Best Abstraction Poems

expound, do smiles fade
as memory distorts reality
how can we know
we were happy then...

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ABSTRACTION

The black stripe
With crossing red slashes
Is not a chocolate cookie

These are paint strokes
Put on paper
Representational things – perhaps

But are they words?
Given aura
This could make them so

A thousand word poem
These strokes
But no chocolate cookie

Dave Austin...

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I crept cautiously down the stairs, I looked at my watch, it was almost 6:30, dinnertime. My heart began to beat quickly, my chest filled with dread. I tiptoed to my place at the table. I kept my eyes down, looking at my hands, not...

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in layers I rest
a dreamer at best
now slightly distressed 
petal wrapped poultice
there's nothing amiss
settled and dreaming 
no longer screaming
long past redeeming

fashioned in flowers
undenied powers
even when all sours
when white, black and grey
makes up the bouquet
let her have her say
lest rose's abyss 
your last reminisce...

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Sundrenched scenes fusing space and light..
Abstraction ,fantasy and dreams.Images
transformed with intimate freshness.
Tranquillity of shimmering light
saturating the everyday garden scene
incandescent,yellow,red and green.

inspired by the Impressionist garden painting exhibition 

Hear my recitation of much of my PS anthology on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro ..and

read ...

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a haibun ABSTRACTION
The soft yellow streaked the terra cotta,shadowing the speckled sallow saffron 
a bluish buff upon the cochineal;brilliant boneblack grizzled the engrain
citrine carnation as the fallow flaxen,rustic rubrical rainbow-tinted 
the magenta mandarine;unseen the ultra-marine, tinged burnt sienna,
reflecting a golden flame of raw umbery upon...

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Be, will be
the memories of a galaxy
an impossible subtraction
from an abstraction of reality

Divide, split, separate
isolationisms dependent
breaks every concept 
of whole

Evolutionary individuality
fractal conscious of
minds universality
divine focus of

The eternities
precipitations of life

Singularity, will
will be
the footprints of you
standing beside 
an infinite sea

The abstractions of God
from reality

Only one foot upon
the...

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Pastel
Burnt sienna
Tinged the golden flame-
Reflecting raw umbery on the
Red earth

Unseen
A bluish buff
Grizzled a silver grain
Into lavender scented
Shadows


Copyright © Brian Strand | Year Posted 2007...

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Woman with spineless dresses 
And men with sleeveless shirts,
Boys with Scary custom's 
And girls with gentle toys,
Crying babies, and singing cats 
Dogs born from the dark:
So they bark to be heard,  

No bones and whistles for wolves,
No man's best friend?
Just howls at the moon,
Venus...

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ABSTRACTION OF NATURE
absurdity
  becomes enticing
rejoicing in  symmetry
imitated
by the conspicuous
&novel
enshrined
in mystery
with a freshness
      liberated
by the
 profound

   an influence
in balanced sensuality
decadent even
in a
  relaxed stance
akin
to  a sentimental
  ethereal figure
an
acquaintance
   outside of self
&
appreciation
   out of need

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...

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He left his favorite asset with me to calm down the silent pain.

February 2nd, 2020...

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permeable
             layers
brown&grey

white light
       lineages
in the
                infinite
moving

creation
      ...

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compelling
    dreamlike
 captivates
&unfolds
infuses
 with
the dynamic
hybrid

 interpretation

 expressiveness
  in
a mixed
    narrative
upon
a
canvas
of
 the
 atmospheric
recesses
of
 the subconscious

where
inspiration
 transcend
the ordinary
&
 delves
into
 the symbolic

prompts imaginative
&collective
 meaning

evoking
narrative
 emotions
 in a
lexicon
 of
eniched
intensity...

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I dread thee soul.
The bold it rows,
Perchance, A mistake.

I see yee soul.
The form it takes,
It appears to be...of a lake.

A lake to all, that i endow,
To all of which, that i do wish.
Maybe you are...indeed,
For me the lake.
For i know yee soul,
The woo's it gives,
Its...

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Eyes of fire and steel
A heart full
The rhythm going numb

A boy cries a year younger
Beside me
And a year younger 
Than I was -

Except me,
It is cruel for any body
To feel the longing

Or the falling -
Down - the rabbit hole
Into a field of prairie smoke

I'm in...

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