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Picturing Poems - Poems about Picturing

Lookingglass
...Plain bronze frame, warped oval glass, a flea market find, a lead-laced history of light. Gazing into it, he sees a mind picturing - a boy and girl on a park bench, the boy is looking at h......

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Categories: picturing, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The lies they killed us with
...They starved our bodies of love Then complain how our bones shake in fear They strip us of our dignity Then glare at us when we jave nothing to wear They take our souls Then question when the......

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Categories: picturing, discrimination, history, political, prejudice,
Form: Free verse



Wishful Glimpses Through Timeworn Windshields
...I would Wish you The worst But yours Came true First Feels like That red light Gets longer every day Though I can’t Help but stare At the place I last kissed you Count......

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Categories: picturing, break up, imagery, moving
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Snowy Day in April
...It was only a sprig of red berries poking through a mantle of snow. But something in their quiet defiance— so small, so sure, so bold— stopped me in rushing mid-stride, as if beauty had broken ......

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Categories: picturing, beauty, color, nature, snow,
Form: Free verse
Parasitic Perspectives
...Humans is what we are because we have a skill given to us Under a word called metacognition Maybe that feeling of metacognition gives us the opportunity to trust Availing our own thoughts, feeling......

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Categories: picturing, self, world,
Form: Didactic



Hypnotic verse
...There's no horizon left, I was awake and slept.— Moon was aligned with Stars and my own myth. Night reveals the intense love, Which were kept hidden in light.— Dreams felt like a curse, Tur......

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Categories: picturing, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Not so sure about the combo
... I'm caramel, gooey and sometimes saucy. Sweet but sometimes salty. Everybody knows it ~ not sure if you do I'm still figuring out what you are because once I've seen your prickly side I keep......

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Categories: picturing, food, sweet, symbolism, together,
Form: Free verse
Memories of Jessie
... (A lone voice whispers) It's early morning as I stand here in our old bedroom Listening to my old friends the robins, blackbirds, and thrushes The twitterings, tweeting and chirps of wil......

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Categories: picturing, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Taste
...Taste See you doing what you do best, Hopping around, laying on every female chest. I guess you like the rhythm of their heart, Or is it because it feels like art? You said you ha......

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Categories: picturing, absence, break up, crush,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Blues Music
...When I think of the blues music, I’m picturing a man singing while playing his guitar and a liquor bottle nearby to drink. Heartache and sadness cross my mind, when I think of the blue......

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Categories: picturing, music,
Form: Quatern
Lingering Embers of an Abandoned Campsite
...I'm drawing the sun on an empty ceiling But I still bring the clouds in my own way You wanted a goddamn college essay But there was nothing else to say She's the tortured soul in all of us ......

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Categories: picturing, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Memories
...Poem: Memories Poet: Sulamani P. Dukuly Netus N. Nowine, Jr. Sulamani P. Dukuly: I once had a memory and never will I forget I can't stop picturing all of the moments we once had and shared to......

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Categories: picturing, adventure, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
THE LAST MEMORY OF YOU - A CREEPING PAST
...Each memory of you Pays every pain due. A hurt I tried to erase But it's etched in my heart to my last days. It's just like yesterday Picturing how you were held With every emotion propelled ......

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Categories: picturing, allegory, anger, break up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Purple Butterflies and Raindrops on Roses
...Purple Butterflies and Raindrops on Roses Open my eyes. See the window covered in tiny beads of wet. Hear the raindrops on roses that line the building. That isn't right. Why can I hear the soft ......

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Categories: picturing, butterfly, children, evil, loss,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Image of Him
... The Mother Sun no longer embraced me No more adrenaline rush that motivates me to get up Breakfast seems bland, faded colors of rotten apple Unfurled window curtains is the angle that I see U......

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Categories: picturing, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

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