Best Dense Poems
Below are the all-time best Dense poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of dense poems written by PoetrySoup members
A Long Loud Sighgenius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...
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Categories:
dense, introspection, drug,
Form:
Free verse
With Open ArmsCome to me my child
Rest your head in my lap
My hand strokes your wild curls
Feeling the dampness on your neck
Lamplight caresses your flushed cheeks
Shadows waltzing...
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Categories:
dense, appreciation, emotions, fantasy, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Wings of ChangeRemembering when
Perched high above on rocky crags
Cliffs weathered by times handprints
I saw far and wide to distant shores
Tendrils of desire radiating outwards
Riding the briny mist...
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Categories:
dense, appreciation, birth, celebration, creation,
Form:
Free verse
Healing a Broken HeartThe bleeding sunset lingers on her mind
as night approaches and the sky goes dark.
Her soul is restless; how it craves to find
some words of comfort...
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Categories:
dense, heartbroken,
Form:
Sonnet
DandelionsSustained by the frequent spring showers
Adorned by rosettes of dark green
They burst into dense yellow flowers
The florets parading their sheen.
They sway to sensations of pleasure...
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Categories:
dense, flower, nature,
Form:
Quatrain
Beautiful DayAwake... my first breath in the quiet of an April dawn
becomes a halted gasp, caught and hung in mid air
A warm, silent smile deepens as...
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Categories:
dense, seasons,
Form:
Free verse
Life At a GlanceEnamored, I sit, in mystique of space and time
Glancing at intricacies of ebullience sublime
Contemplating mystery of universe all alone
Through echoes of destiny, heard and known,
Where...
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Categories:
dense, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Out of the BlueFalling down into
a dense, tangled mood
darker than the skies
at the midnight hour...
Leaving me caught
in infinite space
by hands on the clock
that grasp me and pull
to where...
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Categories:
dense, blue, deep, feelings, lonely,
Form:
Free verse
My Darling Little One, You Carried MeA hardened and disciplined man drove to the grocery store lost in thought,
with setting of sun, the long day's work almost found it's end.
Hoisting...
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Categories:
dense, child, dad, daughter, father,
Form:
Rhyme
Sacred GratitudeSacred Gratitude
Rockin and Rollin inside my soul
Beckoning musical notes float within me
My heart surrenders and opens
Expanding
When the world outside dances in tension
Feeling bleak and...
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Categories:
dense, appreciation, beautiful, dream, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Reflecting RipplesI stand alone a barking tree, where silent sorrows of ripples flee,
No one hears my calamity, wearing weeps of my raped reality…
Branches droop to ice-cold...
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Categories:
dense, abuse, conflict, destiny,
Form:
Rhyme
Florida Keys PleaseNo litter, no rules, no society scent,
just peninsula pure soul content, ideally lent.
Awed and wowed with arms stretched wide,
I stand on Key’s narrow road, on...
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Categories:
dense, appreciation, beauty, ocean, sea,
Form:
Rhyme
Creative Inspiration
Inspiration where do you go when
you leave and your dry, barren
riverbed causes blinding dust storms in
my mind? Do you evaporate into
mist, become a gray...
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Categories:
dense, inspiration, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Inebriant MelodiesDaylight is greeted with the horrific stench of food chunks
swimming in stomach acid, dribbling onto bed sheets.
Accompanied with the embarrassment of
brown syrup puddle stains.
Head...
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Categories:
dense, addiction, angst, dark,
Form:
Free verse
Face To Faceawoken yet still dreamy
i float towards the window
by which i wait
by which i dream
peering through the fog of reality
i think of you
how I love you...
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Categories:
dense, love,
Form:
Free verse