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Literary Poems - Poems about Literary

Literary Poems - Examples of all types of poems about literary to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for literary.
Ink and Imagination Ephemera
... In the heart of the city, where stories unfurl, Stands a bookstore, my haven in a whirl. Shelves adorned with tales that swirl, Each book a treasure, each page a pearl. I, the guardian of......Read the rest...
Categories: literary, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



Dark Enthusiasm
...by cherbo geeplay Sometimes I swear I see the clouds closing in, always like a high tide boiling the ocean waves. Now I can't move my limbs and immobile tongue. I am speechless in a......Read the rest...
Categories: literary, conflict, race,
Form: Free verse
Unsettling premonition kickstarts fiendish abomination
...Unsettling premonition kickstarts fiendish abomination Consider the following dogmatic, enigmatic, fantastic, idiotic, jargonistic, kimetic, linguistic, narcissistic, opportunistic, poetic......Read the rest...
Categories: literary, adventure, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Antiquarian Echoes: Time-Traveling through an Old Library's Labyrinth
...In dust-laden silence, past the reach of day, The mansion's library whispered of forgotten tales, Its heartbeat echoed in the books arrayed. Time's soft touch graced each spine and page, Among ......Read the rest...
Categories: literary, books, nostalgia, old,
Form: Free verse
Ready to be Swallowed
... A giant road is emerging. My sandy path is ready to be swallowed. Gambol, amble, ramble, saunter, stride… My way knows a variety of my gaits. This is a stamped path in my gene as an elep......Read the rest...
Categories: literary, sad,
Form: Free verse



Eye Floaters
... The tiny specks grow a titanic tension. They’re often harmless, Google consoles her. Yet a rare chance burns beyond solace. Is it a harbinger of retinopathy? Will her eye-LEDs illumin......Read the rest...
Categories: literary, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Autumn is Green and Gold
...By Cherbo Geeplay I peer at thy rolling hills. Adorned with autumn's muted shades of yellow, green, and gold. The expansive forest radiates red leafs and splendor. While summer watches from her p......Read the rest...
Categories: literary, autumn, color, hope,
Form: Rhyme
'twuz vs t'wuz
.... Dramatic Verse uh well 'tiz ta me if'n I spell 'twuz wit this li'l dangly thingy ' preceding t mi......Read the rest...
Categories: literary, cool, sound, word play,
Form: Dramatic Verse
A Poet I Held
...By Cherbo Geeplay I supposed I was a poet whose ink was gilded With rich entrée that was settled and intrepid. I assumed I could bray the stony frothing ocean and see the dolphin Skate ......Read the rest...
Categories: literary, inspirational, light,
Form: Rhyme
BEHIND THOSE WALLS
...By Cherbo Geeplay My wife whispered: somebody, go call Muna to come here. Let her tell her dad what she told me today. I asked: What’s going on behind those walls in her room? Muna, our da......Read the rest...
Categories: literary, depression, gender, literature, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Masekela!
...By Cherbo Geeplay I can touch the rhythm of your beats, and sense the chirpy throb; the music streams it currents to my pulse, the hair on my skin rises, the trumpet ricochets, filling the roo......Read the rest...
Categories: literary, appreciation, celebration,
Form: Elegy
These are the Open Arms
...By Cherbo Geeplay You woke me up when I was dead, teaching the night stars wantonly to obey the Atlantic; then slashed my arteries in flight to Lake Piso, humbling its boundaries, before f......Read the rest...
Categories: literary, appreciation, love,
Form: Free verse
The Land of My Fathers
... By Cherbo Geeplay Africa, this sun drenched bliss, come to Botswana and see the terrific translucent creeks of Okavango Delta, as it blends with the sun rays and glistened. Let the unmist......Read the rest...
Categories: literary, africa, culture, eulogy,
Form: Rhyme
Heart of Courage
...By Cherbo Geeplay This, to the commanding officer who led his troops to war, on one knee and won in the trenches on the battlefield littered with landmines. I held your portrait sir, this......Read the rest...
Categories: literary, christmas, courage, rights, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Beg for Love
...By Cherbo Geeplay “Don’t die,” his mother cried by his hospital bed, weeping. “I will be fine,” he managed to mutter under thick breath, the stars visible as he stared at the c......Read the rest...
Categories: literary, black african american, class,
Form: Free verse

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