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Perception Poems - Poems about Perception

Perception Poems - Examples of all types of poems about perception to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for perception.
Change the narrative
...It’s time to change the narrative Listen to your soul, Take a deep breath in Breathe out and let it go. I know it’s hard to do But let go of all the shame, The finger doesn’t point at you It w......Read the rest...
Categories: perception, anxiety, betrayal, depression,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Raised by Trauma
...My body is an ear. Absorbing whispers meant for others' mouths that only close to wait to shove out more sound. In other directions. Towards another mouth. Mouths who vomit sounds for the ......Read the rest...
Categories: perception, abuse, age, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gabriele Munter, Flowers and Fruit, 1949
...It seems dark, though daisies are open I still see in colour, so I cannot be broken Smears and smudges all left a mark Though daisies are open, it seems dark Held in embrace, are those people s......Read the rest...
Categories: perception, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Rustle of the Mind's Eye
...Step softly into the chamber of dreams, Where reality unravels at the seams. Close your eyes, let your senses unfurl, As imagination begins to whirl. Can you taste the colour of midnight blue? ......Read the rest...
Categories: perception, appreciation, beauty, imagination, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
The War of Perception
...Time fades through the heart of the storm Durations of silence conflicts with violence Who are we to predict the contradiction? One may speak, the other perceives, but who truly believes? Fai......Read the rest...
Categories: perception, conflict, confusion, corruption, deep,
Form: Free verse



If only I did more
...If only I did more then maybe you'll still be here, but now I have to hold the memories of you close to my heart, the memories we once shared. If only I could've done more to change your percept......Read the rest...
Categories: perception, angel, anniversary, death, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the corridors of the modern soul, where echoes of ancient fears still whisper
...In the corridors of the modern soul, where echoes of ancient fears still whisper, We run, we chase, we bury ourselves in the clutter of endless pursuits, Like children caught in the thrall of a wil......Read the rest...
Categories: perception, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Perception Is Deception
...They teach us from a young age that everyone sees the grass as green, but what about the blind and those unable to distinguish colour. So please understand, that the world looks different to dif......Read the rest...
Categories: perception, discrimination, emotions, mental health,
Form: Free verse
The Battered Wife
...I cannot go backwards. I can’t believe in the deception You impersonate so well Smell of flowers Plucked in hell Hugs and kisses when lights are on Yells and broken walls When we are all alon......Read the rest...
Categories: perception, abuse, courage, husband, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Undifferentiated perception
...statue of Buddha we look at it and the space between us the object disappears as do we both becoming one in the void the absolute dissolving all manifestations in its womb returning to fo......Read the rest...
Categories: perception, introspection, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Cry Out
...It doesn’t matter that no one can hear you. Maybe it’s better that way. Would you be honest with prying ears? Leaving no stone unturned, sharing the darkest note of your symphony with a boil......Read the rest...
Categories: perception, confidence, conflict, cry, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Zen mode
...noticing how flawed perception deludes we glide in and out of the flow of life embracing and releasing images mindfully enlivening all by touch in an aspect of joyous playfulness effusing love......Read the rest...
Categories: perception, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Are We?
... The vibrant entity called life, cared and adored, the heart safeguards to display with pride. The life turns into an object, used and ravaged, the transformed being saves the soul sinned. ......Read the rest...
Categories: perception, analogy, life, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eternal Mystery
... Mystic Mystery till beyond human perception, Yet to be solved ! Oblivious. question ' Who are we ?‘ 'Where do we come from ? ' 'Where will we go ?' ......Read the rest...
Categories: perception, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Between Reality and Understanding
...A thought arose... In Hegel's great dialectic cotillion, Time transcends as the Absolute emerges, From deep submersion. Veritably idealistic path to verity. It is all about History! While S......Read the rest...
Categories: perception, introspection, philosophy, psychological, word
Form: Free verse

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