Best Imagist Poems

an image is the resonant heart-
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Too much noise,beyond ,my mood,brooding
passion,dark-eyed.Summer is over
sorrow is my song,white with dew...

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IMAGIST EKPHRASIS
Wordless lines,indelible impressions
with imagination set free to flower
in the mind’s eye.Images rather than
words remain,colour & space released,
set apart,the extra from the ordinary,
a moment seen and then heard.

Listen to me read this ekphrasis on youtube under name ichthyschiro...

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A POETIC WALK WITH MARIANNE MOORE

Come read and let my voice
take you along a 
syntactical line
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Filling his verse with metaphor
Vers libre,not metre was the core,
He lit the fuse and walked away-
So little did his talent yield,for
He left his light on Flanders Field

Tribute to T E Hulme 1883-1917 initiator/catalyst of the Imagist form...

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re post inspired by Constance contest

Filling his verse with metaphor
Vers libre,not metre was the core,
He lit the fuse and walked away-
So little did his talent yield,for
He left his light on Flanders Field

Tribute to T E Hulme 1883-1917 initiator/catalyst of the Imagist form...

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Simple symbols of self expression
imagery in intuitive motifs,
a harmony of colour ..inspiration
of moods fused into metaphor...

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Filling his verse with metaphor
Vers libre,not metre was the core,
He lit the fuse and walked away-
So little did his talent yield,for
He left his light on Flanders Field

Tribute to T E Hulme 1883-1917 initiator/catalyst of the Imagist form...

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repost inspired by Constance contest

A well travelled lass named Adelaide
Innovative and never staid,
Unmarried,single but no old maid-
A short life,latterly full of pain,
Her epitaph,the American cinquain.

Tribute vignette to Adelaide Crapsey,the creator of the American Cinquain form

and clerihew tribute

An American imagist Adelaide Crapsey
one day, freed me, to...

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A well travelled lass named Adelaide
Innovative and never staid,
Unmarried,single but no old maid-
A short life,latterly full of pain,
Her epitaph,the American cinquain.

Tribute vignette to Adelaide Crapsey,the American creator of the Cinquain form...

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Wallace Stevens 1879-1955

with imagist-poetics once did strive
Enigma in his 'Valley Candle'
helped his poetry to sell well...

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MARRIAGE
so unique,this man
and this woman-
different sides
of the same coin

inspired by William Carlos Williams poem of same title...

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seventeen syllables,
simplicity and spareness-
a haiku,I guess...

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A complex tapestry,an orgy of
audacious colour,beautiful,
true innocence in poses and postures
rough-hewn purged from the mind.

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IMAGE PHRASIS II
Seeds of summer grasses wait quietly
‘neath the snowdrift,osier shoots burst 
forth below a gossamer welt,on a 
hanging thread.Fine dry easterlies flurries
silent as a grave,sunlight flickers through 
tall lifeless trees and falters as shadowed
silhouettes recall sepia memories.A trail 
of nows which echo to a...

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