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Best Delirious Poems

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


Premium Member Boy Oh Boy and a Girl
I wish to claim
My boyness
My yesterday sillyness
Innocent shyness
My crinkled nose grininess
That hide and seekiness
Spin the bottle 
kind of geekiness 

Getting caught 
My hand in the...

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Categories: delirious, adventure, boy, childhood, courage,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Narwhal Song
~The Narwhal Beckons Before Dawn~

   If I could sing a song,
   It wouldn't be just any song.
   I would...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: delirious, abuse, character, dance, deep,
Form: Alliteration
Ravens and Castles
...inspired by and in dedication to ~  Victor Buhagiar, Robert Lindley (my mentors) and the rest of the PoetrySoup Family...thank you for your kindness...

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Categories: delirious, dark, deep, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Interlude
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." 
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In this performance we call life,
my spirit searches for an...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: delirious, angst, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sleep Paralysis
“Sleep paralysis is like a waking nightmare, except you can’t escape it.” – Unknown



Tonight, when the 
jilted bells toll, 
my decayed 
soul sighs,
I lay paralyzed...

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Categories: delirious, dark, night,
Form: Free verse



Ghosts of the Sun Dance-Part 1
Ghosts of the Sun Dance

1. The Path

A quest dating back through our history
Surpassing the flesh, a spiritual path
Human endurance, road to mystery
Dark trail winding through...

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Categories: delirious, spiritual, sports, endurance, drug,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
The 4 Seasons of You
I was thinking of the seasons
when suddenly
i was reminded of you
how you loved me and taught me
all about
the 4 seasons of you

I was dormant in...

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© Kurt Kohls  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: delirious, lost love, love, seasons,
Form: Free verse
If You Were Mine
If you were mine... 

If you were mine…our footsteps would   

dance on moonlit verandas
while candle lit shimmers enticed my smiled reflections
with your arms...

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Categories: delirious, good night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The I Love You Conversation
"What do you know of love?" I seethe....
a well of passion longing to be freed
"I love you," the words I finally breathe
and think you'll know...

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Categories: delirious, i love you,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Musk of His Flame
Somewhere along waxed moonglow,
he is there
like a sweet aftertaste on my lips;
through warm fingers he groans
as silence closes my eyelids...
and even the pang that he...

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Categories: delirious, passion, relationship, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Am a Poet
(reversible poem — can be read up or down)

I AM A POET

Wild with intoxication

Soaring high with the wind

I become a song

Singing sadness

Singing happiness

Dizzy from the...

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Categories: delirious, love, poetry, word play,
Form: Free verse
Bones Lament - Collaboration With Darren White
The drip is connected to my right arm
It works, as they say, just like a charm
I'm delirious with joy, must be morphine
Here comes the best...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: delirious, fun, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Write This Way
They tell my heart to be realistic,
Yet my soul is dying to be artistic,
The stress and pain makes me delirious,
I'd rather not take things so...

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Categories: delirious, fantasy, inspiration, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
This Evening Called Passion
This evening called passion 


“Moonbeams now blushing ‘pon soft heavens ashen, 
love flowing deeply, this evening called passion” 



Ensconced in effervescent lingerings
sifting through moonlit seams
Soft...

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Categories: delirious, good night, passion, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sylvia's Flower Garden
Musky fragrance inundates
my nostrils as I enter 
the garden center:
a rhapsodic feeling
in idyllic surroundings.
The air is humid
like an Amazon garden,
heat barely tolerable
making my glasses misty.
Soft...

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Categories: delirious, flower, garden,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things