Imagism Poems | Imagism Examples

Fingertips fall— not like stones, but like rain, plucked silver threading the air. Each string holds a hush, a breath not yet forgotten. The musician builds— not a score, but the curve of a heron’s wing skimming dusk softly vanishing in a single glissando. The guzheng does not speak. It spills: vibrato, a tide rising then breaking against memory. Sound leans back— not toward silence ——but toward a distant shore we once heard. ________________ Note: Guzheng is a traditional Chinese musical instrument....

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time and seeming aging affects us all that's the story told and told convincingly yet appearing with a healing emptiness appearing as these words...

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clinging to a wind-tossed leaf a red-and-black-spotted ladybug flips upside down, then right side up again and again in...

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. she knows better mine frenetic digits theirn ...

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contrasts take advantage of seeming separation to create images imaginings of life and of death and sometimes the imagining of the emptiness of these contrasts ...

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clouds appear as shapes dragons sometimes forks and trees naming the unnamable a search for home (Anthony and Cleopatra) busyness seeming much to do and the rain in opposition (King John) tears and swollen rivers dissolving the boundaries separating home (Richard II) the weather seems to facilitate or oppose bringing to stories uninvited guests (Love's Labor Lost) youth a scattering for experiences away while never departing from home (Taming of the Shrew)...

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. oh my did y'all hear that 'twere thuh soft uv ...

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Looking into your eyes I saw stardust forming into galaxies and I wondered if The Grand Architect felt the same wonder when it looked at its Creation How the starlight danced off the planet’s rings supernovae painted the Open with its Phoenician palette suns bubbled and burst with passion comets streaked as if with purpose ...

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In old New England cemeteries weather-worn slate markers hold each name with tenacity while the teeth of time slowly grind each letter until its name disappears as if it had been no more than a frozen breath of frost etched on a sunlit window pane. ...

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. I read you az if the angelz were add'n new scriptures in God's Inspired Words I write az if thuh angelz ...

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She inhales the aurora, breath laced with frozen with light speed Pulsar fingers stretch through cirrus gauze, her bodice bending like solar flares. Astronaut A quasar shudders behind her lips, erupting across the event horizon. Space folds— she unspools like a nebula unraveling, luminous in the underworld aphrodisiac of your vanilla fragrance...

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Truth plays hide-and-seek with falsehood after losing at ‘Tag’ ...

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. 'tiz plural mine astute indulgerz ...

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A burr stuck smack-dab in the back of his white tuxedo Everyone pointing at it He couldn’t quite reach it though Balked at removing his tux ...

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I am me, just me, no one else the mould got throw after me not possible to make a copy I am the original not a fake. I have taken on life full in the face never wavering just going full steam Challenges I laughed at not fearing them come get me was my attitude. Life was for fun each thing I reached for was yet another...

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