Best Complete Picture Poems

I could wrap you
In secret
And cling
Like double-sided
Just to keep
Your gift
From prying eyes

But I have
No label
A name, perhaps
But no concept
No complete picture
For the pieces
Of you

Labels
Are for things.
Boundaries.
Pigeon holes.
For just a
Moment
In the journey

We remove them
On arrival
Or when they are
Dog-eared 
Or when they are wrong
Or at least
We should

I...

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Tooth and Nail

In this space, this world we have created,
it is - for most – a very slippery slope
that seems – for many – to be frustrated
by this feeling – there is very little hope.

Upon the edges of this world – scars of mans
attempt –...

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Apprehensions in thoughts may form a labyrinth,
and like a cipher open up to become a plinth
but still the belief beholds to achieve what is imagined,
Though in a fog,the wanderer still feels attuned,
Let it be light or the approaching darkness,
but it isn't a mirage showing its...

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It’s another red-letter day
a holiday in the U.S.
a national, religious holiday
known also as a ‘Turkey Day’
a very important day.

A chance to be reconnected,
a moment of being together,
a salutary occasion for gratitude,
full with family folderol.

There are historic reasons 
this American celebration
has its origin centuries ago;
as the...

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Under the bridge in Del Rio are stopped, stuck, stationed
Thousands of migrant Haitians, not Ukrainians
Frankly, if they were the latter, they wouldn’t be sanctioned
Detained, abased, mistreated and deported like Haitians
Like herds of cattle to detention centers in Mexico or in their Homeland
It’s asinine, sad, odious,...

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Uneasy calm!The crystal ball of clearity incompletely serened atmosphere for 
serious,sensible decision making.A profane confirmation of black or white,
narrow or wide,positive,negative or neutral response.A turning point!
Uneasy calm!Pervades the air in an atmosphere of temporary settled confusion,
upheaval and general uncertainties awaiting a definite final answer.Certainly a...

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Within me there is greatness
held back by popular opinion
limitations have been formed to bury me
This life is full so scorn
so much waiting and wishing
decisions are not my own
Chains have been placed upon me
placing blinders upon eyes
the complete picture is not clear
Dreams are present
reality feels like...

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Run!
My son,
The long race.
Be encouraged!

And be strong.
Not swift,
Go!



Comments:  The Septolet poem has seven lines with a total of fourteen words.  It 
has two parts with a break between each part.  This one has a syllable count 
pattern of 1,2,3,4,3,2,1. The same thought...

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Love
Gracious savior
Preserving my soul
Such comfort

Resurrection
Saving grace
His love for us


Comments:  The Septolet poem has seven lines with a total of fourteen words.  It 
has two parts with a break between each part.  The same thought and picture is 
portrayed in both parts for...

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Serene spread of cerulean sea
calmly cradles an emerged island,
girdled by slim silver garland.
Trees scaling cloudy cobalt sky,
complete picture of pristine isolation.
#3
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I couldn't come to visit you, 
After we followed up behind you, 
And the four men carrying; 
They really had no right to. 

Some difficult path that was, wasn't it, 
Putting you into box, then leaving you, 
Lowered under turf?
I thought my gaunt expression then,
Would...

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Is awful simply animal that is awful
Or is it something besides its looks not casual?
Something that will dazzle 
Within the soul of this devil

Looking like large griffin with serpent tail
And huge claws that can impale
Like a beast from horror tale
Complete picture grey wings would in...

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To say I'm excited about going to college is like saying Godzilla is big - you don't get the complete picture - you don't see the buildings crumbling and civilians running for their lives. Leaving for college is one of those foundational moments in life...

My...

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Your fabrications are all that ring true;
You do what you do holding a motive;
That bawdy neon sign reads ‘Ballyhoo’.
Why am I attracted to corrosive?
Patchwork display of broken art you drew,
complete picture is the gift that I give;
I can’t do artificially flavored
unable to stomach empty handed....

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