Best Touchstones Poems
Below are the all-time best Touchstones poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of touchstones poems written by PoetrySoup members
Categories:
touchstones, inspiration, life, words,
Form:
Verse
The Corner StoreThe corner store across the street
Was known for all its cuts of meat
But also it sold milk and bread
And other things you’d need instead.
On Friday...
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Categories:
touchstones, change,
Form:
Rhyme
Rising Above the Frayi read indulgence mid scripted words
breaking all the rules and then some,
what be greater than gutting & swallowing
uttermost concentration of language
critically consummated or otherwise,
communing within...
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Categories:
touchstones, hyperbole, metaphor, muse, poems,
Form:
Alliteration
' My 300 Spartans ... ' ( Or My Scheherazade )To Commemorate My 300th Poem Here On The Soup
300 Solomons
300 Beacons
300 Spartans
300 Martyrs
300 Tales Done
300 Threads Spun
300 Heartsongs
300 Touchstones
300 Scheherazade
Only 700 More, GOD
and Wherever YOU...
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Categories:
touchstones, allegory, devotion, faith, friendship,
Form:
Light Verse
DeborahDeborah: the name I’ve grown into.
I am also called seeker, dreamer, believer, ever hopeful;
For I am all these things.
Helen and John, grandparents extraordinaire,
Their...
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Categories:
touchstones, introspectionme, may, me, integrity,
Form:
Bio
The City Sleeps
Corridors, power, call it what you like
When shadows fall, on this hot June night
These walls, this place, I'm absorbed I wonder why
They, the inflicted, their...
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Categories:
touchstones, history, life, loss, political,
Form:
Quatrain
A Momento Moritime standing stlll
arrested
moments revealed
in stimulations
of the mind
revealed lluminations
of the past yesterdays
becoming today
tomorrow's postponed
memory
past pictures live again
momento mori in hypereality
as monuments
to past existence
from...
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Categories:
touchstones, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Market the Soul
I live in the land of the free
Free to get fat,
free to get poor
Free to be a cable zombie
Don't mind the electronic lobotomy
Don't mind you...
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Categories:
touchstones, allegory, money, perspective, truth,
Form:
Free verse
ConsensualYou left behind touchstones
when I was inventing another zero.
Black and white, sobering transparency
was reclaiming the mandate of dust.
Barefoot lambs were clamouring for ethics
in forbidden land....
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Categories:
touchstones, art
Form:
I do not know?
Search For SelfSEARCH FOR SELF
in anecdote
&discourse
a miracle of illusion
noticeable trends
with
an
emotional outcome
both paramount
& immediate
featured instantly
for the
sake of remembrance
a memoriae in
transient naturalism
with
emotion mirrored
by empathy
this distortion
or connotation
so subjective
clustered
then crystallized
in
distinctive
measures
touchstones
to circle
this imagined
inner life
to
rival
former
occasions
&situations
a
devoted
exegesis
inspired
by familiarity
into
an elevated
synthesis
THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter)...
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Categories:
touchstones, poetry,
Form:
Other
Points of ReferencePOINTS of REFERENCE
reinventing
tradition
on display
undeniably
arresting
at
making waves
defined
in
the contemporary
&epitomises
in
bedecked settings
deliberately
elongated
unresolved
& unravelled
happening
prominence
of
the
touchstones
the
of
the
explicit
both
intense
&passionate
with flashes
of
fixating
on
the
fascinating
composition
of the bespoke
that intersect
astonishingly diverse
& paradoxically
sense
of
the
cool aesthetic
simultaneously
painterly
offsets
the conceptual
elaborate
&
equivalent
NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' &...
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Categories:
touchstones, poetry,
Form:
Other
Categories:
touchstones, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
touchstones, literature, poetry, tribute,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Evocations An EkphrasisEVOCATIONS a still life ekphrasis
time standing
stlll
arrested
moments
revealed
in
stimulations
of
the mind
revealed
illuminations
of
the
past
yesterdays
becoming
today
tomorrow's
postponed
memory
past pictures
live
again
momento
mori
in hypereality
as
monuments
to past
existence
from
shadows
of
transience
sentient
touchstones
in
memorials
of perception
aesthetic
sublimations
of
immersive
spontaneity
with
fascinating
expectations
a visual
of genesis
in
suspended
animation
still distant
now
living
again
NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' &...
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Categories:
touchstones, art,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Couplet Message 4Drama TV
For you and me
Old curtains tell
A tale we dwell
Oil paintings sing
Happy endings
Fantasy speaks
Of inner peaks
Lovely eyes say
More that child's play
Seasons etch deep
Wonders that heap
Words...
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Categories:
touchstones, beauty,
Form:
Couplet