Open Door PolicyHi sweet lady, do you know?
If you do please tell me so
Once a year, is that too much?
Those words from you are like a touch
Of velvet fingers, soft on skin
My door is open do come in
Take my heart, I want you to
Uno, you know, ILU
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Categories:
i love you, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Whispers of the Passing DaysThe days drift softly, like leaves on a stream,
Fading whispers in a fleeting dream.
Sunrise paints the sky in hues of gold,
As time’s gentle hand unfolds stories untold.
Morning glimmers with promise anew,
Afternoon blooms in colors true,
Evening whispers in violet hue,
Marking the world’s eternal view.
Mountains stand in silent grace,
Forests dance in nature’s embrace,
Oceans sing with endless grace,
A...
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Categories:
10th grade, color, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Hiku Shepherd's DelightFuchsia flames the sky,
burnt orange b l e e d s into jade—
fields sigh, soft with dusk...
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Categories:
beauty, color, environment, imagery,
Form: Haiku
FaithTake it
And
Feed it tears shed in a lion's embrace
After
Bathe it in light bred in an empty tomb
Then
Swaddle it in crimson wool, laced with a lamb's blood
And
Tell it tales of swords made into pruning hooks
While
Singing lullabies of eagles' wings in winter, and mother hen's in spring
Then
Kiss it goodnight
And
Wish it dreams of lotus...
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Categories:
christian, faith, imagery, religion,
Form: Free verse
Beyond the Cemetery Gate
Withering weeping willows
shade wrought-iron gates,
creaking in the midst of a cool mid-autumn gale.
Starless, charcoal skies loom above,
as birdsong of nightingales drifts through the evening.
Coming upon a worn, dirt-laden path,
frost-burnt grass lines the edges,
beckoning me to mourning’s sorrow.
Marble statues of angels, frozen in prayer, greet me.
falling to my knees, I brush the crisp leaves from your...
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Categories:
imagery, death, gothic, grave, grief,
Form: Free verse
arteries of night hiku
Categories:
earth, imagery, muse,
Form: Haiku
SunriseI think the sun rises not from the east—
but from your stomach
Nor does it sink from the west—
but returns to your stomach
When I touched it I truly understood the work of art that God created...
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Categories:
imagery, allah, beauty, eulogy, happiness,
Form: Free verse
IN LIFE'S CULTIVATIONA rose and its thorns,
Mirroring the life survived:
Pain and God’s healing:-
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Categories:
allegory, analogy, encouraging, imagery,
Form: Haiku
IN THE GARDEN OF GRACEBlossoming onwards
Know you’re worthy of success;
God…navigating…
Like flowers of spring,
Your destiny is assured;
God…cultivating…
Plow onwards in faith,
Rowing towards your greatness;
God…fertilizing…
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Categories:
imagery, allegory, extended metaphor, high
Form: Haiku
Categories:
beautiful, earth, imagery, ocean,
Form: Haiku
hiku
Categories:
angst, fire, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Haiku
Return My Tearsfor : Choose a line 2
Sponsor : Joseph May
prompt: “The darkened sky stole my tears”
submission date : 27/5/25
Placed : 4th : multiple
RETURN MY TEARS
The darkened sky stole my tears
soprano crystalline they quickly disappeared
Lucy my name still neat to tweet, though
inner ocean could no longer drip sighs sweet
desert dry...
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Categories:
imagery, allegory, allusion, character, color,
Form: Rhyme
XemidoofnacA heron watched me
from painted rushes,
brush-stroked by a man
who lived in a wagon
lacquered with stars
and road-dust and wind,
who sometimes drank too much
and thundered.
They say he wandered for years,
trading canvases for bread,
for gas, for silence—
until his heart gave out
beneath a turquoise sky.
His wagon still sat out back,
faded scallops of red and...
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Categories:
art, bird, imagery, in
Form: Free verse
To bloom in Thee II: Onyx Rose in Bloom Shall I compare thee to an onyx rose?
Too dark for day, too ripe, yet not to rot—
Thou bloom’st where sacred streamlets gently flow,
Where dryads sigh and phantoms sing distraught.
Twin serpents writhe along thy moonlit spine,
Their glistened tongues sing out a breathless psalm;
Your breath the zephyr through the cypress pine,
A storm of touch disguised in...
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Categories:
imagery, appreciation, dedication, devotion, emotions,
Form: Sonnet
To Bloom in Thee I: Pagan Muse PsalmShall I compare thee to an onyx rose?
Thy thorns draw blood as softly as thy lips,
A bloom that drinks the night where moonlight flows,
With shadow wine which this mortal sips with willing lips.
By torch of bone and ash of laurel leaf,
We tread the path where triple faces leer,
Twin serpents coil beneath thy midnight sleeves,
And stir...
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Categories:
imagery, appreciation, beautiful, dedication, devotion,
Form: Sonnet
Specific Types of Imagery Poems
Definition | What is Imagery in Poetry?