Short Optical Poems

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Helios Graphein

Messages by sunlight Light reflection, optical Communication http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/science.php
Categories: optical, history, science
Form: Senryu


Mirror, Mirror -

Mirror mirror on the wall,
why are all my clothes too small?
Please mask my cellulite and fat profusion,
with the magic of optical delusion.
Categories: optical, beauty, clothes, funny, humorous,
Form: Light Verse

May I Have This Dance

eye of beholder
gets optical illusion of
moon and water's dance



Tribute To Beauty


Also Entry For
Raul Moreno's
Reflections Contest
Gl All
Categories: optical, dedication, fantasy, imagination, inspirational, nature, science, sea,
Form: Haiku

Optical Illusion

Sunrays dance on waves
                                       playful dolphins leap and dive 
                                            Shattering prisms.
Categories: optical, sea,
Form: Haiku

Love Starved

Matted, framed, feathered and tarred
On display, I am permanently scarred.
No misunderstanding or optical illusion
My gallery heart begs for love’s intrusion.
Categories: optical, lost love, love, sad,
Form: Free verse


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Oasis

Overwhelmed by dire thirst
Oppressed without water
Over the next sand dune
Offered in a vision
Optical illusions
Outcrops of tall date palms
Oasis; a mirage
© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: optical, endurance, water,
Form: Pleiades
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surface tensions

pour enough shoe polish into a river ~ stepping stones may appear 

optical illusions yes ~ scratch at the surface find man’s true veneer

By 
David Kavanagh
Categories: optical, perspective, pollution, river,
Form: Monoku

First Love At Last Sight

chaos in her eyes
or optical illusion...
first love at last sight





1st June 2019
Sponsor	Dear Heart
Contest Name:Writing Challenge 5, May 2019, Senryu
Categories: optical, lost love,
Form: Senryu

Pseudo-Expressionless

pseudo-expression's
      of ragged diamonds
  a fugazi sans brilliance,
  shiner midst vague skies 
           in the optical jags of
       practical indifference
© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: optical, allegory, muse, satire,
Form: Free verse
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Merry Me

Suddenly seeing imageries in the shed's wooden planks,
As though my own mind is playing optical illusional pranks,
Finally have found the right high that hits me like heavy tanks.
Categories: optical, addiction, crazy, drug, mental illness, nonsense, psychological,
Form: Sijo
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Optical Illusion

Duped by overwhelming desire

perception ends in disillusion.


[Image 1]

-------------------------
Crystal Clear Contest 
Hosted by Joseph May
Placed 3rd
© 1st May 2019
Categories: optical, image,
Form: Crystalline
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I'Ll Tell You a Secret

At best, life is just mass confusion
Finding what's real and what's just an illusion
Speak of politics.  Do I dare?
When finding the truth is so rare.
Because politicians are just an optical illusion!
© Tom Larrow  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: optical, funny, political, satire,
Form: Limerick
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'I'm the Queen of France'

    A room full of optical illusions
    Hypnotized Sue, who shared her delusions

      Screaming ‘I’m the Queen of France’
      Clothed only in underpants

    Revealing her twin buxom protrusions
Categories: optical, clothes, giggle, mental health, sexy,
Form: Limerick

Not Only Was He

Not Only Was He

Not Only Was He an optical illusion 
On our whole life was an intrusion
We wish he had never been here
One day would completely disappear 
Into the form of a distant delusion.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: optical, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

Angst

Could this infused intrusion

 Just be an Optical Illusion?

What goes up must come down.

The people are dragged all around.

What would the Bible say;

Take the time ; Search today!


McCuen 2008
© Mc Mc  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: optical, faith, hope, introspection, life, nature, people, political,
Form: Free verse

Two Mirrors

MIRROR I
    In the mirror, ask for advice,
    as if the reality of life,
    were on the other side ...
   

      MIRROR II
    In the land of mirrors,
    ask for advice,
    it's optical illusion ...!
Categories: optical, allegory, allusion, extended metaphor, fantasy, imagery, philosophy,
Form: Epigram
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Zebra

The zebra:
An optical illusion
That tricks your sight,
Not colour, not HD ready,
But just in black and white.

An African sales success,
Of great pride it’s the source,
Cleverly marketed as …
A bar-coded horse.
Categories: optical, africa, animal, fun, funny, humor, word play,
Form: Rhyme

Dream

D- Daring to go where you have never been before, 
R- Reality with a hand of perspective well worn, 
E-  Every optical of ones own illussion, 
A- All thing of you your subconcious, 
M- Marking it's way to your every day
Categories: optical, adventure, faith, friendship, growing up, happiness, passion,
Form: I do not know?
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Not Quite a Rainbow

Fire rainbow, misnamed. Circumhorizontal arc Is an optical Phenomenon, an Ice halo formed by plate shaped Ice crystals in high Level cirrus clouds. Circumhorizon arc is It's other cool name http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/nature-5.php
Categories: optical, nature
Form: Haiku
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SIN-RYU

A sh**load of sparrows
Dancing on the wires
Spots on my truck


A howling of leashes
Domesticated torture
A cat hisses


A cacophony of phrases
A drumming of woodpeckers
Shouting – quiet please


Unopened flowers
A menagerie of metaphor
Optical conclusions
Categories: optical, fun, word play,
Form: Senryu
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Iconographic a Freed Verse

ICONOGRAPHY
optical
  overlays
tangible
in
metabolic
  manifestation
of conscious
significance
refined
in
the bizarre
 appendage
of
allusion
to
  the infinite
appearance
of simularities
  situated
alongside
the aspects
of exaggeration
sequenced
&self contained
in
iconography
Categories: optical, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Arent We Fools

a tiny water drop in light
reflections of love
refractions of hatred
dispersion of rage
rain bow in your
heart
you are a phenomenon
e=mc2
illuminate droplets
we only see incomplete
optical illusion viewed
from a relative angle
melanin is the primarydivision
arent we fools

july 19 2016  9 am
Categories: optical, allusion,
Form: I do not know?
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Overwhelmed By Brutal Workday

lay clothes fall, hit the bedroom floor,
as do those indentured servants bound to my chest.
yawning tears puddle, blur optical lenses,
amble senselessly toward the cookies and chips.
denial as blinds open and close near tv set.
chills before wine sets in and cozy socks settle the argument.

2/19/2019
Categories: optical, emotions,
Form: Free verse
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FACE SPECTACLE--

Face spectacle daunting optical illusion Parallel mind heart intrusion Whom are we to judge Vessel filled with sludge Temporarily soul devoid of joy Father remold me fill my void Upon renewing me mercy grace set me free
8/4/25 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2025©
Categories: optical, analogy, anxiety, appreciation, conflict, confusion,
Form: Free verse

Revelation's Optical Illusion

Quintessentially phantasmagoric,
  her cobalt skies' chimerical fancy
     whores itself out for poetry, 
sumptuously cached 'tween 
    a revelation's optical illusion
enchanting white knights 
     and seducing dragons alike,
her flimflam elusively lofty
 & difficult to evermore be captured
    amidst celestial spheres of rapture
© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: optical, allusion, analogy, conflict, crazy, deep, muse, poetess,
Form: Free verse
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