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Best Alter Poems

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


Premium Member Kindness - POTD
POTD 2 July 2018

Humans are capable of ‘Changing their State’. At times, a stressful, negative fusillade can be encountered from an individual wishing to subvert...

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Categories: alter, inspirational, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Desire Love Romance
All lovely words
when understood

All so misconstrued
silence envelopes our delusions

Desire, we lust the attention
at the forfeit of philosophy

Love, we crave at Kings expense
	at times
		Sacrificing those whom...

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Categories: alter, art, heart, lost love,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Shout Into the Void
Upon the arc rises familiar visage of tenebrous dawn
As birdsongs protest, yet another day gone wrong,
In anguish of emptiness thrashing~ stygian, forlorn,
Screaming relentlessly of despondent,...

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Categories: alter, anxiety, emotions, life, stress,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Repent and Believe
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  Up until the summer of 1999, I only knew of the words "Jesus."
  I knew what was being taught in church.
 ...

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Categories: alter, bible, christian, forgiveness, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ten Years Had Raced Into Oblivion's Cup Second Poets Tribute Series, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ten Years Had Raced Into Oblivion's Cup
Second Poets Tribute Series, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  
Chained am I, to desolation's huge anchor
on its long black ship,...

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Categories: alter, anger, art, dedication, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Welcome To the World of Worldly
Welcome to the world of Worldly 
where we feast all night.
All those things you once thought wrong -
here they all are right!

Worldly’s citizens are many.
Membership...

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Categories: alter, evil,
Form: Quatrain
My Perfect Lover
Five thousand years before the sky was introduced with the sea
It was at that time, that God wrote your name adjacent to me
Even before the...

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Categories: alter, i love you, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hereafter
Living on a planet, unsure if I belong 
Where only sand grains and fossils, seem to last long 
The instinct to breathe air, compelling me...

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Categories: alter, allusion, life, meaningful, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Blind Man Turns
"Blind Man Turns"



Rest easy in my lull, Love

Love 
is not the gentle goodnight, Love

in the beguiling
silence of Lost Lovers' Woods

It is the war we 
all...

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Categories: alter, love,
Form: Free verse
Soulmate Love
Finding love is our unsure heart’s goal as edged on by our confident souls.  Some journey through life with love as their primary dream,...

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Categories: alter, best friend, blessing, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love Burial
The burial ground,  groomed to greet
the gatherers of their love apocalypse
with garlands grown and sown
from the rose fire of Athena's throne,
on this day they...

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Categories: alter, cute love, endurance, love,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Blood Red Moon
Blood Red Moon

Deep devouring passions bleed now from this solar eclipse 
As black blood flows from an evil army of “undead” beings 
Whose fangs hideously...

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Categories: alter, dark, evil, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member In the Seventies
I wore popular shin high white boots,
The top in rage of disco dancing queens.
The Bee Gees were the utmost in the clan
The alter of quantifying...

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Categories: alter, fashion, grief, war,
Form: Rhyme
Man and Woman
She is                       ...

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Categories: alter, body, poems, woman, women,
Form: Concrete
My Tree
MY TREE

Beside the Kinta River still it stands
Colossus of the primal forest panoply
The tree a native of the fecund land
It’s limbs support the graceful arcing...

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Categories: alter, nature, tree,
Form: Narrative

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