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Best Lurking Poems

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


Premium Member In Strangler's Wood
In forest's night, the trees bend low
beneath a slice of half moon’s glow;
          silent shadows waver...

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Categories: lurking, death,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member I Wore Your Skin
~I wore your skin~

Brother, I wore your skin last night
Nothing but friction, blood -dry ink
Announcing a crush "Silence by the Sky!"
Integrity denied, endangered enemy

Brother, I...

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Categories: lurking, anger, bullying, dark, deep,
Form: Dramatic Verse
There Is No Telling the Things You Might Find
Picking a rose in a garden of Sundays
Calling your name on a broken branch wind
Looking for clover where weeds are not welcome
Walking the bridge till...

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Categories: lurking, fun, love, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chocks Away - Poop Poem Warning
My turds float like choc’late marshamallows
Just lurking about in the shallows
I guess that my butt
Is truly kaput
So doctor suggests bitter aloes

I questioned such treatment regime
Doc...

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Categories: lurking, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Inside My Head- For Contest
Hello there, do please come inside- no need to wipe your feet
excuse the mess, I fear you'll find it isn't very neat.
This place is always...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lurking, feelings,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Silence Felled
Silence Felled

Lurking in dark corners
The swamp stirs in the night
As the deceiver rises
Begging to share his illusions might

Only behind the veil
Does he let his murky...

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Categories: lurking, art, dark, evil, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I'Ll Always Remember
I will always remember the moment we met.
(Haunting woodlands in springtime, your slim silhouette)
The glint in your eyes sparked a tempest at dawn
overwhelming the dreams...

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Categories: lurking, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member swirling seven-stars
Life is never a planned ride
      on a magical carpet,
that awakens jasmine
dreams lost in the brisk air.
We weave our own...

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Categories: lurking, emotions, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heart Spilling Blood
Written: February 5th, 2024
                  _____________________________________

My heart is leaking...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lurking, analogy, anger, bereavement, heart,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Characterization
Our two party system isn’t working
Plastic figures, disaster lurking
Conservative or liberal isn’t the call
It’s the ultra rich against us all
For the people is what it’s...

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Categories: lurking, political
Form: Couplet
Higgledy-Piggledy Pickle
I've a bit of a problem here...
in a higgledy-piggledy pickle
torn between housewifery
and creative muses fickle.

Scattered, shattered fragments
of odd ideas, dreams
lay about my den, disguised
not nearly...

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Categories: lurking, funny, humor, imagination, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
The Lonely Plobawobby
In a pond beside a meadow
Where the slime and algae gurgle
Dwells a lonely Plobawobby
Lurking deep in murky waters.
There in sludgy weedication
All day long alone he...

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Categories: lurking, imagination, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hidden In the Stones
Imagine someone watching you
who wants you for his own
Imagine in the catacombs, a secret plan is honed
It echoes with a wounded heart
of someone so alone
He...

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Categories: lurking, art, fantasy, lost love,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Breaching the Barrier of Cries and Goodbyes
Once more you appear, crossing my threshold
after breaking the lock to memory's door.
Your illusion enters without bothering to knock,
stepping into my room as a wavering...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lurking, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Shadowland
 Shadowland 

Chained to the addiction of tempting Fate 
What if I told you that my life was once like yours?
Torn between love and hate
A...

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Categories: lurking, angel, change, death, life,
Form: Verse

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