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


Premium Member Hallelujah - From the Mouth of Babes - With Silent One
The Guardian
		Melodic lullabies echo	
		As heart strings strum secret chords
		As transcendental images appear
		Stargazers are lost for words
		Kaleidoscopic Illuminations
		Paint the sky in optimistic light
		Hope descends in serene...

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Categories: extreme, anti bullying, courage, hope,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Yesterday Love Was Such An Easy Game To Play
Yesterday,

I went home for lunch,

I never go home for lunch.

When I got to our apartment 
I don't know why but I didn't reach for my key. 

Francine...

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Categories: extreme, betrayal, break up, heartbroken,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Tower Rebuilt
I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign 
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and...

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Categories: extreme, hope,
Form: Rhyme
My Eyes
My eyes,
you traced the beauty of nature.
The starry sky and inky ocean,
smile of winter in the heavenly garden,
dancing of waterfall on the lap of hill
and...

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Categories: extreme, father, mother, wife, ,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member When It Comes To Me
I often sit for long periods of time
hoping the perfect beginning will come to me.
To write a poem that starts with a pristine Capital
leaving readers...

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Categories: extreme, adventure, celebration, change, identity,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Politics and Poetry - Is Hate Really the Answer
Politics and Poetry – is hate really the answer

Why write a poem of hate about Trump
He’s been there just over a week
Though Hilary Clinton the...

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Categories: extreme, angst, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What Is Love
How does one answer, what is love;
it's part hope, part apparition.
But what it truly is; sort of
simply defies definition.

Have you ever felt so alive
that it...

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Categories: extreme, beautiful, emotions, feelings, heart,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Loss of the Lifeboat, the 'Solomon Browne'
In the year ninteen eighty one on the nineteenth day of December
A day the town of Mousehole in Cornwall, will always remember
An R.N.L.I. Watson class...

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Categories: extreme, boat, death, people, rain,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Sun In - Sun Out
Extreme Sunset


Brimstones past the clouds 
Highlight against the ocean line
Beautiful sunset, warm texture
Warning, the rooster's asleep!

Glorious yellow and orange mixture 
My source of great inspiration
Unmatch...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: extreme, beautiful, beauty, celebration, nature,
Form: 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: extreme, birth, december, love, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member From the Padded Cell
in this your padded cell of silence
you torture me
in your straight jacket of neglect
I writhe
tormented
tried

from the observation window
you look in
cold hearted
indifferent
you take notes
of my descent
from...

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Categories: extreme, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member For Shame
The inky black water sucks her in further
As she descends into the black depths of the abyss
Cloying dark swirls cover her head as soundlessly it...

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Categories: extreme, betrayal, environment, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poor Man Rich Man
I went to a poor man's house
There was an exquisite car in the driveway
I walked up to the grand entryway
Rang his doorbell
The chimes sounded like...

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Categories: extreme, heart, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If I Ruled the World
If I ruled the whole wide world there's so much that I would change
I wouldn't be Mr Popular and they'd think me somewhat strange
First thing...

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Categories: extreme, conflict, environment, hate, international,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member - a Scent of Love Perfume -
My lips burning within longing 
to meet yours my dearest orchid 
I will never ever leave you
As in the softest touch commands obedience 
Breathtaking aroma...

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Categories: extreme, beautiful, dream, longing, love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things