Get Your Premium Membership

Best Depictions Poems

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


A Sword of the Heavens Did Glean
A sword of the heavens did glean

From railings and arbors 
of dead thorn and bramble,
where ghostly reminders remain

Fall droplets of blood ‘pon
a crimson embroider
 left...

Read more of this work...
Categories: depictions, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Romance Day and Night
Romance Day And Night

How the Romans played their moonlit dreams
splashing out near viaducts of love I can only
wonder same as with knights in shining armour
or...

Read more of this work...
Categories: depictions, romance, prejudice,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Year 6555
We're now in the year 6555, and I am feeling happy and so alive,
Above, sunshine pours like honey, as along the oceanside I drive.

Wind whips...

Read more of this work...
Categories: depictions, fantasy, future, imagery, nature,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Shield of Justice
Captain America’s shield of justice
Is more than a symbol of law and order,
It stands for all that is brave and true
In America – from border...

Read more of this work...
Categories: depictions, america, freedom, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
To the Surprise of the Sea
To The Surprise of The Sea



In place of me
There is you

You stand before me
Open door

In this light
The light of you

Makes of me
More for you

And the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: depictions, love
Form: Free verse



Premium Member My Search For Art Knowlege
I go to the art gallery often ...
          I like it all ... the Renaissance, Gothic,...

Read more of this work...
Categories: depictions, art,
Form: Free verse
Some Where Along the Road...
I Long For Home...

I'm Gone And Alone...

Talking In Code...

Witch Is Encrypted...

With Depictions...

Of Jurisdictions...

I Don't Occur To Fit In...

With Your Religon...

Theres More Confliction...

Due To Your Past-Tence...

Read more of this work...
Categories: depictions, depression
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Into the Distance
INTO THE DISTANCE

a solitude
with
    an abrupt
transition

  depictions
in  parallel
designed to
   balance the
organic

  profiled
 losing oneself
to
the void
    ever returning
simmering
  on the surface
of the
featureless
   sands

THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently...

Read more of this work...
Categories: depictions, poetry,
Form: Other
Premium Member Death and Life - Gustav Klimt - 1286
Life and Death in two separated clusters, Klimt draws conflicts.
The serenity of his cycle of life is bright in pure color, he depicts.
A modern dance...

Read more of this work...
Categories: depictions, dance, death, life,
Form: Ekphrasis
Roast of An Unnamed Poet
He's packin' magic Viagra
Muse infused grooves set the mood
grab ya' and stab ya' 
we're opposites 
still we speak the same language 
teach and preach truth
every...

Read more of this work...
Categories: depictions, allegory, history, rap, slam,
Form: Ode
The Cross and the Lynching Tree
The Cross and The Lynching tree are the two most emotional depictions
Of the African experience in America when it comes to the descriptions
Of the historical...

Read more of this work...
Categories: depictions, black african american, death,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member My Addiction
The music is low, as the pages unfold
A dusty worn novel, on bent-spinal shores 
These classic old books, are my treasures of gold

A narrative story,...

Read more of this work...
Categories: depictions, books, happiness,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Medusa
Amongst myths and legends shadow realm,
Dwells an ancient evil.
Beneath temples walls, and shattered ruins,
Beware mortals of what lies within the,
Burnt offerings wreckage.
In a hushed stilled...

Read more of this work...
© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: depictions, halloween, holiday, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Journeyman
A Journeyman

Prologue and Epitaph:

I am the fool, the jester, clown, a harlequin, charade, façade of many
shades and colours, mascara over broken fragments, dead and gone

1)	Megalomaniac...

Read more of this work...
Categories: depictions, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member "paradox"
Form: Riddle Poetry

The fact is that fiction an’t,
From either brush stroke, an artist can paint.
Likewise, a poet is or a poet an’t.
 
The fact is,...

Read more of this work...
Categories: depictions, life, love
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs