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Imagery Poems | Examples of Imagery Poetry

Imagery Poems - Examples of all types of imagery poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for imagery.
Premium Member Let's Go Mets
If you think it best, I'll go away And wait alone until someday We'll meet that day at Citi Field Behind home plate in seats that yield The perfect shot for the kiss cam I'll kiss you first then...Read the rest...
Categories: i love you, imagery,
Form: Rhyme



Festive Words
Make haste arise, assert the words. Salute each term that now gabfest. In mid of night they waltz, serenade; Jovially jolting a rem-sleep state. Appease them please, awake, awake. You have mere seconds so soon they fade. Witty performers, these festive words; Parade to play part of a poet's...Read the rest...
Categories: creation, dance, imagery, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nova wears Heaven's crown
morning meets a nurse of caring for many years, an aide who's burying some unknown fears, a neighbor's kitten Nova left strewn said--bury in--garden where Pansy's grew-in. life's roads all lives got when life forgot and ought not life's care for lives share ...Read the rest...
Categories: imagery, abuse, best friend, cat,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member The Cottage
Message me sometime some night Tell me all will be alright That waiting will not be for naught That someday we will tie the knot See that cottage over there? It's ours the day that we're a...Read the rest...
Categories: i love you, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Heart gentle, eyes mindful
I've always showered care on ungrateful trees, the ones that bloomed and the ones that withered. I watered them anyway. In this chaotic world, compassion is made slavery, chained with entitlement and false lovebites, yet...Read the rest...
Categories: deep, encouraging, giving, imagery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Skyteam
How beautiful it is to me In my mind's eye when I can see A future time where I'm with you No longer sad, the color blue Is not a mood but it's a bird Upon whose wings love...Read the rest...
Categories: i love you, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Am A Mountain
(Kafkaesque) This is a Franz Kafka style poem All ill manner of men dances at the bottom of my flowing skirt, A circus of vultures aiming high, playing solitude in the dirt, Trumpeting flames reading Classics,...Read the rest...
Categories: dark, fantasy, imagery, mountains,
Form: Personification
Lilith
A dweller in waste places, a void in foggy darkness, the unseen shadow that trails us. A doom that curses benign plants. A tenacious panting wolf feeding off the sorrows of the soil. She's the...Read the rest...
Categories: anger, angst, evil, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Summer’s return
Summer- embraced, like a returning friend- from a distant land. Here warmth descends- here, she’s standing at the green fence. Listen- Summer’s chipping off her snack- rain and leaves crunched, with the cracks, incessantly- stirring a...Read the rest...
Categories: imagery, desire, dream, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Monoku four Cactus
monoku four crowning the cactus —a flower blooms...Read the rest...
Categories: encouraging, flower, hope, imagery,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Palindrome: Dumb-old-dork of Exports
Mom spilled hot stew, wets a pal, lap short-shorts, Dad yelled its hot, loop pool pop dive exhorts, Mom says not that sort of hot, Pip, spiced hot that's all it got? Snot tons, "Jokes--Pip, we're exports, not Hogwarts?" ...Read the rest...
Categories: imagery, confusion, father, friend, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member I'm Just Out For A Bit
KEY: N-Neighbor "An armless heart steals the pause that a calming reveals," ... by The Poet He said his peace then looked at his timepiece like he's forgotten supine the sullen skies that spat in his eyes and smiles with...Read the rest...
Categories: imagery, appreciation, death of a
Form: Rhyme
Look Closely
Submerged in his fanciful palette of feigned perfection his fetid smile suffused through the cold laps of the ...Read the rest...
Categories: anxiety, deep, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ode for a Fortunate Infant
Ode for a Fortunate Infant Newborn: Smacked and Screaming — Hardly more than a new fact, A statistic Already forgetting The crush into Becoming. This “tabula...Read the rest...
Categories: imagery, birth, blessing, family, identity,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Alone With You
You walked through the foyer door I saw you there and thought of more I caught your eye from up on stage My face went flush when we engaged For in that look I said it all My...Read the rest...
Categories: imagery, desire, i love you,
Form: Rhyme

Specific Types of Imagery Poems

Definition | What is Imagery in Poetry?

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