Get Your Premium Membership

Best Out Of Focus Poems

Below are the all-time best Out Of Focus poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of out of focus poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Wind From the Sea
Inspired by Andrew Wyeth Watercolor Painting -- Wind From the Sea, 1947




Standing in the old house
A strange mixture of feelings erupt within me
My roommates Depression,...

Read more of this work...
Categories: out of focus, conflict, depression, forgiveness, hope,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Space and Time
Entering the doorway through my heart
Following the nuance of space
Allowing expansion ~ mystery ~ and curiosity
To guide me into realms of spiritual awakening
Journeying through moments...

Read more of this work...
Categories: out of focus, appreciation, beauty, blessing, environment,
Form: Free verse
One Silent Word
He speaks with measured dignity,
one silent word at a time
His palmetto pen tells us: 
Tune out the cosmic background noise,
and focus your mind
on the sound...

Read more of this work...
Categories: out of focus, how i feel, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mind Dance
Mind Dance

I hear you calling me
I feel you on the wind
Playing with my hair
Grazing my cheek
With kiss’s shadow

Upon your distant shores
Perched on craggy rocks
Upon sunlit...

Read more of this work...
Categories: out of focus, appreciation, beauty, bird, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dream Big
Set your sights high
Follow what your heart desires
There’s nothing you can’t do

With your deepest breath
Take in the universe
There’s nothing you can’t do

Dream your dream in...

Read more of this work...
Categories: out of focus, confidence, courage, dream, future,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member A Flower Blooms
While traveling ‘cross such harsh terrain 
     left parched and barren from the sun 
   and weeks without a...

Read more of this work...
Categories: out of focus, beauty, flower, inspiration,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Folly of Autumn's Fog
               A coloratura rises 
      ...

Read more of this work...
Categories: out of focus, age, autumn, life, nature,
Form: Free verse
Anxiety
This is what it feels like to have your heart racing 
and not knowing when or if it will ever slow down.
Your fatigued body can...

Read more of this work...
Categories: out of focus, anxiety, slam,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hush the Stars
“Look up at the stars,” you say
Its just another night up on the old water tank
Our blanket is spread and here we sit with the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: out of focus, passion, universe,
Form: Epic
Premium Member A Mountain From a Pile
How far do the ripples spread, when eventually we die 
Probably stay in the locality, level off, no major outcry
But let’s say we’re famous, suffering...

Read more of this work...
Categories: out of focus, allusion, corruption, prejudice, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Morris the Thesaurus Tortoise
Ocie the Ocelot liked words a lot!
As a tot, words like dot and trot hit the spot
Then, getting older, the folder on her shoulder grew...

Read more of this work...
Categories: out of focus, children, humor, words,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member My Heart Is Full
Life once was a journey through springs
And vistas of autumns in colors bold,
In splendor of morn rising on arc
And motifs on horizon sprinkled in gold;

But...

Read more of this work...
Categories: out of focus, heart, hope, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Tempest, Painting by Michael Cheval
You pull me from the depths of forevers of thought
elegantly twirled, though evidently caught
shaped by the vortex, virtuoso of pain
fluctuating truths from half flailing to...

Read more of this work...
Categories: out of focus, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Mirror, Lie To Me
I stare at my mirror
So shocked by what I see
There is a strange woman
Staring right back at me

I must’ve been abducted
This must be a crazy...

Read more of this work...
Categories: out of focus, me, pain, satire, time,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Slow Hand - An Erotic Romance
Walking past each other and just by chance
My heart skips a beat and my knees turn weak
Your eyes lock with mine in a fleeting glance
In...

Read more of this work...
Categories: out of focus, lost love, lust, romance,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things