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Best Abyss Poems

Below are the all-time best Abyss poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of abyss poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Black Diamond Night
Black Diamond Night (a coal miner’s cemetery) 

Where the ebony, we call “NIGHT”,
Old black rocks sit under the twilight
Diamond shape eyes unclear and lonely, 
Sinister...

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Categories: abyss, body, death, history, lonely,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Alice Sweet Alice
~Alice Sweet Alice~

        *Like Sisters*
   Everyday -- Holding Hands 
Sunday Dress -- Pink Ribbons
  ...

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Categories: abyss, abuse, addiction, anger, art,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Soul Embrace
Sunlight rains upon my face
Cascading memories cloaked in mystery
Kissing my eyelids
Ancient teardrops glide down my cheeks
Warmth illuminating my hungry soul

A sense of calm
A pulsating ellipse...

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Categories: abyss, age, child, creation, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Death of the Poet Destroyer
~The Untold Fatal Attraction Poem~

Mid-morning she sees the sun ahead
Her death flowed in a messaged bottle
Gazing into her brown eyes upon all open sores,
Her conscience...

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Categories: abyss, birth, change, conflict, death,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member A Poets Abode
A Poet’s Abode

A poet’s peaceful abode surpasses bliss
Depicting imagery beheld by eyes.
Dreams revealed go beyond the great abyss
Of space with stars that fill our cobalt...

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Categories: abyss, art, beauty, passion, poetry,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Letting Go
"Letting Go!"

Behind that garden rail
Where worms squirm and roam,
They dig into every bad part of my day
I feel them crawling, making my hide their home
They...

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Categories: abyss, depression, emotions, hate, immigration,
Form: Dramatic Verse
So Soft Is the Sonnet of Willows
This is a very long poem and I will understand if you choose not to spend the time reading it. 
It is something I wrote...

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Categories: abyss, life, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Life, To Me
Colors daubed for seasons' scenes
          I sift through life for what it means
   ...

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Categories: abyss, appreciation, friendship, life, love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member It Is Quiet Tonight
It is quiet tonight.
The only sound is coming from
the soft murmur of the television set.
I don't know why I don't just put it on mute.
I...

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Categories: abyss, death, grief, husband, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member American Indian, Nightshades, Moonshadows and Howling Wolf
American Indian, Nightshades, Moonshadows And Howling Wolf

Thirsty for red moon, its sacred beams and eternal pull
howling-out to speak to this dark and blind world, without...

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Categories: abyss, art, conflict, death, history,
Form: Verse
Premium Member My Poems Are Children To Me
My poems are conceived, not within the womb,
which long time now has been devoid of seed.
My poems are born from a need to be heard:
my...

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Categories: abyss, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tearful
“My tears are testimony of my devotion to Beloved;
and from those tears white lilies will grow that speak the truth.”
Rumi

I had heard the legend of...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: abyss, appreciation, love,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Moonstones in Artless Skies
It feels like the world
has been struck by a 
plague of pathological lies,
where fictional truth 
seems to sell better,
the allure of
imitation glistens 
even brighter, 
while...

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Categories: abyss, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When We Were Young
When we were young we loved our fairy tales
A frog could  be a prince with just one kiss
Each cloud, a boat where dreamers could...

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Categories: abyss, analogy, life,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member They Told Me You Cried
They told me you cried on the day I died
A sob splintering through a silent dome
Your sorrow a shroud on the catacomb
As I laid where...

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Categories: abyss, lost love, recovery from,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs