Get Your Premium Membership

Best Point Of Reference Poems

Below are the all-time best Point Of Reference poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of point of reference poems written by PoetrySoup members


A Different Point of Reference
They call it shuffling of the mind
when other eyes are turned;
Other visions call upon the history 
that is their very own, allowing us
to see, to...

Read more of this work...
Categories: point of reference, dedication,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Other Self
( Repost )

Somehow, her eyes expand with the disobedient sky
and there, she senses urchins filling water on the lake
her feet and thighs slide up changing...

Read more of this work...
Categories: point of reference, fantasy, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member LA Sewers
When I was a child in Los Angeles, you could size up groups approaching by watching their movements.

I remember this gang of older kids approaching...

Read more of this work...
Categories: point of reference, abuse, child, child abuse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Coming Home
I’ve been adrift on the sea, a lost soul of ideal inspiration
Tossed asunder amongst realities harsh waves of the incomplete,
A disembarked being, caught at the...

Read more of this work...
© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: point of reference, adventure, boat, emotions, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
An Aphorism About Religion
Many of us search in religion a point of reference that is a spiritual course that direct all of  our life. As if we...

Read more of this work...
Categories: point of reference, religion,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Nostalgia For Meaning
I wonder how to understand
The journey finding the meaning
Of every day mundane living
Perpetual repetitiveness of cycles
That we are stuck in from the 
Moment of our...

Read more of this work...
Categories: point of reference, meaningful, nostalgia, philosophy, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Berliner Divisions
At a glance (glimpse) 

To the average tourist
the wall is (was) the divide
between east and west
Checkpoint Charlie
the obvious choice
point of reference
almost irreverent
in its poignancy

To see...

Read more of this work...
© Uwe Stroh  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: point of reference, angst, appreciation, art, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Haiku
perilous waters….

        first star of evening tide

           ...

Read more of this work...
Categories: point of reference, nature
Form: Haiku
Time
Time
  
Time is a measurement point of reference in our lives
It is measured in hours, minutes and seconds
We are in fact a slave to...

Read more of this work...
Categories: point of reference, people, time,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Dominion
Point of reference never came.
     I waited eons just to see
     The clever end of destiny.

To me...

Read more of this work...
Categories: point of reference, death, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Monorhyme
Sweaty Palms At Sunrise
I feel the turn of fickle stars in my palms,
wrenching their way out,
challenging the ambition of a sinner's grasp.
 
It all falls loose;
sand at the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: point of reference, conflict, confusion, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Caelum Noctis
A sea of seething, frothing sky
Condensed, concluded by the night
No point of reference, and no self
Can lie undrowned in these soul-wells

A faded light
Yet fades from...

Read more of this work...
Categories: point of reference, death, introspection, nature, philosophy,
Form: I do not know?
If You Never
If never your situation has resigned you to expiration
Then professing “What he should have done” is quite the meaningless declaration
So if never you’ve felt the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: point of reference, character, life,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Depths of Perception
How deep into your psyche
do you dare peer?
How far are you willing to go
searching
into the darkest places of your deepest fears?
Are you afraid of being...

Read more of this work...
Categories: point of reference, fear, perspective, psychological, truth,
Form: Free verse
Heart of Our Dreams
the white language of snowfall lay
perfectly still where sunshine once warmed
a shaft of light pierces the evening tide of falling snowflakes
a point of reference for...

Read more of this work...
© Mark Junor  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: point of reference, beautiful, beauty, wind, winter,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs