Get Your Premium Membership

Best Frieze Poems

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


Premium Member Inner Lost Child
We wander all, in feral dreams
of jagged thoughts and cryptic yearns;
a labyrinth of mirrored turns.

Along a ridge of moon stitched seams,
lie melancholic tapestries,  
unfolded...

Read more of this work...
© David Mohn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: frieze, childhood, dream,
Form: Rhyme



Artist
Solo artist Snow works throughout night,
silently painting rooftops white,
crayons lawns, pencils in trees
a dazzling shade of white
over his great frieze;
his masterpiece
wins acclaim,
then melts -
shame!

Jack Horne...

Read more of this work...
© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: frieze, nature,
Form: Nonet
Premium Member Sunflowers Vincent Van Gogh
It's pure excitement, on the edge
To know what I have, what I do - is admired
Creating from insight into pigment
Repeating, surrounding myself, you
My friend
This is...

Read more of this work...
Categories: frieze, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Nadametine
Iridescence and subliminal flow has condensed within your fragrant bower,
a scene of isolated beauty that portrays the essence of all splendour and redeeming 
power.

You are...

Read more of this work...
Categories: frieze, fantasylonging,
Form: Rhyme
Birds Acrostic
BIRDS

    B    reathless each day the winged ones burst and unite into the twilight frieze--
    ...

Read more of this work...
Categories: frieze, animal, beauty, introspection, life,
Form: Acrostic



A Stream After Rain
The bottom is a mottled 
healthy brown
A city of roots from 
overhanging trees
Minnow flit from light to shade 
to shadow
The surface dappled an 
intricate faux...

Read more of this work...
© Joe Murphy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: frieze, appreciation
Form: Couplet
City of Trees
City of Trees 

1
Johannesburg, home to ten million trees,
It’s the world’s largest urban arboretum.
Streets in summer lie beneath green canopies.

2
From sidewalks their branches meet with...

Read more of this work...
Categories: frieze, environment,
Form: Villanelle
Sleeping In the Rain
Every step forward brings an 
energised momentum. Leading
me toward a portal which leads
me to the Styx ferryman

I am confronted with this resoundingly
unique shape, the emblem...

Read more of this work...
Categories: frieze, funeral,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Not a Poem But a Library
I look at a pile of books bringing the memories of my past libraries
as a child only comics from the kid next door 
that I...

Read more of this work...
Categories: frieze, remember,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Forest Queen
When trees awaken from their winter sleep
Their silent buds unfold and turn to green
Row upon silent row they gently lift

Bare branches, no longer in winter’s...

Read more of this work...
Categories: frieze, allusion, art, beauty, green,
Form: Curtal Sonnet
Still Thirteen
a ma lingering effect from angst riddled adolescence 
written some years ago, the psycho social mental events
indelible imprint etched psyche ova this pa on a...

Read more of this work...
Categories: frieze, age, angst, crush, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Symposium
"Symposium"



where do you go 
when you try to 
dream your place

in my life 

gone now 
from your 
quicksand shores

once I rolled over 
placed my mouth...

Read more of this work...
Categories: frieze, love, muse,
Form: Free verse
Winter Wonderland
Raindrops, God's tears for His creation,
When frozen, His jewels for decoration.
The hoare frost bedecks the trees,
A wonderland set in a frieze.
Driving out on  wintry...

Read more of this work...
Categories: frieze, beauty, winter,
Form: Couplet
The Commute
I worked for Boeing when I first met Fred
Liked him the instant he called me “brain dead”
We were both part of the same office mob
Both...

Read more of this work...
Categories: frieze, friendship, car, , cute,
Form: Quatrain
Ban Assault Weapons In 2017 - Part2
This epidemic re: murderous love affair perfervid
with gruesome morbid 
fixation allowing, enabling and providing terrifying 
   trappings, whence Pandora out the lid
anger loosed...

Read more of this work...
Categories: frieze, addiction, body, cry, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs