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Best Closeup Poems

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


I'Ve Loved You Forever
There it is again,
 that feeling so ingrained
  every time you say my name;
as if time has never existed
 and every meeting we had...

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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: closeup, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Dreaming of Those Years
  
The past comes in a dream,
pain I've worked so hard to forget;
holding back sadness and regret.
I see the place where I grew up,
and...

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Categories: closeup, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Private Roscoe D. Schlink
The Army was getting desperate in nineteen-forty-three,
For warm bodies to fill vacancies in the good old infantry.
Alas, the draft board beckoned causing his heart to...

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Categories: closeup, funnyold, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Easter Lily
The Easter lily welcomes spring,                    ...

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Categories: closeup, beautiful, birth, flower, god,
Form: Rhyme
All Good Things Come To An End
Somethings are meant to break
Some relationships are meant to fall apart
Turn to dust

This is a lost cause
You passed the line,
The one I call "the limit"

I...

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Categories: closeup, life,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Exuberant Light
Exuberant Light

Selfless rays spring from tonal anagrams 
Crystal daybreaks that never know twilight
Released from the pure rhapsody “I Am”
Innocent of intention, free of night,
Nascent from...

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Categories: closeup, giving, god, life, light,
Form: Dizain
Premium Member Quiver
I was shaken from my bed,                   ...

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Categories: closeup, dream, house, husband, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Total Time I Spent In Dental Chair Post Adolescence To Present Age First Appointment
so much precious existence 
found me rooted with mouth ajar 
as sigh asper the dentin-cementum 
so mud dear reader (with dem perfect 
enameled pearly whites),...

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Categories: closeup, body, depression, feelings, grief,
Form: Imagism
My Morning Routine
Daily morning birds chirp to wake me up
Sometimes they form a singing group.
Through the sylvan windows with teacup,
I enjoy the early morning tranquility to warm...

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Categories: closeup, morning, nature,
Form: Monorhyme
Out of the Sea
wondrous stuff is happening
awash within a silent bay 
a cell appears, divides 
and life reflected in its mother home,
a tender hydra will eschew its rest
and...

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Categories: closeup, philosophy, history, life, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Click
CLICK…
Turn on Channel four,
Sultry starlets on the screen
For lasting beauty- use Maybelline
For winning smiles-try new Dentyne.
Turn the dial once more…
Aging actors on the screen
“You have...

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Categories: closeup, funny, satireme, time,
Form: Light Verse
Strikes Out
media quotes some sources
"a major blow" is said,
and on, and on, they go
high-flying low-res video
of many, many miles below
pressin' technology's clout
to takin' part in takin'...

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© Goode Guy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: closeup, abuse, angst, introspection, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dos
I want to kiss your pretty face
Around the world in every place
Where romance lives and shines so bright
Where every day is only night

Where we could...

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Categories: closeup, desire, for her, i
Form: Rhyme
What Did I Ever Do
"I'm breaking up,"
he said closeup
after I said sup

What are you
talking about too
You're makin' me blue

Just because you moved
doesn't mean we have to be removed
from love,...

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Categories: closeup, betrayal, boyfriend, break up,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member That About a Face
That About A Face

Previously responsible concerning an adolescent resplendent facial hallmark,
Awarded to privileges and sanctioned embellishment favoring enhancement,
Over time, years chip away unnoticeably o'er worn...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: closeup, age, analogy, endurance, extended
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs