Short Colour Poems

Short Colour Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Colour by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Colour by length and keyword.


Our Lady

the sun dances 
and keeps changing colour - -
our lady smiles

Our Lady of Fatima for Debbie's Visions of Mary contest
© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Senryu


Premium Member Colour Me Love

in my universe
colours swirl
and dance around
where peace unfurls
and love abounds



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Floor Mirrors

Floor Mirrors

The way free standing floor mirrors use colour is 
very close to
the way traffic lights use 
colour.

Frozen Memories

My room has changed
Empty walls are now with life
With my own pictures

My memories returning
Moments in colour and ink
art
Form: Tanka

Life Drawing 1

Beautiful woman
Posing
Can't do her justice
Just want her gesture
Her grace
In a line
In a colour
Her essence
Elusive
© Liz Walsh  Create an image from this poem.
art
Form: Imagism


The Unbearable Beauty In Jent

The unbearable beauty in jent
A colour I claim to invent
With multimedia
And synesthesia
It gives off a smelly sock scent
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Water Colour

streaks as autumn bleeds
the leaves painted on sidewalks~
abstract underfoot 


11/9/2020


5/7/5 how many syllables.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Clerihew Kandinsky

Goethe had a colour theory
in a treatise for all to see
Kandinsky was one thus inspired
abstracted thereby 'til he expired
Form: Clerihew

The Daily Grind

A secretary's daily grind
Resulted in a wet behind
A colleague said,
"Your face is red,
But pheromones are colour-blind!"
Form: Limerick

A Puddle I Saw Once

A bewitching duality,
Neon colours dance atop mirrored puddles, 
Spectacle, iridescent artwork, 
Blemished only by the rain
Form:

Premium Member Fibonacci As An Ekphrasis

re-post inspired by Constance contest

blocks
of
colour
harmony-
form is the content

fibonacci-after Ellesworth Kelly
Form: Fibonacci

Falling For You

Majestic colour
Captures your emerald eyes
Leafs fall to the ground
Your arms wrapped around me tight
Serenity is embraced
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Clerihew Ruskin

England's John Ruskin
a critic when he first did begin
Water colour though was his passion
in this genre he did ever belong
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Clerihew Louis

US born Morris Louis 
with pure colour content to be
Lyrically & on a grand scale
suspend belief..imagination will not fail
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member CONTRYSIDE clerihew

Artist Ivon Hitchens
saw thru an individual lens
Blocks of colour his particular forte
so the countryside he did display
Form: Clerihew

Rose

rose is a colour we call  flower
rosy cheeks thorny stem horny beak
rose is a rose red or yellow
rose or white life is good
Form:

Shapes

Just a small kernel of shapes,
Able to be any size or colour,
Enable you to design anything,
Any image, icon, picture, frame

Premium Member Clerihew Bunting

Northumberland poet Basil Bunting
had the knack to make words sing
His bio colour-filed 'Brigflatts'
always gloss never matt
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Midweek Recitation

Simple symbols of self expression
imagery in intuitive motifs,
a harmony of colour ..inspiration
of moods fused into metaphor
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Imagist Ideas

Simple symbols of self expression
imagery in intuitive motifs,
a harmony of colour ..inspiration
of moods fused into metaphor
Form: Quatrain

Colour the Air Mad

She alone
climbs the precipice
the sword poised
above
delicious desire
torn fingers paint
the moment
colour the air
Mad!

Premium Member another CLERIHEW mondriaan

Peieter Cornelius Mondriaan
son of a Calvinist preacher man
Outlned his geometrics in black
making a colour-filled abstract
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Clerihew Ryan

Minimalist Robert Ryan
so conceptual this particular American
Painting white on white
gave we colour deficients quite a fright
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Autumn dust

riot of colour
autumn leaves adorn the ground ~
there’s beauty in death
life within trees hibernates
resurrection is promised
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Clerihew Jawlensky

Alexi von Jawlensky
 influenced by Matisse to be free
So loved he colour&outline bold
starting to paint when just 35 years old
Form: Clerihew

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