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Best Mimetic Poems

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


Alternative Ego
Mimetic kinetic imagery
of a blossoming Aprylic Me
riding a white spring
at three o”clock in the morning,
lucid hours on a yellow line
so far in Monday”s emptiness.
He”s calling,...

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Categories: mimetic, april, halloween, miracle, mirror,
Form: Burlesque



Beckleigh -For Lenny
He heard the crows, 

morning-cawing-crows,

morning-language-cawing-crows. 

There was for him, 

always, uncertainty in the cawing, 

an uncertainty he couldn’t hear,

though he tried for most of his...

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Categories: mimetic, animals, childhood, imagination, nature
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sycamore Memories-Win
"To hold as 'twere, the mirror up to nature. " William Shakespeare," Hamlet 1601."


Window covered by a sycamore tree
Constant friend of my snowy Maple days
Memories...

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Categories: mimetic, inspiration, nature, tree,
Form: Sonnet
Rochester Discourse - Federick Douglas
Wind, word, sail
The helm is turned
On the oar of the tongue
Against the tide of laws
The righteous cause
Will its litany and prevail
O could the dock
Materialize again
Out...

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Categories: mimetic, black african american, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Retrograde Ruminations
I
of
warped words
& soundless mind
out of mindless sight
no(some)where
blurring into
the No-Go Realm
(chasing cunning
cryptic clouds
of thoughtcrimes)

I touch
no man's land
out never
where I'm supposed
to be or
not begin

I am there
not here
catastrophically
contemplating
caricatures
of...

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Categories: mimetic, dark, humorous, nonsense, science
Form: Free verse



Fragrance
A fresh aroma of the winter roses bore upon
The break of the day light, the first ray hold upon
By the droplets beaded over the floral...

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Categories: mimetic, nature, seasonstime, day, time,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Its Spring the Songbirds Do Sing--
IT’S SPRING THE SONGBIRDS DO SING--
                   ...

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Categories: mimetic, analogy, appreciation, bird, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
She Is Real
Without ever consuming
                     bureaucratic butter...

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Categories: mimetic, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Cyclopean Reminiscence
Stashed with programs recorded, which, condensed on universal files
Will tell them very little of what they don’t know and may never know
In this lifetime or...

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Categories: mimetic, 10th grade, allusion, betrayal,
Form: Blitz
The Domain of Psyche
Within the ambit of the psyche  untamed
Is the wonder cavern with hanging thoughts
And projections prompting peevish plots-
Thick and prickly notions oddly framed
Fall about, on...

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Categories: mimetic, psychological,
Form: Lyric
Heart of Kapilavasthu
Mimetic mimicry mimicked the mime.
More than furlong, the entire belonging day long.
Prophet, the proper property, pope prophecy.
Hardhearted harshness tied a fair harness.
Shepherd herding sheep, harder...

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Categories: mimetic, freedom, tribute,
Form: Salaam
Premium Member Rhymes With Pathetic
By nature, zetetic,
he doubted the yetic,
but xenogenetic? That just seemed absurd.
A known workaholic,
scoured feeds from Videtics,
but was unsympathetic, in a word.
At best, theoretic,
and in large...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mimetic, nonsense, silly,
Form: ABC
Rambling
That rambling castle across the landscape bewitched my heart
As though divinity has signed, gorgeous is its art.
Are the cherubims relaxing, spreading out their legs and...

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Categories: mimetic, art, culture, life, technology,
Form: Rhyme
ACROSTIC


Across areA
Cryptics mimetiC
Revolves dooR
Open sO
Stitch iS
Tied fiT
Interfacing radiI
Coupling logistiC...

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Categories: mimetic, art,
Form: Acrostic

Book: Shattered Sighs