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Best Imagistic Poems

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


2face: An Imagistic Opinion
It has been stated that on judgment day
We may be given not the shape of diamonds,
But of bones.

Plausible now, more than before
In our last days...

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Categories: imagistic, allegory, life, mystery,
Form: Verse



Makita Xi: Imagistic Memories
A hankering feature once she was
Saturated by a plethora of alleviation
along the current she’d sway
Her presence infusing meaning
In elementary shapes
And esoteric hymns
Makita te quiero
Tu eres...

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Categories: imagistic, life, loss, lost love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Welkin - and - the Influences
1. The Welkin
Wind blows / clouds race / vast blue sky
Breeze tugs / trees sway / great green hills
Sun scourged / sand glares / small...

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Categories: imagistic, analogy, nature,
Form: Jueju
Premium Member Three of My Favorites
So many more. Just a sampling of favorites, per contest instructions.
For each poet I have included a sampling of titles in parentheses.

THREE OF MY FAVORITES

Gershon...

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Categories: imagistic, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Circumlocution - Venn Diagram
Poem as depicted here. 
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CIRCUMLOCUTION was inspired by the poem, Him & Her Intersection, by Brian Bilston. In the 2015 Great British Write Off, he...

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Categories: imagistic, math, relationship,
Form: Free verse



Elizabathean Sonnets
petrarchan tradition
love for the 
lady
except the great one
154
three quartrains and a couplet
volta imagistic turn on ninth classic
shakys on thirteenth
iambic pentameter mostly
abab cdcd efef gg
i failed...

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Categories: imagistic, education,
Form: I do not know?
Happy Birthday George Andrew Dunning
would what that be junior? senior? sophomore?

since this brother in law rarely emails, 
     ye may scrunch countenance puzzled, 
 ...

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Categories: imagistic, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Lyric
Cigarette Crayons
Cacophonous were the echoes of yesteryear
In the face of unyielding fear they flourished
Oblivious to their imagistic cataclysm I dwindled
Who had known of such a fate...

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Categories: imagistic, life,
Form: Verse
Aye Writhed With Agony
Aye Writhed With Agony...

Unbeknownst to any
     innocent onlooker, aye
underwent extreme internal
     torture with silent cry
ying whimpers, whence,
...

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Categories: imagistic, 12th grade, desire, i
Form: Free verse
A Snowless Day
The trill of the Nightingale 
Reminded me of sleep—
As my mind began its wandering 
Through a vale of downy sweep.

And I became a Poet,
In my...

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Categories: imagistic, dream, poetry, snow,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Peco Boo Recalcitrant Kilowatt Hour Consumer
How ideal to luxuriate
supposed divine right frill
maximizing climate control
with matter of fact bravado
creature comfort pang to fulfill
consequent flagrant portent

to exercise freewill
beware controlled environment
pays hefty bill
cracking...

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Categories: imagistic, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Clerihew Joyce
Dubliner James Joyce
once had an 'imagistic' voice
Then became so expermental
complex&linguistical...

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Categories: imagistic, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Love Notes
bitmojis parade
Boston to Georgia and back —
imagistic rush

2/19/2020...

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Categories: imagistic, cute love,
Form: Senryu

Book: Reflection on the Important Things