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Best Iconography Poems

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


Cultural Events
Art Gallery. Museum. Parks. Zoo.
Cultural Events.
Glazed like raku pottery
In charcoal rainbows warbled all dark
On pidgeon necks
Like hell’s angels, dumbed,
Blowing smoke through your mind
In a haze...

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Categories: iconography, urbancity, drug,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sonnet For the Souls of Saints
Remarkable people, leave their mark, on this forlorn world.
The name for them, we hold quite dear, they are known as saints.
We so revere, these folks...

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Categories: iconography, inspiration, poems, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member As We Imagine Gods, Venus and Mars
As We Once Imagined The Gods, Venus And Mars

    Universe eternally unending
    expanding space infinity sending,
   ...

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Categories: iconography, art, creation, humanity, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Variations On a Harmonictheme
Children are Fundamentalists

Children are literalists,
fundamentalists.

When they hear
“You’re filthy and you stink!”
the younger they are,
the less likely to hear as a mature adult might,
“You have a...

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Categories: iconography, health, love, peace, philosophy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Motif Crosses—iconic Blast
Milieu iconography with flashing lights
Smokey gambling rooms—gang wars
Flashy suits and fedora hats in the fights
Neon signs flashing—this world is yours

Hey, get a name with the...

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Categories: iconography, adventure, history, life, mystery,
Form: Free verse



Wedded To the Past
The iconography of childhood gives more vivid memories,
like an inward looking that draws to depth and human connections;
those relationships with family members, friends, and relations
the...

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Categories: iconography, faith, imagination, introspection, life,
Form: Narrative
Unifying Theories of Light ( Slight Re-Write)
Unifying Theories of Light

A waveform particle
Photon phantoms of packets
Indivisible 
Oceanic cosmos dusts the material
Separates its contact
By the touch
Of the physical

Human sight by synaptic
Records sunrisen hue...

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Categories: iconography, love, mystery, nature, science,
Form: Free verse
Chasing Sleepless
Tiredly here I heave
My weary tortoise head 
Over the pillow
Ready again, 
Not sleepy....
I am
delicate air, 
catalyst for
Alchemy 
At the turn of clocks
I wonder, 
Breath calls
And...

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Categories: iconography, dream, imagery, night, sleep,
Form: Free verse
In the Wake of Tragedy (London: 07/07/05)
The event of tragedy blossomed,
That carnivorous wave of terror,
Caromed through the capital,
Down subways and thoroughfares,
Horrified the gaping senses
And surged through the echoing chasms,
The divides of...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: iconography, angst, death, history, loss,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member My Elfin Krishna
I have no idea how to teach this cute little guy, 
       who has no clue what sound does...

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Categories: iconography, childhood, nature,
Form: Narrative
Wedded To the Past
Wedded to the past

The iconography of childhood gives more vivid memories,
like an inward looking that draws to depth and human connections;
those relationships with family members,...

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Categories: iconography, inspirationalme, heart, heart, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Last Rose
glanced at one last rose in my garden!           
            ...

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Categories: iconography, garden, nature, rose,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Pious Pelican
Myth of the peculiar pelican
Whose bill bloodies its feathery breast
Feeding blood to the chicks in its nest
Ancient acts ever evangelic
Sole sacrifice for the pelican
Whose beak...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: iconography, bird, christian, religious, symbolism,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Woman: Waterbearer
Fascinating,
this multicultural shift from monotheistic "feminist"
to compassionate "womanist".

Not an either-or, competitive shift,
typically left-brain dominant;
But a more complementary
cooperative
reciprocal
dipolar contrast
between ecological feminists
and theologically polypathic womanists,
reconnecting secular-sacred iconography
for...

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Categories: iconography, caregiving, health, integrity, wisdom,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Iconographic a Freed Verse
ICONOGRAPHY
optical
  overlays
tangible
in
metabolic
  manifestation
of conscious
significance
refined
in
the bizarre
 appendage
of
allusion
to
  the infinite
appearance
of simularities
  situated
alongside
the aspects
of exaggeration
sequenced
&self contained
in
iconography...

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Categories: iconography, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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