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Best Polaroid Poems

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


Polaroid
No not the portrait when you were younger, my dear
Just a Polaroid snapshot at the beach that year
No earrings, no make-up, your hair was a...

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Categories: polaroid, sad, wife,
Form: Sonnet



Life In Polaroid
one thing we are never told
pictures taken in polaroid
have a way of fading over time

very much like you and me
and the picture we used to...

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Categories: polaroid, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Vignette Polaroid Kiss
Nostalgic in noon
                      ...

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Categories: polaroid, love, nostalgia, passion,
Form: Haiku
Crushed
Look past
the faded little girl    braids and bows 
in a       polaroid picture
buttery yellow skirt 
curtsying ...

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Categories: polaroid, daughter, death, family, memory,
Form: Free verse
Take Me With You
If you go downtown early morning
You can see the shopkeepers setting
Old treasures on the sidewalk,
Writing their welcomes with chalk
On little standing blackboards,
Inviting you inside their...

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Categories: polaroid, adventure, america, nostalgia, remember,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Remembered
old faded polaroid~
the memory of yesteryear
distant and discolored
snapshot of a past
vague but not forgotten



AP:  Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on March 7, 2020...

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Categories: polaroid, longing, nostalgia, perspective, remember,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Kingfisher
"Look around and see how birds and animals disclose the secrets of self survival and display how their bodies are streamlined to excel in their...

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Categories: polaroid, bird, creation, fishing,
Form: Free verse
What's Dead is Dead
After checking the Sears and Roebuck and Montgomery Wards catalogs until their pages were torn and faded, we took one last look at the sales...

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Categories: polaroid, poetry,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Went Fishin'
Submitted to the "Gone Fishin" contest
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Trollin’ the islands at Texoma,
It was April, 1964.
New rod and reel in hand,
I’d NEVER been fishing before.

A Garcia 2510T casting...

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Categories: polaroid, adventure, april, crazy, fish,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Family Tree
They stand in cottonfields of snowy white
The faded, black and white of my grandparents..
Smiling as though everything were alright.
Cotton sacks hung low down to the...

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Categories: polaroid, family,
Form: Free verse
Two Line Thoughts
Sometimes you must lose all you felt you once needed
But all you ever feel is cheated

You can't pull diamonds from the sky
There is no constellation...

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Categories: polaroid, boyfriend, drink, fruit, garden,
Form: Free verse
Genesis Broad-Spectrum
Genesis Broad-Spectrum

An ethical grey scenery alert
was roused lenses shuttered,
in hues of Red, White and Blue.
Theorem of imagery collision,
flashed old fashioned—PolaROId,
ammunition developed HumanØ1ds.
...

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© Keith Luke  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: polaroid, analogy, imagery, irony, mythology,
Form: Classicism
Premium Member Picture Perfect
My mind slips back and forth in time.
The pendulum drags me on its course.
Are you here with me now, as I swing through yesterday?
I hang...

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Categories: polaroid, confusion, emotions, moving on,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Old Sofa and the Fly On the Wall
That furniture at Grandma’s house has never had a;
Behind, sit down directly on it-
The plastic had duct tape overtop
Where something sharp had pierced a hole
This...

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Categories: polaroid, boyfriend, first love, high
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Just -- Trust Me - 1st Half Text Plus Full Audio
Here's the deal, folks...
   This is, as indicated, the 2nd HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this...

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Categories: polaroid, car, funny, humor,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things