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Best Monocle Poems

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


No Set Future
As I pass through time
in my physical vessel
I connect the rhymes,
balancing them on my mind's trestle.

My consciousness detaches
from emotion and commotion
and intricately latches
onto an outstanding,...

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Categories: monocle, inspirational, introspection, life, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Simple and Pretty
The nose feels always sweet from the steams of the lower order
happiness and contentment fill the pages of their folders
still afford basic needs, though with...

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Categories: monocle, class, community, life, people,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Happy Couple
Why do we have pairs of scissors?
Since that's how they've always been known,
why do we care why we call them a pair
when one is no...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: monocle, humor, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
The silent song of Chester Gray
 
The silent song of Chester Gray, 
a murderous affair 
This quiet soul of little word, 
not known of him to share 
This eve upon...

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Categories: monocle, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
The Red Train
From an aerial view, the sight of a beautiful red train 
chugging along down the railway track 
takes my breath away; 

One moment I am...

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Categories: monocle, appreciation, fantasy, farewell, forgiveness,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Puttin' On the Ritz
A four piece string ensemble competes
with fluted crystal glasses harmonizing
to the tinkling of fine silverware
underpinned by the purring whispers 
of well-to-do's and their hobnobbery.

Buttery lobster...

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Categories: monocle, beauty, celebrity, class, clothes,
Form: Free verse
The Mandela Effect
Have you always thought that something was true
And then find out that it wasn’t then
There are beliefs of the masses found to be untrue
Named after...

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Categories: monocle, perspective,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Gallbladder-Green
My Love, Eve

Your skin glows like the Apple, blossoms eagerly as the rose in the purest hope of spring.
My yearning heart rises to your guitar...

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Categories: monocle, angst,
Form: Free verse
Brotherhood of Man
Watch out, brother,
An eye's following you,
Watching what you do,
Each movement remembered.
Don't cheat,
Don't steal,
Don't breathe too loud,
Someone's sure to find out.
Each flaw, each mistake,
And blow it...

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Categories: monocle, brother, educationmen,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Black Snow
1. A dangerous vision coveting another,
blurred by envy to need a mental monocle.
she burns in such deadly blast
not to realize the soul already promulgate itself
to...

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Categories: monocle, anger, anxiety, dark, evil,
Form: Lyric
Yelling Through Pinecones
i watch the sunrise
unbuttoning the stuffed pouches
of thunderclouds

soaking
imagination
with dry-drunk dewdrops
becoming bubbles
blown through
ringbarked
jewelry

worn 
by the roots 
of rhinestone rapids
growing in
spider
webs

trying to catch
a flying_fox

there has always 
been...

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Categories: monocle, angel, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Wrong
A lap dancing molecule is dressed in a monocle. Such dainty prowess but naked no dress. No suit could taste an acrylic sheet as sheer...

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Categories: monocle, art,
Form: I do not know?
Jif Is a Terrorist! Skippy Was Only a Patsy!
-In 2008, a massive recall of peanuts thought to be contaminated with bacteria occured. Not 
very many people became ill, and only twenty percent of...

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Categories: monocle, health
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Purse
Sometimes people ask me... What's in your purse...
So I tell them the best that I can...
Lipstick, chapstick, matchstick
What’s in your purse?
Billfold, change purse, money counter,...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: monocle, beautiful, best friend, butterfly,
Form: Free verse
A Night With a Knight
I dreamt of a monocle night.
I saw; I was sitting upright.
As usual, the earth’s lamp was bright.
There-by unveiling some ants in fight. 
I saw a...

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Categories: monocle, imagination,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs