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Best Cusp Poems

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


At Cusp of Dawn
Mystical Moon, languidly adrift in pallid glory,
is holding night court, clad in gold silk sarong.
Ruling her astral kingdom, amusing with a story
about a cow and...

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Categories: cusp, moon, sun,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Guise of Blue Jay Skies
F  l  y  i  n  g

a sailing tailwind
in cerulean streams
through creamsicle colored beams -
are wings reflective of turquoise truth 
and...

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Categories: cusp, autumn, bird, blue, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rebirth of the Third Angel
A body abandoned 
needs to mourns its last breath in death
a heart cast aside 
still aches to meet its last beat

and a free spirit yearns...

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Categories: cusp, angel, beauty, butterfly, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Final Farewell
To my life that betrayed the butterflies~
          within my chrysalis mind, 
forgive my flawed dialect, 
I...

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Categories: cusp, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spring Sonata
Take me there, where the daffodils dance,
Preening with joy, flaunting nature’s art,
Where birds have assembled to watch
Sitting atop, prancing from tips of treetops,
Tuning lyrics of...

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Categories: cusp, flower, imagery, spring,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Forlorn Hope
Sitting on the cusp of dusk and evening
Placidly he ruminates where life has been 
When she still believed in vibrant springs
And exulted dawning of purple...

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Categories: cusp, lost love, moving on,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Dream Come True
Before the day turned into night
You I saw, what an awesome sight!
A smile of eve, of love and light,
A lovesome theme, my dream did write.

Up...

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Categories: cusp, romantic,
Form: Quatorzain
Wicked Web of Woes, Collaboration with Ink Empress
“Wicked Web of Woes” 

Is there a reason
to rhyme when 
lifeless fingers
breathe toxic agony,
whilst disgraced 
quill suffocates
from wildering 
riddles swerving to
the stillness 
of calcified air?...

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Categories: cusp, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I the Ocean
I the ocean
watch sailing ships
in the salty air 
pass over me

I hold mystery from
the cusp of the moon
an endless view
for all to see

Where laughing gulls
sit...

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Categories: cusp, ocean,
Form: Personification
These Ribbons I Tie As You Leave
Blue – 
for your arm wrapped around
my clavicle. I thought
I would loose my breath.

Red – 
for the cusp of our hip bones
struggling to pull the...

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Categories: cusp, angst, introspection, loss, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Birth of a Swan
Out 
of the darkness

star-lanterns’ beam finds an awakening dream - 
a strewn snowy stream 
gracing the depths of the black swan night


Earthbound

from the realm of...

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Categories: cusp, birth, december, love, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Raspberry Ruins
In a world bejeweled 
with tainted trinkets,
and feigned flowers,
we follow the 
wailing waves below 
whirling wind,
like secluded silhouettes,
stranded on the
cusp of chaos,
unable to find the...

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Categories: cusp, deep, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One Last Dream
To shivering seas 
   mirroring cracked crystals,
I am searching for a righteous rhyme,
to orchestrate eclipsed realms 
with blue orchids 
   ...

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Categories: cusp, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dark
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before”
Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven.



I’m...

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Categories: cusp, dark, deep, moon,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Air
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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Cherish the moments, rising on fabric of fuchsia skies,
Painting motifs of amber dawn,...

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Categories: cusp, nature,
Form: Rhyme

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