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Best Margins Poems

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


Premium Member Rebirth of the Third Angel
A body abandoned 
needs to mourns its last breath in death
a heart cast aside 
still aches to meet its last beat

and a free spirit yearns...

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Categories: margins, angel, beauty, butterfly, death,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Narrow Margin
Sometimes, in uncertain outcomes, as life agitates,
It can sway either way, maneuvering on the edge,
For a difference rather modest, makes the final call,
When a narrow...

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Categories: margins, life, perspective,
Form: Verse
Premium Member One Good Thing
In the late 1970s, I was going home on a Friday evening,
and needed a little more fuel in my truck, 
enough to get back to...

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Categories: margins, life, memory, poverty, work,
Form: Prose
Premium Member What Feeds the Cold
Barren fields of November
Corn stalks ragged
        broken soldiers
        bleak beauty
 ...

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Categories: margins, autumn, bird, dark, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Narrow Margin - POTD
Narrow Margin 2-12-24 This or That Vol. 23 Poetry Contest - Edward Ibeh
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Narrow Margin

Between finite and eternity
 A thin sharp wire divides,
Footsteps that often stumble,
Arms...

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Categories: margins, conflict, relationship, space,
Form: Free verse



Procrastination
Skimming through paragraphs,
I seem to stretch time and shrink my attention 
Underlining words I can't grasp
With my limited span of concentration,
Creating art I can't explain...

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Categories: margins, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Dancing In Ink
DANCING IN INK

A Poem by Debbie_Philly
 
" I love dance and I love writing !!! "
One of my very first writerings 
 
DANCING IN INK
...

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Categories: margins, identity, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What a Lark
"What a Lark"


I used to be inspired once
like a lark beating it’s wings 
higher and ever higher into a
golden and blue eggshell sky.
Hailstones hit me...

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Categories: margins, betrayal, courage, dark, desire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When You Wear a Dirty Shirt
When you wear a dirty shirt,
You're a book getting judged by its cover.
People think you're really poor, or nutty,
Or that you have a menial job.
Or...

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Categories: margins, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Summer's Light
Summer has laid its beauty at my feet
The quivering grasses beckon me
to find my inner child
To set me free a little while, so I can...

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Categories: margins, feelings, happiness, peace, summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Romance Day and Night
Romance Day And Night

How the Romans played their moonlit dreams
splashing out near viaducts of love I can only
wonder same as with knights in shining armour
or...

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Categories: margins, romance, prejudice,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Daybreak: Observed From An Airline Window
The sky shone gaunt gold
on the lip of the storm
before the anvil shaped clouds advanced
upon the burning margins of the world 

Like a dream
the thunder...

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Categories: margins, 7th grade, beauty, day,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Strange Case of Ft
"The Strange Case of F.T."



They say the dead don’t talk
the stories I have calculated
to deliver a saving grace 
confessional shared amongst 
my equal peers, or...

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Categories: margins, dark, horror, poets,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Heart
"Heart"  

Deep fissures formed
in the cracks of 
the nowhere place
where time leeched
bleeding claret 
through the green 
veined blues

protean bit by bit
the flesh disappears
prematurely 6ft...

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Categories: margins, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ten Years, Somewhere In Their Lost Neighbourhood
“Ten Years, Somewhere in their Lost Neighbourhood”

Of course,
he said, like a god,
there is no course,
one must simply go with the flow
the penumbra stands waivering its...

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Categories: margins, muse,
Form: Narrative

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