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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


Premium Member A Poets Abode
A 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



Premium Member Hello Butterfly
hello                      hello
butterfly  ...

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Categories: photo, beautiful, color, imagery, insect,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member A Poem For My Algebra Teacher
I 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member Winsome Wisteria Sonnet
Winsome 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



Premium Member Escape of the Bluesman's Song
Within 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
Premium Member Sunrise Meditation
Stop 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
Premium Member Spring Flowers
Spring 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
Premium Member Emergent
And 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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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: photo, beauty, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Book of Her Body
I 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
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...

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Categories: photo, confidence, courage, dream, future,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Today I Learn To Be a Widow, Lesson 1
lesson 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
Premium Member Held Aloft
We'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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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: photo, heartbreak,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Shedding Trees of Autumn
I'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
Premium Member 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

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