Best Imagism Poems
Below are the all-time best Imagism poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of imagism poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Daughter of the North Wind Sings In SopranoIn riming realms
of crystal contemplations -
frozen water-vapor meditations
and chilled flutes
filled with zodiacal-light musings
of ancient cosmic dust
dancing in the arms of Sol..
windswept...
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Categories:
passion, snow, winter, woman,
Form:
Imagism
Crepe-Myrtle FlowersEventide’s misty winds gently oscillate
Colorful clusters of crepe-myrtle flowers
Crowning atop rows of elegant tree-trunks
Blooms lavender, pink, red, and purple
Hanging in air from tips of twigs...
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Categories:
flower,
Form:
Imagism
Petitioning Spring of TomorrowSmile, O spring, smile, upon crimson arc of morning
Grinning through willows filtering golden sunbeams,
Sparkling from eyes of dew, glinting realms pristine,
Reveling through prairies, giggling tenor...
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Categories:
imagery, spring,
Form:
Imagism
Avian Legos...to the finessed fowl
humming by my ear tell me
Did anyone ever tell you
just how glad they are
to have you here?
Poignant...
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Categories:
animal, appreciation, beautiful, bird,
Form:
Imagism
Somewhere ExoticThe pungence of heartbreak swelters
in the tangled dreadlocks of love-lies-bleeding
Take me somewhere exotic
to breathe not the foul aroma
of disappointment and despair
Show me fields laced with...
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Categories:
color, imagery, lost love,
Form:
Imagism
Night Snownight snow
moccasin silent
drifts downward
landing without feet...
smiles in the sunlight
~ morning curtains peek...
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Categories:
night, silence, snow,
Form:
Imagism
Peacocks and PredatorsThe raptor and the peacock hence,
Sit pensive on a rambling fence.
The first, inclined to be the host,
Jumped down to claim the nearest post.
The pea averse...
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Categories:
animal, identity,
Form:
Imagism
Bouquet of FlowersIn a crystal vase, a flower bouquet I arrayed:
Iris flowers purple, yellow on its outer edge
Interlaced with a layer of tulips burgundy-red
Beholden to support...
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Categories:
flower, love,
Form:
Imagism
Paint a Picture Black and GrayPull out the easel
set the canvas
positioned long and slender clean slate.
Sketch the figures huddled and dark-bound hostage
...
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Categories:
africa, art, dark, grief,
Form:
Imagism
Frolic of SpringI pause for a robin, musing on dogwood pink,
As red cardinal dashes-in, hops, hops, and sits,
Warbling of silken-rose blossoms of peonies
And fragrant white flowers of...
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Categories:
nature, spring,
Form:
Imagism
Swallow Whole the MoonWith mouth open wide
I swallow whole the moon
hoping to feel the tides
deep within the womb
of my feminine side
allow this man to bloom.
Pregnant with ideas
I am...
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Categories:
imagery, nature, poetry,
Form:
Imagism
SeasonsSeasons
With a chill still in the wind, spring arrives
Clutching her white coat that slowly melts
In Sun's warmth, coaxing blossom's birth.
Humidity heavy with the scent of...
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Categories:
autumn, imagery, seasons, spring,
Form:
Imagism
Photographs and PoemsWith my brightened lens, I watch you
mystically zooming in zooming out,
and my eyes focus on the shutter where
a hundred gulls...
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Categories:
art, beauty, film, words,
Form:
Imagism
Escaping Rhymed DetonationMalevolent imploded uncontrollably,
twisting wildly maniacal posies
amid diabolically toasted brainstem,
angst uncompromisingly yanked tresses
purging stinging speech patterned...
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Categories:
allegory, hyperbole, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Imagism
Arouse MeAROUSE ME
Enchant me
Serenade me
Touch me
Raise my temperature
Heighten my senses
Make me tingle all over
Apply your hands to my trembling body
Caress...
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Categories:
love, lust, senses,
Form:
Imagism
Sweet CitrusI kissed July's hot tangerine lips
swam in cool aquamarine eyes
basked in blond and honey rays
dreamed in mango pomegranate sunsets
of lime hillsides and marmalade roses
Years...
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Categories:
fruit, imagery, lost love,
Form:
Imagism
Till My Poems Are, No MoreI bequeath to you my poems,
For words are all I own--
May the images of snow and fall
Bring you comfort when alone.
And I will leave you...
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Categories:
beauty,
Form:
Imagism
ElbbabohcyspThere's a place whence children dwell amid
fairy stories, popcorn rainbows & candied unicorns,
which is fine & dandy except when
you're supposed to be a grown-ass adult,
some...
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Categories:
crazy, humorous, hyperbole,
Form:
Imagism
My Dream VacationSand sparkles like diamonds under my feet.
Sun smiles in blue sky. I watch seagulls fly
while sitting with ease at my beach retreat.
I don’t need palaces...
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Categories:
vacation,
Form:
Imagism
A Resplendence of SunflowersAs brief as summer you swept
across my heart's desert
like a Santa Ana wind's hot caress.
Now the eastern passes
are still as virgin rocks
unto a land whispering...
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Categories:
love, romance, seasons, summer,
Form:
Imagism
Between Shades“Alive,” she said,
“and becoming such a beautifully-
painted picture.”
Where-in you walk wispy
(She said)
through the moon’s light
shinning on the branches
of leafless trees.
Then tomorrow shakes his tired...
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Categories:
angst, nostalgia, sad,
Form:
Imagism
One Wishi imagined finding a bottle in the desert sea
all encased with jewels it mystified me
i open up the bottle
and out comes a puff...
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Categories:
fantasy
Form:
Imagism
Blood and CoralDusk seeps lapis
The horizon looms in blood and coral
Crows emerge from peacock plumes
shrieking caws of darkness
wings flap their incessant onyx
Talon wounds of starlight
multiply and...
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Categories:
day, morning,
Form:
Imagism
Teal HarborIdle porcelain boats
are seagulls
floating
on a teal harbor
blond moorings
cast like kelp
Sails stiff
as egrets
glide slowly
toward
a cerulean channel
Atop turtle islands
pastel cottages
are pearls gleaming
on oyster...
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Categories:
beach, bird, boat, ocean,
Form:
Imagism
SardinesThrough the water they glide,
an immense mosaic of millions of silvery fish
on their migratory run,
obeying a call immemorial,
a mystery of aquatic...
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Categories:
fish, imagery, journey, life,
Form:
Imagism