Best Portraying Poems
Innocence Lost
...In the midst of midnight dreams,
like a whisper, soft and subtle,
her soul floated like a butterfly.
Reaching the province of Paphian passion,
portraying Aphrodite's desire for Adon......
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Categories:
portraying, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Timeless adoration
...
“A lover asked his beloved,
Do you love yourself more than you love me?
Beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live for you.
I've disappeared from myself and my attributes,
I am present o......
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Categories:
portraying, love,
Form:
Free verse
Garden of a Wounded Soul
...
Like an ebony rose in a province
of ivory and golden flowers,
you poisoned each peaceful petal
with your senseless scent of death.
You were never just another floret.
Was I a fool to sow yo......
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Categories:
portraying, analogy, angst, forgiveness, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Silent pain behind art
...
The art was most masterful on the dark canvas,
portraying an artist's mind when feeling anxious.
His palette compiled of pastels in shades of grey,
weaved brushstrokes in symphoni......
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Categories:
portraying, angst, anxiety, art,
Form:
Rhyme
Mellifluous Muse
...
In my hunger,
I saw a hallucination of heaven.
From afar, visions of a golden glow,
lustered, lingering above a crowded crossroad.
This aura of agave aromatherapy,
left an amorous aroma of rom......
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Categories:
portraying, assonance, love, romance,
Form:
Alliteration
That was Then, This is Now
...
I once saw a man with kaleidoscopic eyes,
reflecting in hues of periwinkle and persimmon.
His heart illuminated in shades of scarlet,
marigold and clementine,
releasing rainbow ink from his ......
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Categories:
portraying, analogy, perspective,
Form:
Narrative
Song of a Cherokee Princess -
...Cherokee chamber,
where a pow wow stampeedes preconceptions of inheritence,
from Her beaded neck charms of chance & chains of change
glisten from opulent offerings of roots, corn & lavender ablaze
on......
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Categories:
portraying, native american, dance, for
Form:
Romanticism
Salieri Soliloquy
...You give me the desire
a love for composing
word symphonies
yet you give me
the cross of mediocrity
to bear
day by day to know
there are others
who are prodigies
and I must hear
the thun......
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Categories:
portraying, poetry,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Ramayana
...Ramayana, a Hindu epic,
written by saint Valmiki, in Sanskrit
one of the two largest ancient epics,
the first ever poem ever created
many many centuries ago.
It depicts story of Lord Rama
as......
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Categories:
portraying, inspirational,
Form:
Narrative
Making Art With the Universe
...Introspection
suspends in dark blue amnion
as rainwater blooms a reflection pool
an oasis of energy for contemplative embryo;
in stillness I grow.. my pulse a flowing stream of raindrops
my ......
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Categories:
portraying, growth, introspection, love, self,
Form:
Free verse
In Silence
...In Silence
Sighing, gales vibrate, release the dance
Between avid oak in crimson hues -
Delicate golds, amber and carroty red
Maples delicate muse, autumn stillness, hush
Erasing the summer, q......
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Categories:
portraying, appreciation, blessing, christian, creation,
Form:
Free verse
Compose
..."One can speak poetry just by arranging colours well,
just as one can say comforting things in music"
~ Vincent Van Gogh
You sing of beauty ......
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Categories:
portraying, art, music, poetry,
Form:
Couplet
Aura of Rhymes
...
This one goes out to a special poetry souper.
Dedicated to an unknown rhythmic ink trooper.
Her poetic pen is mightier than any sword,
she cares not for attention nor craves to be adored.
Not......
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Categories:
portraying, dedication, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
Mute Masterpiece
...
to capture the true
essence of what lies
behind my eyes
create a palette of
black pastels portraying
the shadow that follows like death
a constant visitor to my d o o r
nobody knows......
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Categories:
portraying, angst, life,
Form:
Free verse
An Interior Mechanism
...
Since childhood,
as alexithymia struck my soul.
I kept all my hopes a secret,
hidden in a bucket of unshared dreams.
I kept my soul sweet like marshmallows,
but life has finally caught up ......
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Categories:
portraying, analogy, emotions, life, perspective,
Form:
Free verse