Depicting Poems

Premium MemberThe Creation of Adam the Sistine Chapel By Michelangelo - 1397

...Genesis 1:26-27
26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild ani...
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Categories: depicting, creation,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberIn His Empty Room

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“In my empty heart – only memories” by poet

Today our mother had his bed removed
and took posters down – even things he’d drawn
depicting stuff of which she’d disapproved.
Those p...
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Categories: depicting, brother,
Form: Sonnet


You Did Not Know

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When you were born, you never knew you would expire
Expire because life is never eternal on earth
Earth where people move, stop, sit and proceed

Proceed with others or alone
Alone or with o...
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Categories: depicting, cute love, first love,
Form: Free verse

Beneath the Dunes

...A world that once was. Is no more. Scattered shards of culture, lie dormant beneath its ruins. 
Waiting to be discovered, then discarded by those who would deny.

Future traveler's mingling with t...
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Categories: depicting, creation, education, future,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMelancholy Atomic 1945 , Salvador Dali

...The sky is a Luciferian estuary 
rolling and roaring in crimson flames, 
a twisted design of detonated debris,
like splitting sighs
from internal implosions,
raining fragments of the past:
matc...
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Categories: depicting, dark, emotions, gothic,
Form: Ekphrasis


Falling for the Whole of Me

...If I made ends meet by meeting millions of millionaires in meetings galore,
would you care to explore my heart?
If I made up my mind to resign, and spend my time at a diner,
behind the scenes,
wo...
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Categories: depicting, emotions, feelings, how i
Form: Spoken Word

FRACTURED SOUL

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I was primed to nuture your soul until the end,
Seeking to be your endless passion but most importantly, your best friend.
A bliss with no expectations, conditions or boundaries,
The blazing e...
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Categories: depicting, deep, heartbroken, sad,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe View from the Window

...Like a picture frame encasing the beauty of the ocean,
the moving curtains wafted by the breeze,
the waters sparkle and blue skies enhance the view.

We found a piece of paradise in this haven of...
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Categories: depicting, beautiful,
Form: Free verse

Dear Donald

...The sky paints you,
On the day that you died,
And left me with grief so blue.
And I cried and cried and cried. 

The sky is not purple or red.
It's the color of my tears that I shed.
When I lo...
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Categories: depicting, death, death of a
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSerenading Soul

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parched buds
in shriveled sapling
                    desolate
bloom dreams
          in 
desiccated dunes
as the aureate sun 
masks the mirage 
                    chased
taking the sco...
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Categories: depicting, analogy, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPicasso Paradox

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my mind is an abstract vase,
adorned with 
     crystal gold lines~ 
                 from pixelated pearls
homing 
      whimsical wishes
               and 
      blue-rose reve...
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Categories: depicting, i miss you,
Form: Free verse

The movers and Shakespearers

...No comfort for the stickler, sticking literary fixtures depicting conflicting inklings to their minds as perfect pictures.
With one stroke of my pen the standards rose again and damned be lesser men...
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Categories: depicting, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIt is already much latter than we think it is part six Q and A

...Q:  What did some contemporary prophets see in their visions and dreams?

A:  Enemy drones, planes and paratroopers, tanks and soldiers most often
     in New York City.  They have seen the nukes ...
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Categories: depicting, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberArmageddon

...Turned on the TV to see what they'd say
There's crowds in the streets all around the UK
Shelves being ransacked at Tesco all day
It's happening too in the U S of A

My TV depicting an end, clear...
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Categories: depicting, christmas, war,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTo Whom It May Concern

...O those ignorant of the path to God
don't carry on about less than a dog.
There’s so much to be gained in youth
so get yourself interested in the truth.

If some stranger were to say to you
cer...
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Categories: depicting, angst, faith, god, life,
Form: Rhyme

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