Best Exterior Poems
Below are the all-time best Exterior poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of exterior poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Ballad of the Poet*The Dead Poet*
Many blocks along the road,
Kicking down walls of heavy stones,
Yet no one could draw through the walls of her lonely bones.
A...
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Categories:
exterior, beauty, death, deep, emo,
Form:
Ballad
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:
exterior, child, dad, daughter, father,
Form:
Rhyme
Judge NotThe congregation eyed him skeptically
Long hair, a beard and sandals on his feet
Beyond his exterior they’d not see
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Categories:
exterior, faith, son, spiritual,
Form:
Quatrain
In So Many WaysYour willing lips encased entwined with mine
The taste as soft as the morning cast dew,
Emerald eyes the clarity of wine
Brings to mind...
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Categories:
exterior, love, thank you,
Form:
Sonnet
The Dilatory ThoughtBlessed in abundance that manifests in our
stressed daily interaction with our fellow man, and the sincerest
form of our inner wellbeing is the outpour...
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Categories:
exterior, introspection,
Form:
Verse
Ugly
Underneath the exterior
Gardenias bloom unannounced
Lamenting that no one lifts the veil
Yearning to be seen...
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Categories:
exterior, beautiful, image,
Form:
Acrostic
Clouded Mirror
The intricate and winding complexity of this aged device groans as its worn exterior strains.
Though delicate, it punctures through the malice of fools' logic, gripping...
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Categories:
exterior, allegory, appreciation, beauty, emotions,
Form:
Burlesque
A Casual ObservationIt was not that she was the only woman in the group, when mingling precariously beneath the bronze figure of William Booth, or her classic...
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Categories:
exterior, angst,
Form:
Haibun
An Interior Mechanism
Since childhood,
as alexithymia struck my soul.
I kept all my hopes a secret,
hidden in a bucket of unshared dreams.
I kept my soul sweet like marshmallows,
but life...
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Categories:
exterior, analogy, emotions, life, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Beautiful SadnessBEAUTIFUL SADNESS
“The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,
Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows
brown and sear.” William C. Bryant
Does...
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Categories:
exterior, depression, love,
Form:
Haibun
This Old HouseThe old house, built in 1895, was the best of weathered antiques having hugged North Rogers Street from days of horses to days of horse-powered...
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Categories:
exterior, home, memory,
Form:
Haibun
- Seeing Beauty -Why have all a beauty ideal
Every day we make aesthetic judgments of each other
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Categories:
exterior, people,
Form:
Blank verse
RecognitionRecognition
There I am again,
in the wall-size mirror
at the gym,
myself seeing myself,
a compulsion of sorts,
a checking-in
to see what has changed.
My bent...
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Categories:
exterior, age,
Form:
Free verse
Looking Into the Mirror"Looking Into the Mirror"
Sudden realizations iced up his core
To form the frozen image of a man
He who stared in reflected embarrassment
While sobering silence...
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Categories:
exterior, sad, parents, child, parents,
Form:
Free verse
Heart
"Heart"
Deep fissures formed
in the cracks of
the nowhere place
where time leeched
bleeding claret
through the green
veined blues
protean bit by bit
the flesh disappears
prematurely 6ft...
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Categories:
exterior, muse,
Form:
Free verse