Best Edge(A) Poems
Below are the all-time best Edge(A) poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of edge(a) poems written by PoetrySoup members
The RoseThis is not a poem about a rose
Nor a poem about diligence and beauty
Today, I sit and stare at the walls
Walls that...
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Categories:
edge(a), absence, allusion, death, depression,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
It Matters NotIt hovers here, a moon opaque,
obscuring mountain trails I take.
No other living things appear.
A moon opaque. . . It hovers here.
I follow on along a...
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Categories:
edge(a), dark, lost love,
Form:
Quatrain
Whispers SharedYour time worn hand rests on my shoulder
A gentle firm touch
Ancient fingers stretching awake
And for that moment in time, I receive you
My body marinates in...
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Categories:
edge(a), appreciation, beauty, community, creation,
Form:
Free verse
A Vanilla DoveCypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
the gravel...
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Categories:
edge(a), bird, death, grief, hope,
Form:
Free verse
No ReservationYou Are Not Invited
--Latching onto my soul without an invitation--
Elements around my shore expose more than air
--Playing with fire is not a game you will...
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Categories:
edge(a), abuse, bullying, deep, evil,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Military Tunic~Homeless~
A lost guardian angel, sitting on the edge of everything
I push my shopping cart along the cracks of destiny
My house sits on...
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Categories:
edge(a), memorial day,
Form:
Free verse
How Do I Hold the WindOn the edge of silence
beyond the mossy-muffled stone wall
a wind chime chants — faint, like falling sparkles of stars—
honeyed musings of a wind spirit...
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Categories:
edge(a), grief, longing, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Eroticism of Inspiration
In swoon ‘neath golden moon and sable sweep
let bathe with hues upon my canvas soak
romance a mingle,...
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Categories:
edge(a), appreciation, art, inspiration, night,
Form:
Rhyme
Because of YouI used to be naive, I used to trust
but then that trust just crumbled into dust
the world at large is so unkind, it's true
there is...
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Categories:
edge(a), meaningful, truth,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
A Chorus Sang Its Last ConcertoI walked in darkness along the shore
seeking only solitude and nothing more
Thunder drummed from somewhere far away
like foreboding timpani as clouds began to play
They competed...
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Categories:
edge(a), beach, emotions,
Form:
Elegy
Someone Who Used To Be YouWhen splendor of love spun dreams ecstatic
Musings of fantasy waltzed joyous themes
On blossoms of meadows in prime of spring
And giggles of streams donning green prairies
I...
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Categories:
edge(a), dream, lost love, love,
Form:
Blank verse
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:
edge(a), autumn, bird, blue, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
Mirrored ReflectionsReceive
Listen
Be Still
Whispered words arriving on teardrops of the wind
They call to me
Embracing me so that I may exhale
For a moment in time
I look down to...
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Categories:
edge(a), appreciation, celebration, fantasy, image,
Form:
Free verse
WallpaperWALLPAPER
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Paper Thin
Cut down to any size,
Crumble, crop me wrong
Pull the insulation from my heart.
Never will I be "A Paper Doll!"
Thank you for calling me...
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Categories:
edge(a), change, creation, friend, identity,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Rose BowlThe sky is a gigantic bowl of pink turned upside down,
spilling soft rose petals that peeked out
from beneath snow white billowed clouds
till - fully blossomed...
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Categories:
edge(a), love, nature,
Form:
Free verse