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Best Incised Poems

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


Premium Member Toilers At the Trench
Plunging, lifting, plunging -as wind blew ashes all around -
the shovels' blades incised the cold and black encrusted ground.

Attached to shovel handles were the arms...

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Categories: incised, history, sad,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Wire Walker
There’s the tightrope for you to walk, wire walker —

defying the gravity of reality and the reality of gravity
you know damn well he won't catch...

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Categories: incised, betrayal, conflict, husband, jealousy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I wish I had
Once upon a silent summer eve, 
as fine vermilion lines, 
between bleeding moonlight, 
swiftly sailed across
  my darkness and I, 
sakura springs sang 
...

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Categories: incised, angst,
Form: Free verse
Tree Rape
Scarlet and golden etched,
autumn leaves reflect summer's apprehended glory
incised in deep veined images.
Released, they sigh earthward like final breaths.

Sharp pungence ripens , musty tang,
a piquant...

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Categories: incised, autumn, change, nature,
Form: Free verse
Black Marmalade
Slicing the instinct
The arcane was torn, curses spit
Teardrop bated as the breath hunts
Wound wide open, the heart cries

The ripple of pain unable to stem
The cimmerian...

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Categories: incised, dark, life,
Form: Free verse



The Epilogue
Hold me within the virtual chalice of righteous
And never let me stray too long amid the imperfection of this body
From this visage of dignity, once...

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Categories: incised, faith, hope, loveme,
Form: I do not know?
Vice Versas Impasse
Embarking upon another vigilant journey, as ever searching these

Sinuous corridores in sublime; a maxims inverted souvenir; effusions

Waterfalls of wisdom to contest this, their mortuaries enigma....

Craven...

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Categories: incised, hope, life, love,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Always a Widow
Here squats a Black Widow spider,
who sups a swig of sweet cider.
     He spies her there,
     scoots...

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Categories: incised, betrayal, food, humorous, insect,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member A Dream Comes Floating

^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ 

We are at the junction of the Little River and the Ottawa River,
journeying into the Canadian wilderness by canoe, the
paddles...

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Categories: incised, hair, love, native american,
Form: Narrative
Switchblade
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *...

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Categories: incised, inspirational, life, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Healing Words
Her words were mumbled unprovoked and put him through the grinder
minced they were tearing apart they hurt like a dagger so he finally knew
where his...

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Categories: incised, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Trash Talkin'
There’s a realness to Charles
a rawness
a grind 
that makes you want to
	slap your leg
like an old jazz man.

Bukowski wouldn’t care
what the hell you thought of...

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Categories: incised, poems,
Form: Free verse
Welcome To Delhi
Revived to pop out as an empty nester 
To accompany a newfangled life
Maneuvered all the way for a change of state
I dropped my bags and...

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Categories: incised, places, social, urbanblue, change,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member My Dream Vacation
Last summer after a long while I enjoyed a dream vacation,
when I was wonderfully filled to the brim with satisfaction.
It was truly worth the hard...

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Categories: incised, analogy, happiness, memory, vacation,
Form: Imagism
Contemporary Art!?
Scathing these miscoloured orbs of sight, with incised rocks carved beneath

Concretionaries jagged edges of contagiums....

Painted upon the predominating canvas of perceptions dank, pasteled times!

So what...

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Categories: incised, life, nature, sympathy
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things