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Best Masked Poems

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


Premium Member Someone Who Used To Be You
When splendor of love spun dreams ecstatic
Musings of fantasy waltzed joyous themes
On blossoms of meadows in prime of spring
And giggles of streams donning green prairies

I...

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Categories: masked, dream, lost love, love,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member Angels
Angelic wings inhabit the mind
To comfort your soul from a sacred sky
Sent to protect and give worth to the blind
And guide the sightless that have...

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Categories: masked, angel,
Form: Sonnet
Northern Slaves
In the silent breathing of night,
treading through 
the darkness and the hush
(A heavy band of slave)
like black ants snaking
through the forlorn distance.
Grieving with tears
Of yesterdays...

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Categories: masked, emotions, metaphor, sad, slavery,
Form: Free verse
If Ever
if i stood
on the ledge
of darkness
aglow in the light
of moonbeams
flickering
like a lost star
beneath clouds
of life's doubt
would you 
step out of shadows
and let yourself
be known

my soul...

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Categories: masked, dream, longing, love, moon,
Form: Free verse
A Legend In His Own Mind
Who was that masked man?!?
Brian Williams, rides again.

He was in Amilia Earhart's plane;
even rode with the Dalton Gang.

The day the Titanic went down;
In the rescue...

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Categories: masked, silly, slam, drug,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Child's Good Night
At night the sun has gone to sleep
And crickets sing a tune.
The bullfrogs croak and creatures creep
Beneath the watching moon.

The masked raccoons and possums prowl
Through...

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Categories: masked, children, dream, home, night,
Form: Quatrain
The Tale of Poetry Soup Forest
There's a defender among us, a friend who never surrenders or concedes
No thief is he, who offers encouragement to people with his kind deeds

A rapscallion,...

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Categories: masked, environment, poets,
Form: Narrative
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: masked, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member He Was My Sun
He was my sun, my one and only son,
attired as a cowboy for the day. 
And so I handed him a little gun
of fastened random...

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Categories: masked, war,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member But, Oh My Fear
His masked face haunts me so 
in candlelight
This vision makes the glow... 
A mystic sight
And I am drawn to him 
In dreams, I find
So like...

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Categories: masked, music,
Form: Lyric
Latent Desires
A world of illusions procreates
blinking sustained delusions
existence shivering in probabilities
memories afloat in traces astray
If only I were a meteor 
I'd cross those barriers
to merge their...

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Categories: masked, analogy, desire, longing,
Form: Free verse
Awaking From Stupor

When the enchanted 
jailors of life, 
siezed my soul 
and those
sepals unfurling
manipulative
manuscripts 
ceased to 
script a twinkle 
above screams, 
I became a 
slave to my...

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Categories: masked, angst, dark, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Abandoned Cities
FUKUSHIMA, OCEAN EXPOSURE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4eGzS0eYuo

FUKUSHIMA RADIATION IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFPEY-r9QQY





"Abandoned Cities"


Empty sentries standing firm
Vacant windows glistening
they sit with Poe, Van Gough and Edvard Munch all broken
waiting patiently...

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Categories: masked, holocaust, humanity, life, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lockdown
Solitary sun in sapphire skies,
beams its rays upon Earth's radiance.
A tepid breeze flows between
daffodils and bluebells, gently rocking.

Spring is in the air,
yet streets remain silent.
Masked...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: masked, angst, environment, hope, spring,
Form: Alliteration
Fantastic Flora Masquerade
Creeping creepy creepers, the crawling trellis
jutting out of everywhere
snaking through country and metropolis
twisting turning in floral bliss
but more like snakes that hiss
But in quietude feign...

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Categories: masked, abuse, environment, flower, garden,
Form: Personification

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