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Best Paintbrush Poems

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


Premium Member His Paintbrush
Sunlight breaks through the trees
Shining against the limbs and leaves
Highlighting the soft hues of emerald
Blended into the golden orange of autumn
Colors that put me at...

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Categories: paintbrush, blessing, god, heaven, inspirational,
Form: Free verse



Her Masterpiece Is Her Story
Her paintbrush is a razor,
Her canvas, her wrists,
"I deserve the pain."
She shrugs and insists.

One day the brush will push down,
And it will cut so deep,
That...

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Categories: paintbrush, abuse, addiction, anger, body,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Portrait
Paint me blue like the sky
rainbow's smile; thunder's cry
clouded curtains rife with rain
till shroud is lanced and bluebirds fly again
     Wistful...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: paintbrush, art, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
The Artist
Stillborn
a mood of aberrant colour
a stain on the Artist’s worlds
a heart pulsating with pain
a wide range of intense ardour
mixed  on a fine palette
and a...

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Categories: paintbrush, art, dedication, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Invisible Colors

About our first parents,
here’s something beautiful to know
Adam was created perfect,
and from out of him, Eve followed
God said to His Son:
You and I, We are...

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Categories: paintbrush, love, spiritual, truth, wisdom,
Form: Free verse



When Love Was Innocent
Sing for me the sweetest song 
of love when life was still so young.
Those tender times and days devoid 
of cares and wants troubling the...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: paintbrush, innocence, love, nostalgia,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The View
THE VIEW 
          (SADLY)

I can't believe he has to be a poet
To tell you how he...

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Categories: paintbrush, addiction, care, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Guardian Angel
My Guardian Angel


My guardian angel, God's gift from above,
   resides in my heart, guiding my mind and soul.
     ...

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Categories: paintbrush, angel, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Her Masterpiece Is Her Story-Part Two
(please read "Her Masterpiece Is Her Story" before reading the second part. It'll make more sense and probably be more enjoyable!)

The girl who has beautiful...

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Categories: paintbrush, dark, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When You Wear a Dirty Shirt
When you wear a dirty shirt,
You're a book getting judged by its cover.
People think you're really poor, or nutty,
Or that you have a menial job.
Or...

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Categories: paintbrush, humor,
Form: Free verse
Suburban Summer
, 
riddles N' rainbows paintbrush the day
summer's heaviness invades
rain circumvents geraniums 
ant's N' azaleas dance through sidewalks 
where tiny green grass creep 'neath weeds 
to...

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Categories: paintbrush, community, emotions, family, june,
Form: Alliteration
I Am Not a Color
I am not a color

I am not a color
not black or white or green
when you look at me 
there’s more yet to be seen

I am...

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© Judy Valko  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: paintbrush, color, feelings,
Form: Light Verse
This Sunset You Gifted Me
I remember a sunset you gifted to me
long ago an afternoon of sun,sky and sea
paintbrush touch changing the sky indigo to pink
golden sun turning soft...

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© Kash Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: paintbrush, nature, sky, sun, ,
Form: Couplet
Outside the Box
She has a flaming spirit 
That could never be confined 
A burning creativity
That makes her daydreams shine

A hope for something better 
Only seen because she...

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Categories: paintbrush, art,
Form: Rhyme
Beholding In Awe and Gratitude Such a Bliss
As I amble along, a trance me shakes

an immense silence, I fear, my tread wakes

A respite from angst in an oasis of rarity

my stroll in...

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Categories: paintbrush, art, beauty, inspiration, joy,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs