Best Photo Poems
Below are the all-time best Photo poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of photo poems written by PoetrySoup members
A Poets AbodeA Poet’s Abode
A poet’s peaceful abode surpasses bliss
Depicting imagery beheld by eyes.
Dreams revealed go beyond the great abyss
Of space with stars that fill our cobalt...
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Categories:
photo, art, beauty, passion, poetry,
Form:
Sonnet
Categories:
photo, beautiful, color, imagery, insect,
Form:
Concrete
A Poem For My Algebra TeacherI know I promised
no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another
‘Wipe your eye poem’
And for three years
I tried...
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Categories:
photo, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
I Wandered Lonely As a Boat"I wandered lonely as a cloud." William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a boat
a shallow dingy left behind,
alone in marsh...
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Categories:
photo, age, boat, fate, lonely,
Form:
Lyric
Winsome Wisteria SonnetWinsome Wisteria Sonnet
Eden, open your ardent arms to grace
Wisteria's soft lilac petaled blooms
Draped stunningly about Spring’s sunny face
In softest shades of lavender...
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Categories:
photo, beautiful, beauty, flower, spring,
Form:
Sonnet
Escape of the Bluesman's SongWithin the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch a rickety chair
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...
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Categories:
photo, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form:
Free verse
Sunrise MeditationStop in your tracks
Take a deep breath
Stop and relax
Close your eyes
Exhale a slow deep breath
In your mind’s eye
It’s early dawn
It’s quiet and serene around...
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Categories:
photo, freedom, inspirational, introspection, motivation,
Form:
Free verse
Spring FlowersSpring Flowers
Opal open clouds let raindrops freely fall
Coaxing coy blossoms of spring to bloom.
Fragrant sweet scents permeate the air.
Snow drops begin the parade as they...
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Categories:
photo, beautiful, bird, birth, flower,
Form:
Free verse
EmergentAnd yes, she will rise and conquer
She is queen of her own destiny
Her spirit is indomitable
Her eyes aflame with passion
Her warrior heart beats...
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Categories:
photo, beauty, celebration,
Form:
Free verse
The Book of Her BodyI lift you up, delicately
like a bouquet of flames in pink patient fever,
romantically, I rove your surface with fingertips that tingle,
the texture of your treated...
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Categories:
photo, love,
Form:
Ballad
Dream BigSet 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...
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Categories:
photo, confidence, courage, dream, future,
Form:
Lyric
Today I Learn To Be a Widow, Lesson 1lesson one
i wake up alone
for the first time
the silence is deafening
i want to get up
but every fiber in me
is dead weight
i want to call my...
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Categories:
photo, death, loneliness, longing, lost
Form:
Free verse
Held AloftWe'd laid old George to rest the week before,
at ninety-one he now rejoined his wife,
no heirs to his estate, so one thing more
to do, and...
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Categories:
photo, heartbreak,
Form:
Sonnet
The Shedding Trees of AutumnI've heard your whispers
in quiet moments
amongst the shedding trees of Autumn..
I walk alone our wooded path – listening
the air just as crisp as a...
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Categories:
photo, autumn, beauty, death, i
Form:
Free verse
To Find Within*Inspired by photo*
From up above I see
Not what the clouds hide
But delicate blades of grass
Like my fragile emotions
Hanging over the cliff
Waiting to be acknowledged
With a...
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Categories:
photo, beauty, emotions, introspection, nature,
Form:
Free verse