Poems about literature

• Iconic Image

  Your Ophelia, my dear Millais,
  will forever be the iconic image

  by Bad Bill 14 lines, 6 comments, on Oct 29 2:55 PM. In Art, Literature, Contest
• Storybook.

  This Alabaster Monument.
  It's Like the Color of Your Skin.

  by Greedyzen 57 lines, 1 comment, on Oct 26 10:41 PM. In Sad, Breakup, Love, Literature, Book, Alone
• Maggie And Prometheus Bound (Fiction, 640 words)

  This is a work of fiction and is in no way meant to accurately portray any person or persons living or dead.
  

  by Yemassee 55 lines, 34 comments, on Oct 15 4:06 PM. In Humor, Thoughts, Life, Literature, Fiction
• Literary Design

  My life unfolds like the book you spoke of,
  

  by mhwillingham 42 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 13 5:36 PM. In Love, Lyrics, Thoughts, Literature
• Letter to Keats

  by myrataal 18 lines, 33 comments, on Aug 10 2:13 PM. In Literature, Keats, Letter, Personal
• the gongs striking, but silent (ode to ms. woolf)

  "Here on this ring of grass we have sat together, bound by the tremendous power of some inner compulsion. The trees wave, the clouds pass.

  by Daniela Violin 30 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 7 6:44 PM. In Abstract, Dark, Virginia Woolf, Literature
• I don't believe in Paper Towns

  I don't believe in Paper Towns.
  John Green does not define me.

  by pinksnowboots 24 lines, on Jul 15 7:23 PM. In Life, Weird, Thoughts, Personal, Society, John Green, fiction, literature
• Penelope's Trial

  Clever lady
  Fending off grasping, hostile hands

  by FelineMuse 5 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 1 4:01 AM. In Odyssey, Penelope, Literature, Homer, Greek Myths
• Saccharine Epitaph

  "The shadows were children then, eager to run away from the shade where they couldn't distinguish each other's features from the rest of the shapeless black."
  

  by FarEdgeOfTheBox 64 lines, on Jun 3 12:16 AM. In Thoughts, Society, Contemporary, Literature, Quotations
• The Displaced Man

  He’s different, too other for
  the natives to accept, people

  by hacim 21 lines, on May 12 8:51 PM. In literature, xenophobia, fear, bigotry, hope
• The Eyre Around Us.

  The red room of panic and distress,
  My uncle's ghost won't let me rest.

  by lila.dusk 17 lines, 3 comments, on Apr 27 4:58 AM. In Literature, Pain, Hope, Thoughts
• [ Rolled models ]

  Rolled models
  Vomit-stained

  by FelineMuse 16 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 23 2:39 PM. In Social commentary, Literature, Role Models, Vampirism in literature, Abuse
• To My Protagonists

  Adele,
  I can only hope that you accept this apology

  by Emster 27 lines, on Feb 22 3:38 AM. In Other, literature, writing
• [ Soft rains of gamma ions ]

  Soft rains of gamma ions
  Pool in a breath-taking glow

  by FelineMuse 8 lines, 1 comment, on Feb 20 9:39 AM. In Literature, Short Stories, Science Fiction, Nuclear Aftermath, Ray Bradbury
• Dido

  Loved twice, left twice
  Your fears proven true

  by FelineMuse 12 lines, 3 comments, on Feb 18 4:51 PM. In Literature, Greek, Aeneid, Dido
• Haunting Echoes

  Form: Sapphic Stanza

  by Ceridwens Soul 3 lines, 3 comments, on Jan 28 3:07 PM. In Literature, Sapphics
• Medeaphor

  Monstrous
  Woman

  by FelineMuse 30 lines, 1 comment, on Jan 26 4:18 PM. In Literature, Greek, Myths, Metaphor
• [ Iphigenia: ]

  Iphigenia:
  A fair miss

  by FelineMuse 11 lines, 1 comment, on Jan 25 6:28 PM. In Literature, Greek, Myths, Metaphor
• A Wander in the Mind of a Madman (Ode to Lewis Carroll)

  AP: Slavetothemusic. Thanks for hosting this competition, the great man is one of my favourite authors too!

  by slavetothemusic 34 lines, 3 comments, on Jan 21 8:33 PM. In Fantasy, Humor, Society, Thoughts, Literature
• Clytemnestra

  Clytemnestra
  Has time tarnished you?

  by FelineMuse 15 lines, 2 comments, on Jan 20 12:23 PM. In Odyssey, Agamemnon, Literature, Greek
• Circe-ular Arguments

  Was Circe to blame
  For giving Greek men snouts

  by FelineMuse 10 lines, 1 comment, on Jan 20 12:08 PM. In Odyssey, Literature, Greek
• Surface and Symbol

  Not useless beauty,
  But the complications of

  by Veeolin 13 lines, on Jan 16 8:05 PM. In Life, Journey, Literature, Art, Allusion, Spiritual, Happiness, Enlightenment
• Andromache

  Facing death, I think of you
  Life, birth, marriage

  by FelineMuse 9 lines, 1 comment, on Jan 14 2:23 PM. In Iliad, Literature, Character study
• Andromache

  I stood on the wall and watched you
  As I held your infant son

  by FelineMuse 24 lines, on Jan 14 2:13 PM. In Iliad, Literature, Character study
• Helen

  I'm beautiful
  A work of art

  by FelineMuse 11 lines, 1 comment, on Jan 14 2:00 PM. In Iliad, Literature, Character study
• Priam

  I had fifty sons
  When this damned war began

  by FelineMuse 11 lines, 1 comment, on Jan 14 1:52 PM. In Iliad, Literature, Character study
• Hektor

  I am not a faceless beast
  Ravening and cruel

  by FelineMuse 14 lines, on Jan 14 12:49 PM. In Iliad, Literature, Character study, Nature of war, Enemies
• Thetis

  I know what it is like
  For your soul

  by FelineMuse 11 lines, on Jan 12 9:33 AM. In Iliad, Literature, Greek Myths, Goddesses
• [ Patroklus ]

  Patroklus
  The origin of family

  by FelineMuse 24 lines, 1 comment, on Jan 6 12:46 PM. In Iliad, Literature, Greek Myths
• Foot, soldier

  Well, Achilleus was a heel
  Letting comrades die

  by FelineMuse 17 lines, 1 comment, on Jan 6 12:36 PM. In Iliad, Literature, Greek Myths
• [ Does death ride a pale horse, ]

  Does death ride a pale horse,
  The color of indulgence and cream?

  by FelineMuse 20 lines, 1 comment, on Nov 7 3:49 PM 2008. In Literature, Death, Afterlife
• Palindromes

  Live was I ere I saw evil
  Eyes broken witnessed a shattered soul

  by Shadow Fairy of Twi 8 lines, 2 comments, on Oct 29 9:40 AM 2008. In The Poisonwood Bible, literature, Thoughts, Weird
• Book of Secrets

  by Cynthia Gaines 16 lines, 10 comments, on Oct 11 2:20 AM 2008. In Books, Literature, Philosophy, Thoughts, Truth
• The Sea In Poetic Terms

  by Mari Goes 21 lines, 14 comments, on Sep 28 5:51 PM 2008. In Literature
• My Books.

  by TheStupidLamb 27 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 28 6:16 PM 2008. In personal, thoughts, literature
• Hamlet’s Ghost

  Take now
  this final tableau:
  

  by writetheway 41 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 12 6:20 PM 2008. In literature, life
• Oh Titus

  If Revenge, Murder and Rape fooled you
  Just kill them all.
  

  by razorbladechaos 18 lines, on Jul 16 10:38 PM 2008. In Humor, Literature, Shakespeare
• Wooden Glass

  The material is strong unlike that glass,
  Yet it is just as delicate and just as soft

  by BlackSwan 43 lines, 13 comments, on May 7 7:09 PM 2008. In contemporary, fantasy, nature, literature
• Bewitched Immortal Love

  A Vampiress' Love Story

  by APoetessSylvia Leigh 54 lines, 1 comment, on Apr 28 6:34 PM 2008. In Dark, Erotiva, Vampiress, Vampire, Moonlight, Love, Passion, Literature, Turn Me
• Americana

  to the masters of the pen
  born of a mixing nation

  by Everlasting-Fallout 38 lines, on Apr 28 7:34 AM 2008. In Literature, Poetry, Society
• Dusting Off Some Dear Old Things - Bronze

  here is the whole of it, a book of simple words
  rasping its scratchy throat that puts mild men to sleep

  by CarolDesjarlais 25 lines, 7 comments, on Apr 27 4:54 PM 2008. In Literature
• Der andorranische Jude

  by LittleAnn 16 lines, 14 comments, on Mar 4 4:44 PM 2008. In National Socialism, but-not-really, Literature
• Point of Decision

  It was winter. It was the city. It was night.
  It was bitter cold.

  by MargaretG 37 lines, 6 comments, on Mar 1 2:31 PM 2008. In Literature, Found, Contest
• Tribute to Percy Bysshe Shelley

  by Cynthia Gaines 4 lines, 23 comments, on Feb 18 6:00 PM 2008. In Literature, Philosophy, Poetry
• Wolves - Based From Hamlet's Sililoquy

  To be, or not to be- that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler to leave the pack

  by Ivy-Lee-Ellas 43 lines, on Feb 10 10:05 PM 2008. In Shakespear, Hamlet, Wolves, Literature, Thoughts
• These Words Alive

  I sit here in the dark of night
  And let slip these words I love

  by CaliOkie 49 lines, 6 comments, on Jan 31 11:54 AM 2008. In Historical, Literature, Lost
• Withered Majesty

  With flicking tail the ethereal being
  Is one with the surrounding aquamarine.

  by GossamerAlice 33 lines, 3 comments, on Jan 25 11:13 PM 2008. In metaphor, nature, mermaid, literature
• The Death of Life

  A leafy child,
  Fetus bound to the ground,

  by GossamerAlice 37 lines, 3 comments, on Jan 25 10:55 PM 2008. In metaphor, blank verse, plant, death, literature
• The Kid Comes Back Mad

  ("this carry go bring come my dear, brings misery")
  
  

  by polly filla 58 lines, 8 comments, on Jan 11 6:13 PM 2008. In Literature, Art, Political, Anti-Capitalist, Freedom
• Divine Justice

  by CitrineSunrise 31 lines, 3 comments, on Jan 5 1:31 PM 2008. In Spiritual, Thoughts, Literature

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