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Best Maze Poems

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


Premium Member Lost In a Maze
A cryptic note:  
“Meet me in the middle of Nowhere,
Tonight when the moon is full.”
What is my wife playing at? Is this her idea...

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Categories: maze, adventure, lost,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Amidst the Darkened Veils
'Neath umbra skies I seek a mirrored moment

the breeze a capricious charmer
blows serpentine sways to life
a ballet of tall switchgrass dancers
sweeping edges raspy green
dulling in...

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Categories: maze, angel, august, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oh Lord, I Praise October Days
The bogs’ their fruit – the woodlands’ leaf
embrace a ripened red motif,
as cranberries and maples blaze
Oh Lord, I praise October days.

Where starling murmurations dance
a breathless...

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Categories: maze, appreciation, beauty, blessing, happiness,
Form: Kyrielle
The Philosopher
*Based on Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Numb fists with bloody wrists 
chained to crumbling walls.
Glazed eyes that never spy 
a single truth or fault.
Dim light...

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Categories: maze, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Counting Seconds-The Rewrite
i sit lonely. 

the crowded restaurant is thick with sound 

i pick away at it 

moving back into the stagnant silence 
of my own comfort

the...

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Categories: maze, mental illness,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Art of Anxiety
When anxious thoughts linger through a grey maze of silence,
I search for metaphors of hope in trembling twilight-
while ink refuses to bleed~ heart fights for...

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Categories: maze, angst, anxiety,
Form: Tritina
Premium Member Nemesis-POTD
In the realm of battles waged by fate,
Where heroes rise and villains bait,
There dwells a force, unconquerable, vast,
A nemesis, whose shadow is cast.

With nefarious intent,...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: maze, analogy, appreciation, creation, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library
Toddlers' Exploration: 

Cardboard drum, a thunderous beast,
Playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide, dreams just out of reach,
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles...

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Categories: maze, adventure, books, childhood, imagination,
Form: Narrative
.."?Your Beauty!"..
Blackberry kisses, within the celestial starlit mornings hour....

Stirring these passions aglow, amid the flickering flames of desire ~

Caressing such thoughts of you; smouldering embers, that...

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Categories: maze, faith, life, love, passionlonging,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Ballad of Poet Destroyer
"The Ballad of The Poet Destroyer"

Destroyer, and creator of words
Flying high on the wings of a bird
Drowning every inch, by foes and friends
Where has she...

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Categories: maze, absence, courage, me, missing
Form: Dramatic Verse
Categories: maze, society, war,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member A Psychedelic Whistle Plays a Rhythm Into the Darkness
A Psychedelic Whistle Plays a Rhythm into the Darkness

Entering the dark side of a moonbeam on this evil lens of life,
A gruesome old man recreates...

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Categories: maze, dark, evil, fantasy, horror,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Je T'Aime 'Neath a Banyan Tree - Erotic Verse
The story behind this poem
The curiosity of many of my readers (many of them women) was excited in my previous poem ‘Passion in Black and...

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Categories: maze, i love you, inspirational,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Theft of My Will To Survive
Blindly.. 
I beseech you
for my eyes won’t adjust
to this shaded maze of despair -
neither the lantern’s flame 
nor a compass rose can help me now
in...

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Categories: maze, dark, depression, grief, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Will To Survive
Tribulations of testing times,
when a result of human crimes,
bring only melancholic rhymes.

You just desire to be understood,
when overwhelmed tears begin to flood.
Where there is not...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: maze, abuse, pain, strength,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs