Frieze Poems | Examples

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Premium Member TREE STORY wpc no 4

once
   ever green 
then
  autumn gold 
bedecked 
stark
now 
    in silhouette
aged
gnarled 
   root
laid bare 

mistletoed
 in winter
 frieze
still
   blankets 
me

Premium Member Lupine

WILD LUPINE

 There we will surrender to the breeze
and drift on lupine's purple frieze.
     ~by poet

We were as free as wild lupine
In a mountain meadow in sweetest springtime,
Loving the song of the breeze and the grass,
Dancing to music of sunrise and sunset.

Long seemed the season in blush of young love,
Undying faith in promises made,
Perhaps just a dream of things that could be~
In reality’s venues such dreams can’t abide,
Not for the prince who money must make, in drab market street 
Even a princess has rules!

A Winter's Wish

A wish on this cold Winter's frieze 
A diamond ring Santa, oh please
It was ever so shocking 
What she found in her stocking
A ladder right up to her knees!


Premium Member When Twilight Comes

When twilight comes,
be morn or eve,
a time when cares 
and fears take leave,
when the sun arises,
when the sun does set,
when the trials of the world
have not come yet,
nor will they you beset,
when ferns and flowers
are tender with dew,
when dreams 
that you've dreamt
become alive and new,
when the stir of a breeze
and a rustle in the trees
become as music
to the soul
and the landscape all about
is as a heroic Grecian frieze,
when Time knows no time,
when sorrow has no pain,
when grief is lost forever,
when joy is free to reign
when the heart 
is filled beyond measure
when Love abounds 'til never
then will you see and feel
things more precious
than all the world's 
golden store of treasure.

Premium Member A Little Fire Then

Little fires put out here or there with ease  
There's a big blaze over there with high wind
Contained only by some people you send

Can big blazes be stopped destroying trees
Time, effort with loss of lives and much more
Blazes are definitely not asked for

_Ole days gone with architectural frieze 
Little fires, big blazes slowly take hold
World being lost to evil, hearts turned cold 

Seems world overtaken by swarm of bees
Is there a solution to all questions
Let's make a reasonable suggestion

When Jesus comes, tempter's power broken
And humanity will be awoken

Premium Member Lupines Are In The Meadow

Flowers are the music of the ground, from earth’s lips spoken without sound. ~ Edwin Cerran

Lupines are in the meadow, 
speaking poetry of nature;
the breeze directing purple allegretto
for every forest neighbor.

My love shall we go walking
in golden warmth of summer,
with the flowers softly talking
in notes of every color?

Shall we then lay down and slumber
in the sweet grass and the flower,
where cares do not encumber
and dreams become our bower?

There we will surrender to the breeze
and drift on lupine's purple frieze.


Dawn

The rafters creak
The Fire alarm is delirious
Its 4 AM
all is in a frieze
Intrigued by the night
I unpetal
The Night people dine in-between
Top hats appear
Bell drawn dazzles
You stole my castle
I need to graduate from this dawn

Premium Member Recreations a Freed Verse

RECREATIONS
virtual
sensory experience
 two
   dimensional
glimpses
of
the past
in
mirrored
  shards
of
yesterday
glowing
 & vibrant

elaborate
bedazzled
&profound
interpreted
  anew
in a
frieze
of redemption
of
beauty
ornamented
with
  abandon

Premium Member Enchantment

Enchantment
Enchantment is earth’s garden golden crowned
Where a sanctuary of calm is found
A place where doleful hearts are freed from pain
And sadness turns to happiness again.

Hope, faith and peacefulness gently restored 
In a haven that's much loved and adored
A paradise filled with lavish stardom 
Perceived in splendour of a lush garden.

Expose your heart to the musical strains
Of pitter pattering droplets of rain
Trilling birdsong and the buzzing of bees
Sweet melodies heard o’er whispering breeze.

Magnificent flowers and stately trees
Fluttering butterflies adorn the frieze 
Feathery white clouds that are drifting by
Sunshine embracing exquisite blue sky.

Oh for the joyfulness and enchantment 
In the grandeur of God’s worldwide garden
Grant thanks and praise to our heavenly Lord
There’s so many reasons for our accord.

Premium Member Horizons a Freed Verse

HORIZONS
clear
level &
pivotal
&
holds
a delicate
 light

ascending
in
contrasting
reflections
 enigmatic
surrounding
frieze
stunning
& compelling
 this phenomenal
world
of wonders
treasured

tranquil
traces
of the
sublime
colourfully
adorned
 looking
at
a luminous
sunset
of
fleeting images

Premium Member Clerihew Thorneycroft

Sculptor Thorneycroft Wiliam Hamo
made many a statue 'to go '
He also carved building frieze
so versatile was always at ease

Premium Member A Winter Tease

Snowflakes soft as a Kentucky breeze
Floating down gently in the frigid air
Settling on the barren limbs of trees,
White brush strokes on a winter frieze
A whisp of snow, an old winter tease 
Reminding us of our ski gear to prepare
Snowflakes soft as a Kentucky breeze
Floating down gently in the frigid air.

Written November 18, 2022

Premium Member Ode Against a Grecian Urn

If all you need to ask, "Is beauty truth?"
It isn't much you need to know on earth.
It's less than what appraisers say it's worth,
This jar with frieze depicting frozen youth.

Curators and collectors both agree
If forged or stolen, sold dishonestly
Museum art debased on pedestals
Makes hiding art seem safely tenable.

It may be better beauty be destroyed.
A little worshiper of idols still
Resides inside and ever, always will
Until we're much less worldly employed.

While thirsty an ascetic often thinks
Urns beautiful when everybody drinks.

    (8/29/22)

Premium Member Forest Queen

When trees awaken from their winter sleep
Their silent buds unfold and turn to green
Row upon silent row they gently lift

Bare branches, no longer in winter’s keep
Spring flowers burst from dormant bulbs unseen 
A gift

Wearing her royal robe of blossomed trees
Like a mist descending, this forest queen
Blesses the forest paths with leaves adrift

Paints with an ardent brush her verdure frieze.
So swift



Entered in A BRIAN STRAND PREMIERE CHOICE
Contest Judged:  4/7/2022 1:12:00 AM
Sponsored by: Brian Strand
N/A

Submitted to Writing Challenge - X'd Poems Second Chance Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Constance La France


Curtal Sonnet (Short version)
A curtal Sonnet has eleven lines with a rhyme scheme of abc  abc  dcb  dc
It has ten syllables in lines 1 through 5  and 7 through 10, however 
it has only two (2) syllables in lines 6 and 11, and they rhyme with lines 3, and 8.

Premium Member Sculptural

SCULPTURAL
fusion
 frieze
fine curved
   perceptions
economy of line
to
stimulate
 humdrum  gestures
unrecognized
    pretentious
hysteria
 & shocks
foibles
so explosive

THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two way interplay and often a unique interpretation by the enigma so derived

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