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Best Lurk Poems

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


One Square Mile
In one square mile, northeast of Noojee,
there are seven birds that I often get to see
as I walk on the tracks in pristine forestry,
in one...

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Categories: lurk, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Spring Petals Kissing Dawns Air - a Collaboration With Charmaine Chircop
When miserable clouds assemble,
bursting with drops of sorrow,
gusts of torment bring dark tides to your door.
You feel hope is like forgotten pennies,
lost at the bottom...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lurk, angst, emotions, hope, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silent Sins
There is a proverbial hypocrisy to
'See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil'

when sinister perversions, 
lurk behind closed doors,
contained inside four walls.

What is a...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lurk, abuse, betrayal, sin,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Art of Forgiveness
To my enemies,
cloaked in t w i n k l i n g topaz~
I’ve become immune 
to your illusive m a n t r a...

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Categories: lurk, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Food Inglorious Food
Be it known as convenience food, junk food or munchies;
whether spicy, melt-in-your-mouth soft, or crunchy,
food, inglorious food, seduces with ease
and ensnares with the emptiest of...

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Categories: lurk, food,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast

In the deep core of her skin
I feel a human who is no saint  
Cutting out her heart, ripping everything to...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lurk, abuse, beauty, dark, emo,
Form: Epic
Anxiety Monster
Anxiety, Anxiety-
you creep, you lurk, you worry me
Mangy monster under my bed
on all my fears you must be fed
and when I try to starve you...

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Categories: lurk, anxiety, emotions, feelings, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Phobia
No flame within! 
      do I hold for you
no delightful delicacy
      shall I put to...

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Categories: lurk, angst, light, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nuts In the Soup
"Nuts are in the soup!" 
That's what I've heard: not so absurd
Some add a pinch of spice now and then,
from wit and the sharpened nib...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lurk, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Legion of Doom
howling black wolves complain to new moon,
of devastation wrought by creatures!
different from rest in size and shape,
walk on two legs, strange hairless features!

in packs behind...

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Categories: lurk, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Poetry Genius
Our poetry genius has come back in view.
He is lost in the haze and still has no clue.
With one shot of bourbon and three fingers...

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Categories: lurk, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Good Riddance
I welcomed you twenty twenty, a brand spanking new year
But all you brought with you was death, misery and fear
So I'll be glad to see...

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Categories: lurk, death, goodbye, new year,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member If only you knew
Is there enough adjectives I can use,
  to sew these sensitive sensations to you,
when my dandelion heart is 
  dense with combustible phrases,
and...

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Categories: lurk, deep,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member I Am Love
I AM 

A Father.
A Son.
A Brother.

None are just titles. 

I live those titles every day through my actions.
I am successful at those roles every day....

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Categories: lurk, introspection,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Evil Eye
The darkness, now descending, floods the city as it dies
while shadows lurk in legions 'neath the looming Evil Eye.
Its frozen stare envelops all, it penetrates...

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Categories: lurk, evil,
Form: Rhyme

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