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Best Refractive Poems

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


Premium Member The Guise of Blue Jay Skies
F  l  y  i  n  g

a sailing tailwind
in cerulean streams
through creamsicle colored beams -
are wings reflective of turquoise truth 
and...

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Categories: refractive, autumn, bird, blue, conflict,
Form: Free verse



Mastered Puppets
Mastered Puppets


Of the voices thrown and never shown their cries travel well
A starving sewn with a bitter bone of their life a quiet quell
With larval...

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Categories: refractive, children, humanity, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Healthy Politics As Unusual
Creolization,
soars Dr. Jane Anna Gordon,
turns our co-empathic evolving democracy project
into a verbal,
active,
regenerative more,
degenerative less,
occasionally Elite-Pirates v NonElite-MultiCultural Prey revolution,
and even more unconsciously occasionally 
Elite/NonElite Creolizing-SelfReGenerative
crave...

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Categories: refractive, beauty, body, community, culture,
Form: Political Verse
In Physics Class
everyday you come in class
it seems you'll say find the refractive index of glass
for me physics is dry 
to make it interesting you always did...

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Categories: refractive, angel, art, autumn, change,
Form: Classicism
Premium Member When We Were Eight
When you were eight years old
waking to another perfect day's dawn
what potential did you
with your autonomic empathy,
integrity of left-deductive
with elder-right-tempered languages,
discover?

Who were you
as you stepped...

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Categories: refractive, adventure, age, culture, home,
Form: Free verse



Bending Light
When young, in playing out one day
a swinging stick got in my way,
it crushed my eye into my head
another inch and I’d be dead.

Back in...

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Categories: refractive, anxiety, introspection, moving on,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Strikingly Naked
Strikingly Naked
                By Odin Roark

Voicing the reflection one sees insures
the...

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© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: refractive, truth, vanity,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Perceptions What Will the Story Be
Perceptions
What will the story be ?

Into the mysteries of the observing mind
one has to ponder, wonder just what kind
of tales, stories, beliefs will we see...

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Categories: refractive, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Transfixed
When you stare at a full moon,
           does it map a heart distracted?
  ...

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Categories: refractive, beauty, emotions, feelings, friendship
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Green Indigenous Revolution
Dear Green Party, International

I suppose we don't actually have an international Green Party,
or even much of a national Green Party in the U.S.
where our religious...

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Categories: refractive, green, health, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Terrestrial Journals Iii
Walking through this dry parched land feeling as though I were cursed; or blessed?!

Tasting its malignant barren soils and enduring its parallels void empty winds

As...

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Categories: refractive, hope, life, love,
Form: I do not know?
Orange
Orange

This now time is a gift to graft a moment
In the mist,
Or how in the midst of circumstance;
Such volatility brews this even stance to render;
balance...

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© Joe Dinki  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: refractive, devotion, faith, love,
Form: Acrostic
Radioactive Heart
Darkness obscured your danger sign, imperceptible but not benign.
My dreams flowed into a high electric field, our minds taped and concealed--
Your heart was radioactive; all...

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Categories: refractive, lost love, sciencebetrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Rainbows In Her Dimple
jugglers moved in
wiggling their tails
rainbows in her
deep right dimple
edges of her dancing
hair caressing the pink lips
subdued pastal hues
purple marrying green
internally reflected
light of passion
decluttering hidden
sorrows misaligned
refractive...

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Categories: refractive, allusion,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Haven
his lean equine face with dust-brown eyes
defines hardship
a gaunt frame
undernourished 
he squats on city pavement 
there in the crook of his neck and shoulder
 ...

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Categories: refractive, bird, blessing, city, life,
Form: Free verse

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