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Best Focal Point Poems

Below are the all-time best Focal Point poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of focal point poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Chasing Sandpipers and Gulls
I set up an easel in the shade of my beach umbrella. Wanting to paint by the morning light, I dabbed colors onto the palette...sea...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: focal point, child,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member 'grow Fainter'
our doubts fade away
when our focal point becomes 
positivity

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Categories: focal point, hope, inspiration, life,
Form: Senryu
Consequences of Infatuation
out of everything that i’ve ever been told in my life
out of all the things that have been said to me that render me 
obligated...

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Categories: focal point, angst, art, i love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member IT STARTED WITH A BLANK CANVAS
Love is a blank canvas, a phantasmagoric fantasy,
to pucker up with glossy lips, the subtle soft brush
against the opposite sex, with eye-shades drawn.

Love doesn’t know...

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Categories: focal point, first love,
Form: Verse
Living the Dream
Our family gatherings have always been filled with nostalgic glimpses into a much simpler life. A life shown to us young’uns through the many stories...

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Categories: focal point, poetry,
Form: Haibun



Night Like a Blade
Night draws out like a long, sharp blade.
Keen edged, it carves its image upon a 
black-ink sky. As iron sharpens iron, the 
knife hurls glowing...

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Categories: focal point, moon, night, stars,
Form: Free verse
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots Vi
Strategically placed when raised 
Upwards
By your masterful and well 
Practiced hand.
To mingle with ever changing 
Skylines 
That frown down with arrogant 
Scowls
Upon the indigenous populous...

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Categories: focal point, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Looking To My Future
Being mindful of my own roots as a Filipino,
with episodes of successes and failures,
with mirror images of my own culture,
show a sliver of commonality with...

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Categories: focal point, dedication, faith, history, hope,
Form: Narrative
Ensued Precedent
Languor of the mind
I.	My, my, My how times flies.
        Another year has transpired.
     ...

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Categories: focal point, city, conflict, corruption, faith,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Mathematics
Pessimists call Maths, abyss of a subject,
A subject invented to detest their brains,
A subject of arithmetical errors,
Errors, that need a heap of stint to complete...

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Categories: focal point, confusion,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member My Picture Frame
MY PICTURE FRAME

In my picture frame, I count nine
Standing neatly in a row
Two are hers and two are mine
And that accounts for four

Two others are...

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Categories: focal point, faith, family, love, thanksgiving,
Form: Rhyme
If Mahatma Were Alive Today
He would have dissolved the congress party
Would have stopped at once all its festivity
Certainly would have gone on hunger strike
And, would have, launched a blistering...

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Categories: focal point, hero, inspiration,
Form: Light Verse
Corruption Crusader
I cannot focus on the focal point to equivocal, the pain in my memory, to memorial site. The night smells gunpowder in the middle galaxy...

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Categories: focal point, hip hop, poverty, prejudice,
Form: Political Verse
Written In the Sky
Do you hear them?

Woodland creature amidst the thicket, drawn, oblivious to indifference beneath 
heavenly luminescence.
And I, baring admiration in acknowledgement, plea to the awakening of...

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Categories: focal point, devotion, family, life, love,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Erotic Fantasy- a Product of Teenage Infatuation-Experience of a Girl
Gently lying on my bed with my slickly Pink Pajamas,
I fell asleep like a peaceful baby,
then the windows opened in complete excitement,
and the seas breezed...

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Categories: focal point, adventure, fantasy, imagination, mystery,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs