Best Opera Poems
Below are the all-time best Opera poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of opera poems written by PoetrySoup members
Pink Champagne and Satin Opera Gloves
As wild as unbridled seas,
soft as mist, a spindrift tease.
Night stars swoon and fall from skies;
constellations fill her eyes.
Every leaf stirs in...
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Categories:
opera, beauty, celebration, desire, joy,
Form:
Couplet
Wabi-Sabi
Cars are the wind on the streets
semi-truck wheels shriek thunder,
rain shatters against stone and brick walls
on dusty roads, oak trees fence with twigs—
wushu wooden clatters.
Dreadful...
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Categories:
opera, analogy, appreciation, introspection, nature,
Form:
Free verse
It started with a blank canvas"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."~...
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Categories:
opera, emotions, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
O' ButterflyO' Butterfly, a child, disgraced
Bewitched without a chance
Beguiled, exquisitely endowed. Frail wings held no escape
Such innocence would glaze her eyes, as gossamer might do
He...
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Categories:
opera, butterfly, , western,
Form:
Free verse
Free Verse FeverLove is like a million stars
in an ocean of celestial beings
Shining brighter than all others
I am the moon whose evening pull
reaches out...
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Categories:
opera, love, true love,
Form:
Free verse
PoetryOften I harken back
to a very wise poet,
how “life is but a stage”
of tender moments
splashed and splattered
by fierce jabs of passionate
heated rage
such opera...
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Categories:
opera, art, inspirational, passion, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Caring For My Mother - a Letter To a Loving FriendI sit here alone...wondering...how much longer this...and in hearing
the question a silent icy fear blankets my body...the answer would
come wearing both masks...tragedy...comedy...this is my life....
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Categories:
opera, introspection,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Eulogy In My HeartOut in the middle of a large farmland, I become a girl of old charm and unexpected songs again. Past the flanks where cluttered rows...
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Categories:
opera, beautiful, grandfather, memory, nostalgia,
Form:
Haibun
A Getaway To Ancient VeniceI can still recall the look upon His face
Each thought still makes me go to that enchanting place
The vernal air was floral sweet and honey...
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Categories:
opera, love, passion,
Form:
Prose
One Wondrous NightWith his first touch our galaxy became an orchestra,
I quivered as waves of ecstasy took possession of me,
I felt I was no more in control...
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Categories:
opera, stars,
Form:
Narrative
But, Oh My Fear
His masked face haunts me so
in candlelight
This vision makes the glow...
A mystic sight
And I am drawn to him
In dreams, I find
So like...
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Categories:
opera, music,
Form:
Lyric
When Day Is DoneWhispers of sunset
Carry on wings of evening birds
Rising moon awaits wolfs’ howls
Sundown serenade
...
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Categories:
opera, inspirational
Form:
Free verse
Hidden In the StonesImagine someone watching you
who wants you for his own
Imagine in the catacombs, a secret plan is honed
It echoes with a wounded heart
of someone so alone
He...
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Categories:
opera, art, fantasy, lost love,
Form:
Lyric
We Are Brothers IiiDon’t look at me
As though I am an alien or a stranger,
Don’t let the dagger of antipathy
Fly out of your eyes.
I am your neighbor.
Don’t call...
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Categories:
opera, peace, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Pandora's Temptation
For the third time Pandora stands before the box
Inlaid with jewels ivory and gold
In her hand is the key – she closely examines
Intrigued by its...
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Categories:
opera, desire, hope, love,
Form:
Dramatic Verse