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Best Foreground Poems

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


For Friend Lisa Ricci, Foreground Background
The universe is in your eyes
(It exists in processing; God's the background)
After this life, the energy Pole - and the eyes -
Allow Consciousness Pole to...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: foreground, analogy, life, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Didactic



Premium Member A Stark Naked Pause

concerned about being upstaged
the glorious blue tinted rock
negotiated 
sent in the puffy white wisps 
to cover the vibrant coloured evergreens

the brown field in the foreground
felt...

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Categories: foreground, beauty, earth, nature, planet,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Into the Blue
I sit 
at a small table
outside a café.
Along a low
orange wall,
rows and rows 
of  flowered bushes
decorate
the foreground of
a breathtaking scene.
Out to
a horizon
where sea meets...

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Categories: foreground, summer,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member With My Dying Breath
* My take on the theme of my contest. Just for fun. 

A canopy of silvery stars speckle the ebon expanse above me, at once...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: foreground, anxiety, fear,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member For Chan Hurst - a Life Too Brief
With these twelve words...

art has no restrains 
there is nothing that can chain it down
no fabric that can not be broken from.

*FoRm?
>that de...pe...nd...s.<
WHAT duz iT reSEMble
fOrM...

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Categories: foreground, bereavement,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Light Pockets
Deep in a pocket of light, well within the harsh night
of heat and longing, safe within the porch’s embrace
the down turned eyes .. the upturned...

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Categories: foreground, art, confusion, devotion, imagination,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Passion of An Artist
The landscapes I paint have fence one or two
Some with pegs bent, some with bars broken,
Fence between pathway draped in autumn hue
And bare pasture embedding...

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Categories: foreground, art, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Landscape
To be lost in Her magnificence:
pristine and pleasant
alive every moment
renewing and moving...

To see the charm:
The charm of an Idyllic Spirit...

As I wander through
widespread wilderness...

My eyes'...

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Categories: foreground, nature,
Form: Free verse
Psalm-Raa1
Oh Lord please tell me what Isaiah meant 

That “the wilderness and the dry land shall be glad;

the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the...

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Categories: foreground, religious,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member January
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Cold and bleak is its curtain.
The holiday festivities are over.
Time to curl up and hibernate until spring beckons
with its golden hand and floral call.
Just two...

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Categories: foreground, january, winter,
Form: Free verse
I Meme, Therefore I Am
forgot what I had set out to remember
when my deconstructed self
discovered there was no authentic anything
saw through it all every granule
how we became the unwitting...

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Categories: foreground, crazy, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hutain Dreaming
Vivid streamers in my mind,
as time came to a sudden stop.
Within my dream I can rewind,
the foreground or just the backdrop.
Upside down, back or make...

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Categories: foreground, mystery
Form: Verse
After the Storm
tree frogs are singing
to orange-black tinted clouds
against purple sky

set in the foreground
an A-Frame rooftop peeks out
between long-leaf pines

further off due south
thunder still rumbles and rolls
threatening...

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Categories: foreground, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Love Rose
The Love Rose

Love like a red rose bloomed in our hearts
It grew in time but was disguised
Hidden thorns prick and stings in our souls
Until there...

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Categories: foreground, love, passion, romance,
Form: Verse
Four Africa Poems
MOMBASA

Full moon uneasiness
Veranda dining, seven course style,
One day after my thirty sixth birthday,
I dine alone, in a poem.
Waiting for the Moon to pass to wane...

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Categories: foreground, adventure, africa, travel, universe,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things