Best Extremes Poems
Between the Extremes - POTD
In the nighttime hours
As the world deftly creeps by
I summon my powers
Spread my wings and fly
Past cotton clouds,
Snow-capped mountains, white
I am lost and I am found
I am beauty and blight
Past the midnight chimes
A soul searching for home
Tangling myself in rhymes
So as to not feel alone
Catch the updraft of hope
Friendship sun on my face
My place in...
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Categories:
extremes, desire, flying, freedom, sunset,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Lows And Extremes
The truth of reality haunts my soul,
lamenting the innocence childhood stole.
A heart that's never experienced love;
always feels empty, never wholly whole.
I found no love on the wings of a dove;
push inevitably turned into shove.
And yet, normality included hope,
and my willingness to partake thereof.
Faced with the fact that I can barely cope,
I'm left dangling at the...
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Categories:
extremes, abuse, angst, depression, father,
Form:
Rubaiyat
Entwined Extremes
'Tween genius and insanity
there may exist the faintest line.
Each one with other- may cross paths-
their undercurrents, intertwine.
Reflect, what is insanity-
but thinking on conflicting planes;
perhaps a mind, set wild and free
from gray conformity's dull pains.
A...
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Categories:
extremes, life,
Form:
Quatrain
Extremes of Love
Love
ecstatic, enthusiastic
blazing, burning, exulting
winks, smiles, rejection, dislike
Numbing, frustrating, misleading
Passiveness, Indifference
Apathy
Nayda Ivette
10-11-2015...
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Categories:
extremes, emotions, feelings, inspirational,
Form:
Diamante
A Solid Nine
She asks me to rate my pain on a,
He asks how much I love him on a,
Now please rate your professor on a,
What would you say your mood is on a
One to ten scale, one being the worst.
Everything, at it's best, gets a nine.
I want to believe there will always
be something better in my future.
I'm...
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Categories:
extremes, hope, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
Two Extremes
Cafeteria
Loud, boisterous
Sweet-smelling, bread-making, cake-baking,
Happy, well-fed, starving, hopeless
Maddening, Saddening, Un-gladdening
Quiet, Angry
Homeless...
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Categories:
extremes, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form:
Diamante
Seasonal Extremes
Summer
intense, fiery
burning, scorching, blistering
heat, wildfires, ice, snow
freezing, chilling, congealing
frosty, arctic
Winter
Ó November 17, 2011
Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen...
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Categories:
extremes, seasons,
Form:
Diamante
Between Extremes
(this is supposed to be syllabic verse, but there's not any selection for the form)
I teeter at this moment
between wanting to touch you
and just walking past by you
not looking back, forget you.
A blanket of cloud hovers
even the sky now teeters
between spreading light to all
or shrouding the earth in dark.
Often I love to linger
choosing quiet...
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Categories:
extremes, angst, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
My Extremes
Yes, I talk to my cat...
it’s good therapy and
soothes her wandering...claws.
Over the years I’ve exercised
my imagination on her neurons.
I’ve told here things you
would not believe,
it’s for a good laugh.
She’s fascinated whenever
the furnace comes on and goes off;
I tell her, “It’s okay, it’s just
the dragon downstairs.
He keeps us warm...
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Categories:
extremes, animal, cat, funny, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Splitting
I operate in abundance of extremes,
Flirtish to skittish; kind-hearted to mean
I am a tolerant bigot or a emotional stoic
Yet everyone around me don’t even know it
The tug-o-war of conflicting interests
Both teams in an endless contest
To control my fast twitch reflex
Of my best defence; verbal offence.
Shutting people down from entering my mind
When I see...
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Categories:
extremes, feelings, identity, sad, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
The Carpet
The carpet has two sides
The upper surface with patterns
The underside plain
It describes two worlds
The rich and the poor
The dignity and the informality
The solemn and the ordinary
The authority and the civilian
The high reputation and the low reputation
The publicity and no visibility
The difference makes the two extremes
Unroll the carpet red and shining
You're the king or...
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Categories:
extremes, god, people,
Form:
Free verse
Extremes
Opposition is the essence of extremes
Love, Hate
Without one the other loses meaning.
But Extremes defy boundaries
Pleasure, Pain
Where does one stop and the other begin?
Relativity loses its fragile meaning without extremes.
Life, Death.
Dieing young, Living Beyond your time.
Extremes lead each to the other without attracting each other
Creation, Destruction.
There is nothing without extremes.
Yet real extremes themselves do not...
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Categories:
extremes, allusion, creation, death, evil,
Form:
Lyric
Extremes
Knowledge, freedom, acceptance
Ignorance, subjugation, resistance
The extremes of our existence
Caring, loving, devotion
Insensitivity, hate, revulsion
The extremes of our emotion
Faith, repentance, salvation
Disbelief, narcissism, damnation
The extremes of our creation
WIZDUMBs BY JA 745...
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Categories:
extremes, creation, hate, love,
Form:
Narrative
Green and Jaded Extremes
‘GREEN AND JADED EXTREMES’
Sea green waves- the perfect backdrop to escape routine
Lime infused cocktails and a favourite magazine
Avocado cuisine supplies healthier options to keep bodies lean
The emerald ring wraps another chapter of lovers unseen
Weary and jaded a dwindling sunset has faded
Vanishing unaided so clichéd and stale as memories cascaded
Fatigued shattered dreams of affluence- obscene...
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Categories:
extremes, introspection, green, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
Between Two Extremes
Between two extremes
I stand
Wandering through themes
Of sand
A little piece of
Paper
Have caused my world to
Waver
Nomad hearts have crawled
Before
The hoary headed bard
Told the lore
It isn’t about time
No more
That waves so sublime
Come ashore
Amidst a world of crime
And deceit
My own self I can only
Repeat
I stand craving true
Esteem
Still in between two
Extremes
...
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Categories:
extremes, philosophy, world,
Form:
Free verse