfect
                                               just az 
                                             Mine see
                                             Mine lips 
                                        Nibbling dente
                                          Hot breathe
                                                 Lap
                                            
                                                were
                                                 taut
                                              nimble
                                                agile
                                                Loud
                                                    ,)
Form: Burlesque


Romantic conflict


Mist is deliberate veil
Just to notice 
If the eyes risk 
Entering to meet 
To greet and embrace 
The face wearing
A dotted lace 
Mulling to reveal 
Knotted thoughts 
Those plots 
Of dense stories 
Ivories of memory 
Glory of the sun
We used to build up 
From the point of 
The startup 
Until the plates and cups
Would get satiated 
And the golden dust 
of the pulverized sun
Would turn into 
The moon of contentment 

I know my dear 
That won't happen 
Because you're hesitant 
At the very entrance 
Of the mystery 
Ignoring the filigree beyond 
Waiting to dawn
  ______________

12 September 2025

Premium Member Pearl From Dew


Heavenly love sprays sunrise hue
on rose to make you a pearl from dew.

Oranges of the afternoon



Hospital waiting room in the afternoon 
Tired flowers looking after the patients
Saplings emerging from the interaction 
Oranges in the hands of the sun as it sets 
       
  ________________________
              11 September 2025

Let's fly out



Lost in writing iambic couplets, the moon and sea 
Sounds of whispers from between long eyelashes 
Waves moving from side to side, a provocation 
Quick, let's fly out, chirping the wild ducks 
   
                    ________________________

                        11 September 2025

Bill

Balancing accounts, my most hated chore,
Invoices piling higher than ever before.
Lists of too many charges haunt me today,
Lamenting the weight of each bill to pay.
Form: Name

For an autumn dawn



For only a few days, a sojourn 
With the mountains or by a waterfall 
In search of an autumn dawn 
Amidst the mist on the blades of grass 
           _______________________

              10 September 2025

Premium Member Prismatic Word-Picture Poems

Poetry paints prismatic word-pictures
A cubist painting programmed in plain air
Poetry and painting prize pure features,
For centuries, art crafted with grand care

Let us journey to juxtapose the two
Both attract the primeval painters' flair
With colours in rich red, yellow, and blue
Words sketching with wise theatrical care. 

Try to catch and caress the words you see
Draw sights and sounds into your fractal soul
Organic lines jotted down joyously
As fractal forms that fill Metatron's scroll

Golden spirals smeared in an author's room
Are geometry's homage on a loom.
Form: Sonnet

The 6th Chord


Upon witnessing the abrupt sunbeams 
Waves anew in the two ancient ponds
Bears and stallions from the black frame 
The major sixth chord in the piano 
         
              ______________________

                  September 10, 2025

Premium Member The Perfume Bottle

Ornate and half-full; the emptiness full of her scent.
Gentle wrists above soft hands,
with perfume’s disappearing sands.
Captured see-through embody;
an immovable body.
The dust gently swept away,
whilst ebb and flow of tears sway.
Purple urn does not consume;
she sleeps sans warm floral bloom.
Ornate and half-full; the emptiness full of her scent.

Blithe lift and douse of precious moments before ascent,
to pulse points of my mother;
romantic kiss of father.
The ring on her hand a splash;
Diamond spills heart throbbing ash.
Still, the soul ne’er sweetened better;
Scent was not a Dear John letter.
La Vie Est Belle Rose, does dare
to linger, last, propel, and share.
Blithe lift and douse of precious moments, before ascent.
Form: Rhyme

River in the poet's eyes




The water-filled pitcher is settled in your waist 
Walk easy, the road at the early hour is almost empty 
River in the poet's eyes is watching your movement 
Vocabulary from his heart is making a sketch 

             _______________________
           
                9 September 2025

Specific Types of Imagery Poems

Definition | What is Imagery in Poetry?

Poems Related to Imagery

symbolism, representation, mental images,

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