Best Canvass Poems
Below are the all-time best Canvass poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of canvass poems written by PoetrySoup members
OCD Overdrive collaboration with Ink Empress
Life is not as sweet as a bowl of golden glace cherries,
nor is there a golden illuminated future for a fruitless mind.
Trembling hands and gritted...
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Categories:
canvass, anxiety, care, mental health,
Form:
Free verse
Dawns GiftsSilver shimmers
reflected by the sea
When dawn kisses each
silhouetted tree.
As sunrise pierces
fleecy...
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Categories:
canvass, sun,
Form:
Rhyme
TattoosA two-legged canvass
in crimsons and blues
dragons ginormous
and suchlike tattoos
Diamonds and rare gems
that shimmer and shine
flowers on long stems
with sleek strokes and lines
Exciting ones...
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Categories:
canvass, art, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Painted EchoesA wash of gold adorns the westward sky
as waning light departs a summer’s eve;
in readiness to roost, crows cease to fly
and seek their resting place...
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Categories:
canvass, inspirational, life, nature
Form:
Sonnet
Years of the RoseHave I not heard the calling of day's gone by
or sat in careless prose and wondered why?
but years are as the rose
which are but reflections
that...
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Categories:
canvass, lost love, loveday,
Form:
Free verse
Why Do You WriteWhy do you write?
To give birth to beauty
To decorate a drab wall
To splash color on a canvass
To entertain and enthrall
Why do you write?
To become immortal
To...
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Categories:
canvass, on writing and words,
Form:
Rhyme
ArtistArtist
Color me naked with your sighs
Scribble me stripped
Stabbed
Slashed
Stippled on your skin
Paint me black
Seething in charcoal amber
Writhing in lines
The brush strokes of your tongue
Beseech
Craft me...
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Categories:
canvass, art, loveme, me,
Form:
Free verse
A Kneaded LifeI’ve watched him whither. He came to me a decade ago, stooped in pain. The fine-boned features of his face and the clarity of his...
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Categories:
canvass, age, dream, love,
Form:
Haibun
Sunrise-SunsetThe sunset glows in the wide Western sky,
placed there by the Master from on high.
Reds and golds of various shades
are splashed in mounds of beauty
on...
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Categories:
canvass, sky, , western,
Form:
Etheree
Life's Undiscovered PassionLIFE'S UNDISCOVERED PASSION
I reached up far to touch a star.
It only took a second.
I thought I heard a salient call
alas it did not...
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Categories:
canvass, art, creation, growth, identity,
Form:
Rhyme
Butterflies of BeautyBUTTERFLIES OF BEAUTY
Silent songful wanderer, soaring free on the sky
conquering, unafraid to the golden rays of the sun,
fluttering either slow or fast, their colors...
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Categories:
canvass, beauty, butterfly, inspiration, uplifting,
Form:
Blank verse
In Your SmileHow could I paint someone else's smile,
If my eyes can barely see the sky.
How could I start stroke a brush,
Then paint your face in a...
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Categories:
canvass, beauty, feelings, smile,
Form:
Blank verse
Dewberry Cobbler"Caleb, go fetch me some dewberries from the fence row," Momma says,
as I polish off my Saturday morning breakfast. "I'll make us a cobbler."...
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Categories:
canvass, growing up,
Form:
Haibun
MombasaStrange shadows on these coral walls
stay hidden from the setting sun,
yet creeping through the shafts of amber light
drag behind them to the high parapet
a...
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Categories:
canvass, death, dedication, family, introspection,
Form:
Elegy
It's Abstract .It seemed at first , a colour burst
Of dots and crooked lines ,
As I watched my "artful expert"
See how he defines
The colourful expression
That is...
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Categories:
canvass, art
Form:
Rhyme