Perceived Vantage Point
This poem is inspired by Jeff Ripple's painting titled 'Stormy Weather'. You can find the link to the painting at the bottom of the page, and there is also an image of the painting uploaded with the poem. It is recommended you view the artwork while reading the poem for a better experience.
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Categories:
vantage point, appreciation, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
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My world moves parallel to yours
Try as I might I cannot reach you
I may understand from a vantage point
But I’ll forever wonder
Try as you might you’ll never reach me
You may only imagine
But you’ll try to help anyway
And that may be enough
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Categories:
vantage point, anxiety, friend, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Vantage Point
She is afraid of suspect spaces,
with sparse starlight, ancient arches,
abyss-steps, swinging lanterns &
comforted by a moonlit garden,
an expansive sky of navy blue,
glitter-stars in an elocutionary’s box.
5/20/2023
Bitsize Contest 64
Sponsor: Line Gauthier
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Categories:
vantage point, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Vantage Point
Serenading you with my sincerity
assembling praises in your name
your one glance falls in place
a thousand emotions it resurrects.
Dawn is the new dusk
you pretend and wave it off
but the beauty in it
like an elephant without a tusk.
I wander to find peace
to render apologies apiece
my state of mind eloquent of a mirage
and I stay
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Categories:
vantage point, analogy, beauty, dark, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Vantage Point Stars Celestial So Shines-
celestrial stars
sparkles ever so brightly
from afar they are
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stars ever trinkles
ever moving shining so
from a vantage point
12/25/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020
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Categories:
vantage point, analogy, appreciation, stars, universe,
Form: Haiku
Beautiful Scene Vantage Point
I see what I saw as I saw what I seen;
Reality vision horizontally is it real;
Is it in the distance is it in the fields;
The verizon pictorial so discreet I see;
The distance and it's free;
Open vision imagery it's so real;
As I look upon the canvas kaleidoscope of the beauty;
Beauty of the fields and lands open
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Categories:
vantage point, analogy, appreciation, engagement, environment,
Form: Free verse
Vantage Point
Life trickled through an hourglass of hurt
Oozing not soothing a nectar of stagnation
He turned the pivot upside and downward
But the aperture never shifted its focus
Narrow and confined he felt trapped inside
Squeezed from outside and within the pain
A kaleidoscope of constricted reflections
Or a rushing mirage on a twisted horizon
He had to shed the load on
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Categories:
vantage point, courage,
Form: Free verse
Vantage Point
The queue curls;
Serpentine.
Crimson faces
A woman exhales!
The last breath of her cigarette.
Takes her place:
at the tail end.
Thin silhouette, vital teeth missing!
We remain at the vantage point; watching.
Food bank: a new entry
In our dictionary.
A kindly man hands over green apples, a loaf of bread
And a tin of soup; indistinct!
To the mouth of the serpent:
An adolescent mother
With
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Categories:
vantage point, angst, anxiety, blessing, emotions,
Form: Elegy
Papa God From Your Vantage Point
Papa God, From Your Vantage Point
Lord, from Your vantage point,
You are able to see,
each star and sun You’ve created and yet
the hearts of all men and still able to zero in on Allen and me.
You can be in a crowd yet
but You still have the best seat of all,
as You help unsaved
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Categories:
vantage point, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Vantage Point
How strange it must seem
when each thing becomes clearer
seen from a distance…
Perhaps the eyes have more time
to see every point of view
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1/19/16 Contest: "Syllables of Wisdom"
Sponsored by Silent One
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Categories:
vantage point, introspection,
Form: Tanka
Vantage Point
Things we take for granted
Might be treasures in disguise
When reflected from the vantage point
Within a baby's eyes.
From a teapot to a squirrel
Or an airplane, flag or bird,
There's amazement when you offer
Explanation with a word.
You can watch the wheels start turning
As the pieces start to click
And vocabulary blossoms;
Repetition makes it stick.
For the world is filled with
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Categories:
vantage point, baby, words,
Form: Rhyme
My Vantage Point
When I look in my mirror
I don't see what you see
I see fear and failure
I see hate and anger
I see inner turmoil and scars of self destruction
What am I missing
I hear your words about what you see
But what you talk about is skin deep
I don't care about my face
I don't care about my body
If you
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Categories:
vantage point, character, feelings, how i
Form: Free verse
Another Vantage Point
I visited the shadow world,
preoccupied with shadowed thoughts
that smoke across the page,
and vanish in the light of reason.
That is to say, it is the proper way
to deal with thoughts like these,
the ones with worrisome exteriors,
fuzzing up the mind...to visit, sift them
through the lens of the unknown.
Is it not pure sacrifice of light
that sculpts an
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Categories:
vantage point, introspection, light, light,
Form: Free verse
Beyond Vantage Point
When the sun disappears from our presence
Hidden away by huge orbs of dark clouds
Spirits become forlorn, emotions tensed
Our focus is lost, and we float about.
As if we just lost our best friend, we mourn
The days when the sun made it all sublime
We could see our life and future far out
Sure, all of our dreams would
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Categories:
vantage point, hope, inspirational, upliftingsun,
Form: Quatrain
Vantage Point
Holding the handle
Touching the toe at arm’s length
I see what you see
By Robb A. Kopp
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Categories:
vantage point, art
Form: Senryu
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