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Art Poems | Examples of Art Poetry

Art Poems - Examples of all types of art poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for art.
who's 'fraid of poems?
who's 'fraid of poems? not I, I said. Then again, who's 'fraid of poems?...Read the rest...
Categories: art,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Gertrude Abercrombie, Woman with Tethered Horse and Moon
nothing really holds us in place and I'm not sure where we go to when we rear up then some semblance of order restores, everything settles...Read the rest...
Categories: art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Will you be mine?
Are you for real? What if you are fake I fear. You make me feel something, I'm not myself nevermind it's nothing. I wish time to stop when I am with you, Life seems magical morelike getting out of my...Read the rest...
Categories: art, beautiful, butterfly, crush,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Maestro
Composed, he walks towards the podium. At first to applause, until a hush forms. His heart beats like a water pump, sweat drips - eyes fixed at his ensemble. Audience anticipates, as he stands at the nexus of musical creations. With...Read the rest...
Categories: art,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member SL ecphrasisi couplet VI
David Hockney iphones flowers each day so his untitled* still life never stray...Read the rest...
Categories: art,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member SUPPORTISTA viallat
a kindred impulse exploring structure recontextualised repetition &chance within the stark form of infinite variabiility ...Read the rest...
Categories: art,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member CLERIHEW ecphrasis XXV
Degas 'After the Bath'* still live model by the hearth An apparent solitry act but a sequenced series. in actual fact...Read the rest...
Categories: art,
Form: Ekphrasis
How do we convince them
When the wheels fall off, Some find a way to re-attach them, Others for a variety of reasons, See themselves as the reason they fell off, And yet others get it into their head, That they are not...Read the rest...
Categories: age, analogy, appreciation, art,
Form: Burlesque
Epigram z
. and about that “mine next think” ...Read the rest...
Categories: adventure, allegory, analogy, art,
Form: Epigram
Inspiration Is Soothing
Inspiration is soothing. Like a breeze that lands it’s crisp wings on the perspiration on your skin. Like a deep breath after holding no air in your lungs too long. Like a long awaited cup of coffee you’ve...Read the rest...
Categories: art, creation, humanity, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Pensive Painter
The allure of mirage magnetic, thirst unquenched in hidden hope unperceived, insight intuits crafty illusion in life of reality, rational awareness ...Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, art, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member CHARICATURISTA carracci
ludicrous exaggerations satirically posed to recognise a likeness & a trace the essence unseen within...Read the rest...
Categories: art,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member SL ecphrasis couplet V
Martin Gustavsson oil on linen 'black plums'* in close-up reality rarely succumbs...Read the rest...
Categories: art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member CLERIEW ecphrasis XXIV
Camille in a red kerchief" ever so 'wifley'supportive' Monet at his impressionist best with this intimate 'domestique 'jest ...Read the rest...
Categories: art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Nature Sings, Andaree
When perfumed pearls rest within tulip twilight, star-speckled gems mirror jade moonlight. Listen to the rain-kissed springs as dawn the breeze brings. Rhyme of heart sings abstract art within warmth of wings~ fluttering ruby red rings, shifting through mists of hazy midnight when...Read the rest...
Categories: art,
Form: Rhyme

Specific Types of Art Poems

Definition | What is Art in Poetry?


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