Shape Poems | Examples

Premium MemberLife Together-Day Trip

Latter life is special. Blessings come when visiting a parent. They are not a burden - those who raised you up, if indeed you had a good one.
My Dad is almost 88 and I am thankful he is still here. He loves his kids to visit, a good meal and is always thankful. I am thankful for him and also my husband who is generous to help me load and unload the car and join in with conversation. It has been 4 ½ years of almost weekly visits.
— by Poet



chatting:::cooking:::cleaning
praying:::eating:::clearing
washing:::gathering:::hugging

three
:::
different
:::
highways
:::

home:::sweet:::home
together:::alone:::separate
time:::goes so:::fast
Categories: life, together, travel,
Form: Shape

Witty Combination

Okra and ripe apple 
Cucumber and tomato
Sweet potato and ripe pear
Banana with honey and mango
Pungent, white radish, and muskmelon
Categories: allegory, analogy,
Form: Shape


newspaper business has brought us far


newspaper business has brought us far
to these territories where desert rivers
descend from    huge clouds cultivated
but we live on        twisted lips to build
something for              those coming in
oh you who love                   this place
by the tourist book                 is a man
who loves a woman                         by  
a guidebook of sex positions          now
Categories: body, business, care, career,
Form: Shape

I can't be












I can’t be
 sharing 
 my body  
 with you  
 who’s now a shallow pool 
 though the room is offices
 I can hear them panting now
   his saliva wet every bedsheet
he’s your boss
          your CEO
            I’m quite 
             resistant
           to reform
          proposals
Categories: adventure, age, allusion, anger,
Form: Shape

I’m a dumb rooster’s beak

I’m a dumb rooster’s beak
 pecking broken chunks of cheese
                             from every event
every moment is astonishment
                    and if I climb a roof
                 only left in the ruins
             you’ll see my people
          behind the sunlit bar
      but my next neigbhour
   who’s coming in
  is a thief and the new label
on the beer we serve
I’m engaging him before
this place is bombarded 
with that machine dogs
Categories: allegory, allusion, analogy, anger,
Form: Shape


you have something to tell me





you have something to tell me
                          before afterglow
because I have a man’s feelings
           you can’t buy it from me
that even they can’t hear
you will find me
     still emerging
     from a seed husk
      in the throes of 
           a street war
           I want to hear
Categories: anger, angst, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Shape

watch my wristwatch

watch my wristwatch
      and what time is it
     I cannot not tell you
though this is partly sunny
each laughter from the room
                    is that document
                     in a time of war
the evidence is happiness
we are deaf near the wall
Categories: anxiety, appreciation, conflict, confusion,
Form: Shape

all directions from the same place



all directions from the same place 
don’t lead to the same place
  that’s why you’re a butterfly
     and I, a moth, but one family
         the abandoned lawn
            but I care about you
        you need to know your battles
   and how to choose your directions
Categories: anxiety, appreciation, care, career,
Form: Shape

there's no true lovers

there’s no true lovers
but just lovers who never change
               so at this party morning
                     we create a situation 
and you join us for the wedding
            I just want to hold closer
                I just want to whisper 
                              a song to you
                                I’m finding
                         a strange way
                      to love people












all directions from the same place 
don’t lead to the same place
  that’s why you’re a butterfly
     and I, a moth, but one family
         the abandoned lawn
            but I care about you
        you need to know your battles
   and how to choose your directions
Categories: boat, care, change, clothes,
Form: Shape

party morning

               party morning
             and we have ascribed to you
           your inapprehensible walking 
            except by lucky guess between 
               these hedgerows 
          in languages so far distorted
      among dragonflies and flies 
        we are closed distance
          as those houses missing
             after the excavation
Categories: anger, angst, anxiety, art,
Form: Shape

Premium MemberPolarity

 *
*
**
***
joy       and       pain
victory      and       defeat
hope                 and               despair

exist
side
by 
side
and 
interwoven
in to 
the 
same
fabric
of life,
teaching us,
building us,
and
strengthening us.


thus

launching
 
us

higher
 
and

higher

in 
to
loftier
space
Categories: conflict, life,
Form: Shape

Premium MemberBell

Bell

                                     Bell
                                    ringing
                                   through the morning
                              for a special service there 
                            their families, have gathered 
                 for their special wedding day at the church 
               outside of the  church photos are taken
                                      smiling
                                           Joy
Categories: wedding,
Form: Shape

addiction


          II
  II      II------------------------------------------I
  II---- II  drowning body                         |     I----I----I
  II      II                      drowning mind     |     I----I----I----------
  II---- II  drowning soul                          |     I----I----I
  II      II------------------------------------------I
          II
Categories: addiction,
Form: Shape

Broom of life

“Living has yet to be generally recognized as one of the arts” 
- Quote by Karl De Schweinitz 
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               I
               N
               F
               A
               N
               C
               Y
               *
               C
               H
               I
               L
               D
               H
               O
               O
               D
               *
               A
               D
               U
               L
               T
               *
               O
               L
               D
               A
               G
               E
**********************
ETHICAL DILEMMA, GUILT,
COGNITIVE DECLINE, FEAR,
  INSECURE, PREJUDICE,
  VULNERABLE, LONELY,
  DEPENDENCE, REGRET,
  WISE CONTEMPLATION
Categories: age,
Form: Shape

Premium MemberSand Crab

    I                    n.
     l                  a
       ove the oce 
   I sleep in wet sand.
    My biggest fear is
   a child's little hand.
You guessed my secret.
     Don't ever blab.
     Yours, sincerely,
       riendly Sand Cr
     F                      a
   A                         b.
Categories: animal, child,
Form: Shape

Specific Types of Shape Poems

Read wonderful shape poetry on the following sub-topics: animals, christmas, death, dog, family, flowers, food, friends, funny, kids, kindergarten, life, love, music, nature, nursery, school, spring, winter and more.

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