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Best Insubstantial Poems


Premium Member When Madness Rides On Moonlight
...Days pass into the weakest of loveless nights. The moon blinks.
The stars swirl beneath the colored brush of Van Gogh. He links.
Comets trail snowfields of light pass agonized cypresses, schizophre......

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Categories: insubstantial, lovegod, light, god, life,
Form: Sestina
Sanguine Sky
...Sanguine blush, outreaching its origin,
Roses bloom across the painting.
The sky extends its insubstantial limb,
Spreading its fingers- in gesture towards you.
A great fan, coral but crimson,
Sh......

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© Sasha Edl  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: insubstantial, love, nature, passion, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Through the Mist
...I grope through forest misted by my pain
Unearthly feel of gloom enshrouding me
Like wispy ghosts the memories a bane
Their hazy fingers keep from breaking free
Beclouded are my thoughts with fog......

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Categories: insubstantial, confusion, heartbroken,
Form: Ottava rima

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Metaphoric Richness
...He smiles at me.
As though the weight
Of psychedelic visions
Were insubstantial
And inconsequential;
A trivial thing.

Broad-shouldered emotions
Mushroom through 
Organic momentum
To greet ......

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Categories: insubstantial, funny, happiness, love, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Empty Chair
...Why does it
A N N O Y
me so
when i take the
T I M E
to read a poet’s words
C H E W
them up with delight
only to find
that they rudely (my opinion)
T U R N E D
off their comments

my brai......

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Categories: insubstantial, appreciation, silence, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Doing My Best
...

I cannot fathom eternity. 
So I wash the dishes from dinner. 
I cannot comprehend the vastness of the universe and galaxies. 
So, I read another story to my child. 
I catch glimpses of how in......

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Categories: insubstantial, faith, family, god, humanity,
Form: Free verse



Time Barriers
...Time Barriers

How can this be
Where did we begin
Not in any kiss
Has passed this secret
Onto the present

Did we miss
Separated in timelessness
Undefined memories
Shimmer in fields
Where......

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Categories: insubstantial, life, lost love, love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dark Angels of Highgate
...Enough Angelina, drop the bouquet of harebells.  
The flowers wilt as your graying hands stiffen. See, how grave
is our newborn son. We gift him a black crêpe layette.
Say Darling Edward,......

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Categories: insubstantial, death,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Being a Better Man
...Did you ever think what you’d give up to be a better man,
If you somehow could know this was true,
That your life was of value, your dreams were a gift,
The world a better place because you were b......

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Categories: insubstantial, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
Grace
...The autumn sky attunes itself to hearts,
a sour grey murky wash where lost eyes tire.
with insubstantial dust it affects so,
that vision blurs and minds retreat to when
those aged weary organs la......

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Categories: insubstantial, analogy, assonance, autumn, bible,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Dysfunctional Dreamtime
...1.

A red helium balloon
                                   I float above myself,
Watch the ritual unfold:

                                   Gather the sharps
                               ......

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Categories: insubstantial, health, introspection, people, sad,
Form: Free verse
The Suicide Soul
...A life uninhabited by the suicide soul
life ground him down and took its toll
once a fruitful hardworking life endured
grandeur created from dreams obscured 
Being an Entrepreneur creating millio......

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Categories: insubstantial, suicide,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Noise
...i am transformed.  in what i see.   
my eyes can not discern
as shapes melt and swirl
and break into dots --
merging with the Static.

i am transformed. in what i hear.
of overlapping rips of ......

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© Sam Toil  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: insubstantial, introspection, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
The Father I Lost
...Memories felt after so long repressed
Now burn like a fire inside of my chest 
They flow now as ink from the tip of my tongue 
For the father I lost when I was too young 
These memories loosed li......

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© Jesse Rowe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: insubstantial, death, father, loss,
Form: Elegy
The Returning
...
"The Returning" 

Inside us all 
a strange forest

where light and dark 
are fed to us by 
curious creatures,
their unexpected gods 

in thoughts and deeds
joy and fe......

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Categories: insubstantial, muse, mystery, philosophy,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things