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Best Architectural Poems

Below are the all-time best Architectural poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of architectural poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member The Old Victorian
My great, great Aunt had a lovely old home,
with many a wonderful story,
hidden within its walls.

A Victorian, architectural designers dream;
vaulted ceilings, full of ghosts;
where spirit...

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Categories: architectural, home, house, poems, poetry,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Negative Love
Our eyes met 
Across the room
The sight of her
My heart went boom
 
Her shiny hair
Skin so fair
Slimline body
Shaped to stare
 
I introduce
Myself to her
Her accent...

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Categories: architectural, love, passionnight, me, night,
Form: Rhyme
Sara's Waters
I approach the wooded trails and hear nothing save for my footfalls crunching in the soft snow. It is the kind of winter day that...

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Categories: architectural, analogy, nature,
Form: Haibun
As I Paddled the River Nile
As I paddled the river Nile
I met a monstrous crocodile. 
She smiled at me enticingly.   
I smiled deferentially.  
Through large white teeth...

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© John Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: architectural, adventure, funny, me, me,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member City of the Sky Gondola's
The city of Prague
In a different world
Its centre ripped
The whole world heard
 
Its now separated by
Canyons so deep
The day it happened
To hear a country weep
...

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Categories: architectural, fantasycity,
Form: Rhyme



The Gate of Death
THE GATE OF DEATH
 
I will shut my gate; and no man can open it.
And if I open it; all men shall come in once...

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Categories: architectural, abuse,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Italian Road Trip
My wife and I share a passion for travelling, the world we love to see
We travelled through France and Switzerland and we're now in Italy...

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Categories: architectural, city, holiday, mountains, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Brideshead Revisited
I lay awake in that dark hour and was reflecting on my life
From all the travelling I had done to the breakup with my wife
I...

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Categories: architectural, england, memory, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member What Comes After Tuesday
"I'm hearing images, I'm seeing songs no poet has ever painted
Voices call out to me, straight to my heart"

Cold, emotionless, and her nature, defiant 
Hard...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: architectural, analogy, character, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Pastoral Passage - Church Crypt
Butterfly wing door vestibule builds anticipation  
Shuffled, carpet muffled greetings, familiar embraces            ...

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Categories: architectural, baptism, bible, celebration, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Notre Dame
Notre Dame...Notre Dame...
your eight hundred years of wisdom’s gone;
eight hundred years of beauty strong;
architectural sage, Notre Dame.

Notre Dame your life has seen
so many broken centuries...

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Categories: architectural, art, beautiful, christian, fire,
Form: Rhyme
Unity In Cultural Diversity
The westerners eat Amala and Ewedu
We eat Akpo and Ofe Nsala
They dance Juju and Apala
We dance bongo and atilogwu the beat of life.
T^he Northerners speaks...

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Categories: architectural, art, beautiful, , western,
Form: Free verse
The Cost of Education
Ossenburger, the business genius, 
when he graduated from college, 
he started a budget mortuary service.

Five dollars a corpse!
He was the Wal-Mart of death.
Burry ‘em, burn...

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Categories: architectural, business, death, education, funeral,
Form: Free verse
The Finest Antebellum Mansion In the South
The Finest Antebellum Mansion in the South

By Elton Camp

Windsor was near the banks of the Mississippi River 
Extreme luxury, size, beauty and comfort it did...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: architectural, historyhouse, war, house, war,
Form: Rhyme
Black Helicopters Overhead
i hope you don't mind 
if I wander in through your front door
and reset your clocks to headlight savings
life requires humor he said to the...

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Categories: architectural, howl, slam,
Form: Free verse

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