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Best Retina Poems

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


Premium Member In the Bed They Make
And when will the tides turn against confident indifference?!

When will humanity cease
To throw cats against curiosity’s silver coated dagger

Another played out song
Another dramatic lyric
Shifting embellished...

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Categories: retina, life, psychological, slam,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I Swear I Want To Die
It’s our second date. 

On our first date we talked until sun rise 
all I wanted to do was to keep looking at you, 
to...

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Categories: retina, i love you,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blue
Cool, they describe you
Yet your energy is vigorous, enduring
Short, compact waves of intense photon packages
Dancing on the retina in steady, fluid rhythm

A clear language of...

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Categories: retina, analogy, blue, color, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Traveling Light
I am a photon
a tiny bundle of energy.
My brothers and I
oscillate in synchronized breath;
as a wave, 
we hurtle
through black  voids,
three hundred thousand kilometers
each second,
a...

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Categories: retina, light, nature, star,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the Place Where I Live
In the place where I live, curtains rise and fall
every day presents a different view,
snapdragons sing with a gifted voice.

A focused sun spotlights,
accentuates
the morning glory of...

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Categories: retina, nature,
Form: Free verse



What a Clot Am I
What A Clot Am I
I sit there just waiting, waiting my turn to move
You’ll never know where I’ll strike; I am on a mission, myself...

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Categories: retina, health,
Form: Verse
Traveling Light
Unburdened by mass,
star born 
photons
hurtle
through vacuum voids.

They reach a planet
where green continents swim 
in blue oceans.
It is night. A woman
looks up at the sky.

The photons...

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Categories: retina, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nocturne In Black and Gold the Falling Rocket By James Mcneill Whistler 1875
eclipsed by a daydream 
    where stars are strung on
            ...

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Categories: retina, beautiful,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Doctor Please Hurry
A bullfrog jumped into my eye socket today.
Pushed my retina aside, and was clearly on his way.
I can feel him jumping around. My sight is...

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Categories: retina, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Komorebi
the answers are here
I feel them, though they don't reach my skin
             ...

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Categories: retina, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Autobiography of Eyes
Hello! We are a pair of eyes,
gifted to a human so nice.
To express our peaceful cries,
a poet, on our behalves, hereby tries.

Above the tongue which...

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Categories: retina, caregiving, education, health, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Caution - Fireworks
E-Z Glo Punk, Lightning Flash,
TNT Devices will burst, do crash
Southern Night, Piccolo Petes
       are hard to beat...

I like hand...

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Categories: retina, beach, color, dark, fire,
Form: Narrative
Go Now, Love
I know you have to leave, so go now, love
I'll be waiting here for you, it's okay-
And missing you doesn't start instantly
Since your presence lingers,...

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Categories: retina, analogy, longing, love, missing
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member So Much Do I Want - Fulfilment of - Desire
SO much do I want  !!!
Of that which  I may never have ???

Upon the retina of these eyes
- burned deep, are the images...

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Categories: retina, love hurts, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Colors of Life
Color, beautiful colors so fair.
Decorates life with beauty, gemstones.
Days without splendor could bring despair.

The human retina, its rods and cones,
Designed to paint man’s world with...

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Categories: retina, people, science, sympathy,
Form: Terza Rima

Book: Reflection on the Important Things