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Short Portraits Poems

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


Premium Member PORTRAITS ekphrasis

PORTRAITURE profile with style
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Categories: portraits, art,
Form: Footle



AGE
faded oil portraits
in gold patina frames
hide on gallery walls...

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Categories: portraits, age, art, image, imagery, old, people, poetry,
Form: Senryu
Tunnel of Time
Intense memories
   fixed in the portraits of soul
     silent time tunnels...

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Categories: portraits, allegory, allusion, memory, metaphor, time,
Form: Haiku
Portraits
In the ancient portraits,
    soldiers march unscathed,
    their decided glories ......

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Categories: portraits, allusion, literature, perspective, philosophy, poetry, remember, soldier,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Portraits
Simple poses animated by light
seemingly ostensible yet enigmatic
nothing is quite as it seems....

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Categories: portraits, art,
Form: Ekphrasis



Portraits On the Wall Poetrix
Ancient forgotten portraits on the wall
     seem to conspire with time:
        growing age together!...

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Categories: portraits, allegory, allusion, appreciation, metaphor,
Form: Light Verse
Seagulls
Seagulls

Seagulls only paint portraits of
the sea out of 
intrigue, and
never for 
small change.
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Categories: portraits, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Clerihew Goya
Spain's Francisco Goya
his usp clothed Maja
Portraits were a great delight
but he became stone-deaf at 48...

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Categories: portraits, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Clerihew Pisanello
Verona's Pisanello
left few works now on show
His portraits so often in profile
were is very unique style...

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Categories: portraits, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Clerihew Sargent
John Singer Sargent
with oils his particular bent
Portraits of the 'nouveaux riche'
he created a successful niche...

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Categories: portraits, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Clerihew Lamb
Henry Taylor-Lamb of renown
in a group labelled Camden Town
Noted for his portraits unusual
elongated& so 'personel'...

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Categories: portraits, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Clerihew Orpen
William  Newham Orpen 
made self portraits with his pen
So prolific yet largely unsung
through wr duty died too young...

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Categories: portraits, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
The Gray Ghosts of Geronimo
the portraits
hanging on 
the wall
thus
trembling in fear
from 
tall silhouettes
of
the
gray ghosts of Geronimo...

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Categories: portraits, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member GESTALT my perception
artistic perceptions to please-
                                                       self-portraits the ultimate tease...

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Categories: portraits, art,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Clerhew Courbet
Frenchman Gustave Courbet
in paint loved to have his say
He also adored self-portraits
he&his ego were clearly soulmates...

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Categories: portraits, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Ten For
a symmetric eclectic
of film,society politic-
portraits defined
in Andy's graphic line

ten jewish portraits by Warhol...

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Categories: portraits, art
Form: Ekphrasis
Paintress
Alluring beauties
But fake portraits to my heart
Looking for your art
Paintress worth adoration
How shall you portray my love...

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Categories: portraits, art, beautiful, beauty, heart, love, woman,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Clerihew Tissot
Frenchman James Tissot
made fashionable portraits you know
Thin waisted ladies made him tick
brilliant technique so very slick...

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Categories: portraits, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Clerihew Freud
Lucian of the famed Freud family
powerful portraits were his u s p
The human figure made him sing
often pictured sans everything...

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Categories: portraits, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member CLERIHEW ecphrasis XXXII
Giacomo Balla a futurist
with 'moving' portraits did persist
Best known or ' Dog on a leash'*
movement,flight& speed never cease...

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Categories: portraits, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Clerihew Keane
Peggy Hawkins aka Margaret Keane
an artist who lived her dream
Portraits with 'big eyes' her usp
helped her up the 'success' tree...

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Categories: portraits, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Jack Frost
Jack Frost paints portraits

   on the winter window panes

     .....graffiti artist




for SKAT's  "SNOW haiku " contest...

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Categories: portraits, seasons
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Clerihew Vannucci
Pietro Vannucci aka Peringino
tilted heads his usp 'to go'
Gentle,sentimental perhaps oversweet
his portraits  though were very neat...

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Categories: portraits, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Clerihew Archimoldo
The fantastical Guissepe Atchimboldo
used fruit&veg as you might know
The seasons a popular theme
his portraits were not what they seem...

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Categories: portraits, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Still Life Quatrain
Warm sunlight,into perspective
percolates upon pensive portraits.
Anecdotes of the bourgois domestique
commissioned to decorate &please...

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Categories: portraits, art,
Form: Ekphrasis

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