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Afterimage Poems - Poems about Afterimage

Afterimage Poems - Examples of all types of poems about afterimage 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 afterimage.
Premium Member Tomorrow Was Far Away
...The red sky became a dark fading light across a darkened meadow where our hands were still visible as we tried to touch the sky a star fell cutting through the black canvas vanishing as......Read the rest...
Categories: afterimage, love,
Form: Free verse



Wedding Toast
...I am at a wedding in Iowa. She called to tell me that the orange afterimage from that afternoon five years ago has filled her brain for the first time in years. I don’t have the heart to t......Read the rest...
Categories: afterimage, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Painting
...with the first peek of dawn over the marsh nature rubs the sleep from her eyes leaving splotches of red, blue, and brown as an afterimage. Just so, the finches, cardinals and jays eat an e......Read the rest...
Categories: afterimage, bird,
Form: Free verse
Etchings of Love: a Subtle Afterimage
...On the canvas of life, your signature lies, Etched onto my granite heart, and the ever-changing skies. Your essence, turned my primary colours, to vibrant schemes, And now, in every hue I see that......Read the rest...
Categories: afterimage, first love, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Memories Leave An After Image
...Memories of you left an afterimage in my eyes I found blindness to be a comfort where darkness dressed in dreary black and my soul laid its head on my heart's grave to weep about wishes withdrawn......Read the rest...
Categories: afterimage, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Between the Eyes of Lovers
...Sensuality is the wellspring that feeds passion to the soul through the deepest depth of desire that pauses in quiet solitude before leaving an afterimage in the eyes where it burns the boundari......Read the rest...
Categories: afterimage, romance, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Aren'T You Happy It's Only a Dream
...Consciousness filled me. The dream evaporated from my eyes, Leaving behind an afterimage of nonsense. Soon after, I found control of my limbs; Wiggling my toes This way and that. I stret......Read the rest...
Categories: afterimage, dark, dream, evil, horror,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Precious Jewel
..."i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) i am never without it (anywhere i go you go..." ee Cummings In the silent wondrous wonders of my yearning, you appeared as a lasting ......Read the rest...
Categories: afterimage, love,
Form: Free verse
Endless Waiting
...Unclear and unfocused thoughts, Trapped in negative emotions. I can't seem to chase away the bad thoughts. All I can do is sit around. I'm waiting for someone, But I can't remember who. I'm w......Read the rest...
Categories: afterimage, anxiety, dark, depression, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ultramarine
...It’s the point of no return. Eyes dive in, swim, drown, refuse rescue. Denser than black, fiercer than blood, a telepathy of purple, a saturation of half-remembered yearnings. It’s a......Read the rest...
Categories: afterimage, art, beauty, blue, color,
Form: Ekphrasis
The Father I Lost
...Memories felt after so long repressed Now burn like a fire inside of my chest They flow now as ink from the tip of my tongue For the father I lost when I was too young These memories loosed li......Read the rest...
Categories: afterimage, death, father, loss,
Form: Elegy
Moonlit Thoughts
... Last night, the "wolf moon's" crepuscular aura glowed. A luminous peach orb, it hung in its abode so spectacularly, that I silently slowed my weekend walk through the willowwack......Read the rest...
Categories: afterimage, beautiful, moon,
Form: Monorhyme
Rocking Under Starry Heavens - Deuxieme Jambe
...As others Rush out from Subdivisions applying War Paint hiding Scars All have Grand Designs, their own Missions you feel as Nobody's Hero watching their fancy cars What You're Doing more than ......Read the rest...
Categories: afterimage, celebration, music,
Form: Quatrain
Go Now, Love
...I know you have to leave, so go now, love I'll be waiting here for you, it's okay- And missing you doesn't start instantly Since your presence lingers, for a short time Like the afterimage on you......Read the rest...
Categories: afterimage, analogy, longing, love, missing
Form: Iambic Pentameter
I Wonder
...You know I wonder, what's our position look like to you? The emotions we felt for eachother, to you were they ever true? Nah, you were looking right through, searching for a place to nest You found m......Read the rest...
Categories: afterimage, feelings, girl, missing you,
Form: Rhyme

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