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Visionaries Poems - Poems about Visionaries

Scouting the Derp

...We need a scout.
Someone with eyes for the derp.
Someone to run the arc of this rolling whirl’d,
looking hither and thither,
with eyes that switch-back from the blind spot…

…you know the one.
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Categories: visionaries, art,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSMALL RECALLS

...Each morning You lift Your gleaming golden crown
And awaken me with a divine and pristine light.
So now I thank You Lord for allowing me around,
Relaxing in Your comfort for this long night.
You ...
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Categories: visionaries, happiness, love, parents, remember,
Form: Quatrain



The Entrepreneur

...A recent share on a post, that is so relevant to poets writing in a world seeped in instant self gratification.


Title.

The Entrepreneur

(A lone voice whispers)

We do what we do, because...
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Categories: visionaries, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMountain View

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Mountain View 

With the ascended smoke
the sky was gloomy
Darkened times 
creeping up
stealing the era
Killing the resolve 
rhyming another song
Playing discordant tunes 
ragging the...
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Categories: visionaries, betrayal, corruption, longing, political,
Form: Narrative

A Visionary's Vitality

...Verily do I separate myself from her celestial face; seems thorough that symbolically setting the tune
For a ceremony of God's grace
Acting only by reacting to what's enate 
As if I've been lifted...
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Categories: visionaries, break up, desire, love,
Form: Free verse



Do we as writers create emotional bridges

...As writers, are we all but seducers of the minds of others

We silently kiss in friendship 

As they read one of our poetic gifts?


(À lone voice whispers)


Do we as writers create emotio...
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Categories: visionaries, humanity,
Form: Rhyme

Scripture

...Your ‘calling’ strings you out
into a gospel
of all that you were and are.

A written scripture scrolls on.
You are a witness. The poet that watches,
the one who shows up late in your own story...
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Categories: visionaries, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Ode to all African Dreamers of the Written Word

...In the vast and verdant landscape of African literature, a constellation of luminous stars once shone bright, their radiant light illuminating the complexities of a continent’s soul.
 
 O Achebe, A...
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Categories: visionaries, art, beauty, black love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThrough a world of wax and shadows they ever wander

...Through a world of wax and shadows they ever wander,
Secret auditors of inner voices, clear as crystal,
Following them like music throbbing through the veins of a slumbering city,
Whispering hidde...
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Categories: visionaries, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAncient guardian of the sacred essence

...Ancient guardian of the sacred essence,
You wander through the taciturn void of slumbering souls
Where the shadow of truth gravely trickles into hieroglyphs,
An affection imprinted,
Upon the whit...
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Categories: visionaries, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWe are but transient breezes, subtle specters

...We are but transient breezes, subtle specters,
On this ancient soil, so dense, so tangible,
Yet fleeting seagulls of smoke in nature's hands,
A curtain's sway when the final act concludes,
Depart...
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Categories: visionaries, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

So Far, the Wizard Has Shown Great Qualities!

...We found the silver lining 
buried underneath all the stones we left unturned 

But we're prevailing at a time like this
We're stronger with our ambitions on the line

Why can’t I be the proble...
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Categories: visionaries, appreciation, courage, creation, feelings,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberArtefacts

...ARTEFACTS
recreated
as
a colossus
in  time
 using
dimensional depiction
 extended
 into reality
a glimpse
of the past
with
the possibility
of  consolations
begetting beauty

melanchol...
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Categories: visionaries, poetry,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberSong of the Poet

...*Note - I posted this some time ago on PS and it got POTD, resulting in over fifty comments of support. Social media is a fickle animal, sometimes dangerous. We poets like to imagine ourselves artist...
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Categories: visionaries, love, song,
Form: Lyric

Years

...the big chock in life , It is when you meet some successful folks who cry from years  and you don't know their hidden problems. 
Quote by poet

How many years, 
good visionaries don't count years...
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Categories: visionaries, encouraging,
Form: Free verse

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