Sketch Poems | Examples

Premium Member Edge of Me


perched on a prominent edge of me
                        I ache looking through my dream debris
compelled I sight a prospective ledge
                       where bits of my gray are shown in sketch
sadly no colors of me do I detect
                     
~why does no dream  ~ ~  dream to console me~

Premium Member Under the gray velvet sky, treacherous winds sketch memories for you

Under the gray velvet sky, treacherous winds sketch memories for you,
The closed window cannot stop the pain that pierces your soul deeply,
Beyond the horizon, another thirsty soul seeks the same breath of wind,
Like a wild river carving its path through the stones of silence.
Open your eyes and look deep into my silent gaze,
Your path is woven from memories, but ahead lies an endless trail,
You are not at the story's end, for hidden promises await you,
Not now, not yet, for the stars have not said all they have to say.
In the silence between heartbeats and the murmur of the wild wind,
Lies a truth like a shining diamond in the dark,
A silent call to step further on the path of life,
Until the moon caresses your sleep with its gentle light.
You are here, constantly becoming, ready to rise from the ashes,
To face the storms with your steadfast and endless courage,
You are alive, you are now, you are here, and your story is still being written,
It has not ended yet, for infinity awaits you with open arms.

INSPIRATION

On the shopping chanel
They sold a watch 
Not the chanel
I wanted to watch

Inspiration I need
Not a watch
Come on please
Help me plot

Seen a sketch show 
The other night
Would you know 
Not a drawing in sight 

Fact of the mattter
Was total uncanny 
A bunch of actors
Revealing their insanity 

I shook my head
Questioning my entire 
Turned to Bob Ross instead
Didn't help me inspire 

Asked a friends help
To Paint my living room
Detail the shelves
Make it all bloom

They turned up confused
With eyes like starlets
As I started to use
My easel and palette 

Maybe I had the answer
Hopefully not too late
To copy Frida Kahlo 
I tried a self portrait 

I set up my Canvas
And got a bit confused
After a few hours past
I got a bit amused

With all to two and fro
Heads start to spinner
I really let it go
And painted the mirror

Maybe Art ain't my passion 
As I can't find Inspiration 
I could try Fashion
But sharp pins and perspiration 

Not to mention scissors slips
May be a big disaster
Fingers and meat that fits
Like that dress by Lady Ga Ga


I Drew You

I drew you today,
your butt came out too big,
your arms weren't as broad as I wanted them to be,
your hair is fine.

There are no hands and feet,
there is no face.

I wanted to show your chest,
your hair that grows there,
I wanted to show your muscles,
I wanted to show more,
but I didn't.

It didn't come out as good as I wanted it to,
abstract is fine.

Maybe one day you'll pose for me.

Premium Member SKETCH ekphrasis


SKETCH

quick draw
for sure

Premium Member SELF-REGARD SYNDROME poetic sketch

visual
  diaries
 conveying
 a sense
 of
performative
persona

 introverted
 &
 private
 together
  in
a
convention
of
representations
 imagined
& figurative
self-perceptions


Premium Member GLASS CAGE minimalistic sketch

reflective intervals
  ambient in tone
& atmosphere

sustained
 solo simplicity
in
floating repetition

 expressive
dissonance
of symmetrics
in
blurred suspense

 delicate progressive
serenity
furnishing
ethreal
  resonations


satie on m.youtube.com/watch?v=FS6o3qFimsc gynopedia

Premium Member PAINTING is POETRY sketch

unconventional
rendering
 in simply
configured
  allegory
of
symbolised
conceptual
    insights

metorphorically
  measured
  motifs
of
amplified
  interplay
in
an aura
of
  ambiguity
in evocatives
gestures

Premium Member WORDS TO SAY recitative sketch

Words to say,

  images in sound
voiced
    aloud
a
spoken

interplay
  of the here &now

ethereal
    &passing
    an impression
in a listener ear

the cadence
      of a voice
    intones
& the two-way process
  comes alive

Premium Member OPEN projected -one-breath-SKETCH

OPEN one breath

phonetic aspects
primarily
  for performance
bridging
 literary
& musical

rhythm
 slack or strong
 high or low
   taut or loose
in
one-breath
      length

verse
  sans
visual
  stanzas
coalesce
in
openness
  on
the
  page
      field
of
spaces&breaks
 sans grammatical
 symbols
in
 intuitive
  cadence

 an interpretative
  interplay 
unique
to the  happening

Premium Member ORGANIC verbal - sketch

words
emerge organically
as blossom
from
inspiration
&
 embrace
a
natural
placement
to
visually
   evolve
into
verse
in
a harmonious
dance
twixt content
& form

unfurling
  as a flower
in the sun
on
the emotional landscape
 of  symbiotic
         thought

becoming
a
rich tapestry
perceivable
    wordplay
indentation
spacing &
line break
 woven cadences
  of expressive
effect

Premium Member Forest Sketch

soft-eyed doe
encircled in mist
mesmerized
I stop-stare
you leap away-disappear
my soul diminished

Premium Member August Sketch Pad

Golden dewdrop spread on gray window sill,
warm rays from the summer sunburst at will,
sprightly cheep from high flier mourning bird,
pulsating heart aroused by what I
heard

Gorgeous is an adjective for viewing,
colors on an august sketch pad brewing,
vivid  blooms awash in swaying basket,
visual trinkets stored in made up  casket

Brown leafs strewn that capture noonday wonder,
elevate a world from going under,
pathway to a peak or slope’s dream patch,
eternal beauty words can never match

Heaven at my doorstep every second,
fantastic bliss around me now beckoned,
mountains, valleys, trickling streams, verges,
a burgeoning green world city surges

Rainbow fountain mesmerizing stunned throng,
eye catcher sprinkled hue a bright mist prong,
gorgeous is that gift wrapped term used above,
blue skyline veil from brushstroke that I wove

All Jobs Can Big Names Fetch

Folks who make life out of Vetch,
For their farms heading on ketch,
Their future they sometimes sketch;
None thinks he’s the truest wretch,
For labor does some hope fetch,
Though, Vetch would their choosers stretch…

Now, Hot Debates in the ketch!
“I can with Vetch accounts stretch, 
Farther move from being a wretch.”
“But in Gold some their names etch
And Vetch can’t such nice dreams sketch”

“No! Vetch can the Big Name fetch
Quit the wretch that makes one retch”
So, say no more against Vetch…

Ink Sketch

Simple, dumb, sinful
and ever so tolerant
of those who, despite 
their complete insincerity 
still managed to convince you

that you in your wholeness
as a human being 
was worth no more
than the judgement of strangers.

I'm still here.
This rotten feeling.
I know it's you.

I'm still here, I know
Deep down, you always wanted to die...

...right?

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