Best Distortion Poems
Below are the all-time best Distortion poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of distortion poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Soup by Picasso 1902-1903 New Poem 1256Poverty and hunger are bedfellows.~ The Poet~
Alluring, pleading
Yet it will burn,
Pangs of hunger
Immanent yearn.
Desperate child
So forlorn
For the poverty
To which she was born.
Minds...
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Categories:
distortion, poverty,
Form:
Ekphrasis
The Mirror Is a LiarTime to banish that old broken mirror
It only shows sadness it gives you tears
Its faulty reflection can paralyze
Don't listen to its voice tell you...
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Categories:
distortion, dedication, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
AspirationAspiration
Antoine had crashed once again when tempting the desert
Freedom fighter laureate poet daredevil testing the call of
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Categories:
distortion, hope,
Form:
Free verse
The Girl of Light and the Fly Peoplea collaborative work with Alfred Vassalo
The Stars sparkled in her eyes
As light interlaced with her shadow
Causing her to question her senses
Even though she closed her...
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Categories:
distortion, beautiful, depression, desire, dream,
Form:
Epic
Finding the PlotFinding the plot
Of lost innocence
engrained in untold memories
The silenced absence
in past present unspoken
stories well hidden
and therefore evoking
my past and my future
not mine and mine
Quite...
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Categories:
distortion, war,
Form:
Free verse
Romance Day and NightRomance 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...
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Categories:
distortion, romance, prejudice,
Form:
Narrative
Slides and StairwaysSomewhere in the pretty petty imaginary illusion of delusion
There lies a truth an edifice of search between obtuse confusion
Windows like brick walls and concrete blocks...
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Categories:
distortion, home, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Sleeping MachinesThe harbor gave a dim illumination,
lampposts vaguely penetrating the dark water.
As waves like shades of wine drowned the jagged shore of stone,
I watched a fibrous...
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Categories:
distortion, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
A Likelihood Understooda constanza
Is God’s viewpoint misunderstood?
Sodom burned in His discontent
for conduct our courts give assent.
Though some fault rests with Hollywood,
most immoral misbehavior,
living proof, man needs a...
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Categories:
distortion, 11th grade, christian, creation,
Form:
Rhyme
The Truth Behind HateIf Love is blind,
Hate is deaf.
Unable to hear optimism and open minds.
A barrier between reality and distortion.
Truth and Humbleness blocked by the brick wall of...
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Categories:
distortion, life, people, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Like a Galilee Once QuietedLike a tempest churning upward
on seething pinnacles of wind,
like a twisting, whirling violence
that is too cruel to comprehend;
thus the conflict of our nature
intensifies within the...
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Categories:
distortion, conflict, jesus, storm,
Form:
Rhyme
Waiting For a Lonely DeathIm trying to piece the puzzle of my mind together but theres missing pieces and all the remaining ones are covered in black stained memories...
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Categories:
distortion, anxiety, dark, depression,
Form:
I do not know?
Fifty Years Ago This JulyFifty years ago this July
Three American astronauts put the lie to 'Why'
On the surface of the Moon they made a pinpoint landing
...
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Categories:
distortion, courage, moon, space, today,
Form:
Rhyme
Mind-Body ConsciousnessI AM as I AM, free & formless in a domain timeless
In, as & one with & within the sea of Oneness
Dissolved and yet in...
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Categories:
distortion, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
I Am My Lover's InstrumentString my wires, tune me up.
Feel my curve under your arm.
I can play any way you want.
But you have to want it bad enough to...
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Categories:
distortion, love, me, me,
Form:
Free verse