Short Photographs Poems

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


Lock Box and Photographs

Cheeks: apple skin shined
Hair: flaxen golden threaded
Lips: petulant pout
Eyes: dark sea currents whetted
Date: Circa 1903.
Form: Tanka


These Walls

I see that your side of our closet 
has gone blank.
And I, 
I do not know 
what to do with these walls
full of our photographs.

Psychopomps

In the eye’s corner
Fluttering in photographs
Psychopomps gather

Watching for the autumn’s fall 
Listening to poetry

by Gail
Form: Tanka

Premium Member FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ family photographs are windows into times passed sweet as well as bittersweet
Form: Monoku

Surrounded By Ghosts

She smiles as she looks at her photographs
and she isn't alone now,
as she lives in the past

written 4th September for Constance's Kimo contest
© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Kimo


Premium Member Haiku: Traditional 29

love notes in the mail -
shining rainbow promises
winter's greening grass

Brian Johnston
April 1,2016

Poet's Notes: 
Photographs in the mind!
Form: Haiku

An Image

A photograph?
Is that all?
A piece of glossy paper!
A photograph!
That is you!
A piece of glossy paper?
Really you?
You?
You?

(February 2022)

Premium Member Rip Bryants

cry Calabasas the ball was dropped way too high dad and daughter hug the photographs still alive potential punctuated 1/27/2020
Form: Verse

Empty Picture Frames

depravation of
          photographs not yet taken-
                            angel’s silhouette


I used:
howmanysyllables.com

July 13, 2019
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Photo Albums

Family albums:
photographs that tell
different stories
from the lives we're living.
Old secrets frozen in time...
history in a flash...
mystery around the edges.
© Jim Healey  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Poor Dan In A Droop Arguing, Mad? Am I Madam

Poor Dan is in a droop... it wouldn't stand up.
Took a few colored photographs closeup.
Mad? Am I madam.
No, I'm Don Adam.
Holding up with Viagra, it erupts.
© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Frozen in Photographs


       Frozen in Photographs

Heaven wind calls  
Cheery blooms near  
Bench feels like home  
Your kiss is warm  
We smile at photographs and spring that never leaves
Form: Footle

Premium Member Autumn Moon

Passing by the midnight gloom 
Daylight had breathed its last breath
Memories are photographs 
Dawn of the sunset began
Postponed by the autumn moon
Imagine lover's lane strolls

Premium Member Photography

Phlox of purple field, Bill's
photographing hidden
Phoebe, favorite bird.
Phased by nothing else, like
Pheasant flying up, he
photographs Phoebes. Next
Phalaropes, wading birds.
© Moon Harp  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Pleiades

Slipping Away

daily I take photographs
of kitchen messes and 
living room piles
papers books, vegetables, boxes
shadows light
outside
heads bent to work and raised to pray
all of this
slipping away

Premium Member In The Mirror

Who is this person who observes?
Familiar, from old photographs
the similarity unnerves:
I laugh the way he also laughs.
Eyes close, the image disappears,
as does my father, and my fears.
Form: Rhyme

Our Dim New Worlds

spent my life taking
photographs of her
in my world of shame

every motion made
was sensual and
deserving an Angelic frame

she now has gone
into the black and white
of which she came
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Thanksgiving Photographs

Faded photographs
Recall past celebrations,
Moments caught in time.
Thankfully we remember
Loved ones gone to heaven's home.


October 19, 2021
A THANKSGIVING TANKA Poetry Contest
Form: Tanka

Premium Member SEPIA SEA

SEPIA SEA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ in sepia waves, echoes of laughter linger time’s tide pulls me back faded photographs, memories in sepia sea love captured in light
Form: Senryu

Visit Visa

1.NIC Copy.
2.Valid Passport.
3.Visa Application Form.
4.Photographs.
5.Bank Statement 6 months
6.Invitation Letter.
7.FRC or MRC.
8.Covid Vaccine Card.
9.Polio Card.
10.Return Air Ticket.
Form: List

Holiday

Family Holiday

Just got Home

Suitcase Open

Full of Dirty Washing

I dare not wash the Love Out

Heart Broken

Left with only Photographs 

To File in said Gallery

Until Next Time

You Were In My Dreams Last Night

You were in my dreams last night--
you are sometimes
after seeing old photographs
and movies.

You were in my dreams last night--
I want the dream
to linger all the days and nights
you did not.

Black Ribbon

Comes like a wave that I can't break,
the memories are flooding back.
I sit and flick through photographs
inside a little brown book.
Black ribbon that you tied was like a sign
of darkness that would bind us.

Premium Member SCRAPBOOKING

Nine photos from forgotten shoebox
Eight photographs, corners mitered
Seven pressed blooms, scent long fled
Six shades of washi tape
Five faded tickets
Four Polaroids
Three smudged dates
Two hands
Snip
Form: Nonet

Turbulence

Photographs. 
Shaking with 
such fervor. 
 
Suited, chilled
Bony. 
 
Wetness contributes
to an anthem of
generational collisions.
 
Pebbles, sounds
of droplets
if you approach
the bench,
uncovered.

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