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Best Liminal Poems

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Premium Member Liminal Space-Surreality
Classical infusion Beethoven’s “ode to joy”
Playing on blaring audiophile speakers annoy 
Purposely looped to destroy vagrants with electronic music
Blends of subversive elements and anxious acoustic...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: liminal, confusion, surreal,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Liminal
“Liminal”




At the threshold point 
where rite of passage holds a pearl
hierarchy is reversed within the realm of ambiguity


Girl into Woman
Woman into Girl


Dissolution of Order
Fluidity a...

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Categories: liminal, love, mother daughter, sister,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Liminal Spaces Creep Me Out
Something about liminal spaces gives me the willies in a scary way. 
They raise the tiny hairs on the back of my neck by my...

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Categories: liminal, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member They Told Me You Cried
They told me you cried on the day I died
A sob splintering through a silent dome
Your sorrow a shroud on the catacomb
As I laid where...

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Categories: liminal, lost love, recovery from,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Tears Of A Pierrot
Porcelain chalk white mask
  moves with silence of mime
that hides a lovelorn face
 moonstruck by orbs of light
with shadows to embrace.

Porcelain chalk white mask
...

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Categories: liminal, love, sorrow,
Form: Monchielle Stanza



Premium Member THE PATH WELL TRAVELLED - POTD
POTD 23 Mar 2024 

THE PATH WELL TRAVELLED.

Two paths diverged, and I was thrown by doubts I had never known
To my left, thickly overgrown, was...

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Categories: liminal, inspirational, journey, life, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wisdom's Marching Council
I know you invited the Brothers to side-line along,
but only if we are here to listen;
Don't speak.

Yet I may have credential for qualifying voice.
For I,...

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Categories: liminal, deep, health, poverty, race,
Form: Political Verse
Shadow Trees
Shadow trees 
On gentle breeze, heave 
and lip the edges of a sanctuary 

Hallowed space, of union graced 
In liminal hour 
Protected 
where dappled light...

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Categories: liminal, imagery, introspection, journey, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silent Storm Seduction
She laces this dark late winter's evening
with white manna grace,
flowing flying frosting
folding in and over and around
dark naked tree limbs
dress up and out 
under icey...

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Categories: liminal, beauty, nature, race, silence,
Form: Free verse
The Saltmarsh
Dark Clouds are gathering over the sea,
and shadows now race across the mudflats.
What use to me now is fitful moonlight
I pray to the gods, for...

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Categories: liminal, allegory, father, wife, earth,
Form: Free verse
Body: a Glose
“Consider the kind of body that enters blueness,
made out of dead-end myth and mischievous
whispers of an old, borderless 
existence where the body’s meaning is both...

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Categories: liminal, absence, body, depression, identity,
Form: Ghazal
A Beguiler's Last Laugh
Well now, beneath the darkest realms
In nightmarish gists, I am the one
Who instills fear and in putrescence I dwell
In variety, isocheimal ulteriority is all I've...

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Categories: liminal, angst, betrayal, corruption, dark,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Graceful Sky
Peculiar grazing through hills and valleys
A wide smile is seen in liminal space
Awaken the graceful sky's surging keys
Peculiar forage through hills and valleys
As I cry,...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: liminal, appreciation, sky,
Form: Triolet
A Boundless Reality
A liminal space, 
A boundless reality, 
A limitless thought, 
A never ending chain, 
That leads to the events that affects the lives of millions, 
A...

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Categories: liminal, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rambling Muse
You temping muse, wrapped in that shaky sky.
Alluring sapphire hue, a breathless shade
It shows a dusk-toned liminal doorway.
You temping muse, wrapped in that shaky sky.
By...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: liminal, analogy, appreciation, muse,
Form: Triolet

Book: Shattered Sighs