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Viewfinder Poems - Poems about Viewfinder

Gradations of Color

...Hydration day’s a month away.
Online belonging company’s an hour from 
startup stardom. Titration hors-d'oeuvre 
Viewfinder pigeonholed 
to rooftop tourist 
traps ruin’d carriage holy woods 
Ho...
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Categories: viewfinder, absence, addiction, age, allegory,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberbabbysitting

...I babysit the daughter (Ivy) of a doctor at the hospital where I volunteer, accumulating ‘clinical hours’ for my med school applications. According to my mom, the purpose of my current existence is t...
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Categories: viewfinder, child, fun, girl, humor,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberJacqueline Trestrail

...On this day 40 years ago in 1978 my mother, Jacqueline Anne Trestrail, left this world after a relatively short battle with cancer - she was 46. Jimmy Carter was President and Annie Hall won best...
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Categories: viewfinder, mother, tribute,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberDerivatives With Limits

...Working over Birk’s Works and other tunes my saxophonist admires—
Cheesecake, Blackbird—for the theoretical, applied mathematics
inside an abstract, audial harmonization of the Big Bang and The Fal...
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Categories: viewfinder, cancer, funny, god, hero,
Form: Free verse

Nikon Fever

...Ever since it came to me
my Nikon has been doing stupid things.

It has hung from cliff edges
just to capture an image of a small lizard
I could have photographed in my backyard.
Its gazed at c...
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Categories: viewfinder, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberPondering Sideways Glances

...While walking I saw 
something move in the corner of my eye.
When I gazed straight at it,
it was gone.
But, on second glance, askance,
there it was, again.
To and fro, direct and peripheral,
i...
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Categories: viewfinder, visionary,
Form: Free verse

Bring Brring Telephone Calling

...'BRRRING BRRRING' said the telephone

“Oh hello” said the wide viewfinder to the telephone. “How are you today?” The telephone fell silent. Very silent. It had no battery with which to call, speak,...
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Categories: viewfinder, bangla, baptism, baseball, beach,
Form: I do not know?

Professor Wilbur the Whale the Second

...Oooh now then. Oh just wow. A scarlet salivating sentinel sentiment is wafting air at that door. Blowing. Blowing is not bubbling so do not count powder puffs or smoke globules that radiate sideways....
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Categories: viewfinder, analogy, animal, appreciation, ,
Form: I do not know?

Premium MemberSaturation

...The faded vibrancy of your smile
Through the exposure we set
Knocks the breath right from my chest
Life through the viewfinder keeps focusing on you
Unsaturated love turning shades of grey
I'm s...
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Categories: viewfinder, blue, i miss you,
Form: Free verse

For Auld Lang Syne Blurring, Blinding and Blending of Things

...Do you see the two about to kiss                                           or vase in the void                                        Reversing figures  a fa...
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Categories: viewfinder, allusion, art, change, imagination,
Form: Free verse

Drama Drama

...Twenty six metres of a thunderous clap multiplied by an octave divided by an individual sunrise equals the power of a dusky sky dome. When the exact position of a cat is on an angle always use the vi...
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Categories: viewfinder, appreciation, assonance, basketball, beach,
Form: I do not know?

Dramatisation

...Twenty six metres of a thunderous clap multiplied by an octave divided by an individual sunrise equals the power of a dusky sky dome. When the exact position of a cat is on an angle always use the vi...
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Categories: viewfinder, betrayal, bible, cat,
Form: I do not know?

You Will Be Next

...A distant shadow waving at me
That cold eyes is lurking in the dark
Song of the death ringing in my ears
I look upon the sky
And see nothing but a pitch black
Screams of horror breaks the loneli...
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Categories: viewfinder, dark, death, depression, scary,
Form: I do not know?

Urban Nightscapes

...After dark, the prosaic comes alive
morphed by a klieg lit stage—
at once, both peaceful and kinetic.

A neon world of predator and prey,
through my viewfinder
garish greens and vivid reds
pla...
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Categories: viewfinder, life, urban
Form: Free verse

Photographer

...Just give me an aperture 
and a shutter speed too
with a bright viewfinder
and a good lens or two.

I’ll take some pictures
in fact quite a few 
I will almost certainly
take a picture of you....
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Categories: viewfinder, life
Form: Rhyme

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