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Best Misperception Poems

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


What Is Love
What is Love?
MAN I don't know!
I mean girls say it to me all the time, but I just blow off their emotions like smoke.

What is...

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Categories: misperception, love, slam,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Noneastern Family Politics
I began reading Jane Anna Gordon's "Creolizing Political Theory"
from the back toward the front,
as usual,
because if I appreciate where this narrative journey will end,
then I...

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Categories: misperception, culture, health, power, ,
Form: Political Verse
Heavenly Marks
On his robe and his thigh he has this name written:
 King of kings and Lord of lords.
Revelation 19:16
You shall have no other gods before...

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Categories: misperception, encouraging, inspirational, religious,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Litany
what sin lies within seeking to learn the nature of our existence?

the wisdom of the ages is meaningless if humanity is gone

is afterlife more important...

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© Ng Rippel  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: misperception, future, people, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Hippocampus
Hippocampus

What a memory trickling down my limbic system
Pure deep emotion released from a firing brain

	Neurons transmitted untainted joy 

A night dive at Stackpole Quay in...

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Categories: misperception, life,
Form: Free verse



Flawless Wish
Written by D. W. Breidenthal 


You take my breath away

I wanna stay in this entrancing paradise
I want all of the negativity to fade away 
The...

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Categories: misperception, absence, addiction, angel, angst,
Form: Rhyme
The Truth Shall Set Us Free
One day, one day the truth shall set us free
Those cunningly told lies will be revealed
Men’s scarred characters shall be unveiled
It will be brought to...

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Categories: misperception, change, encouraging, hope, patriotic,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Navi
Have you ever felt the time was now
To burn it all
To burn everything down

Can it suffice to say
So many ways that souls in flame
Are beautiful
Such...

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Categories: misperception, introspection, life, philosophy,
Form: I do not know?
Too Late
Everything gone, and lost
Images, Memories, misperception 
You should do better,
Echoes, jingles, cries, agony
Flashbacks!
Extreme anxiety swallows you up,
You make a choice, 
Pangs of guilt, repentance, 
You...

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© Debra Mo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: misperception, confusion, grief, heartbreak, judgement,
Form: Prose
Premium Member At a Party
I spoke with two people at the party Saturday.
A young police officer, short-haired, fit,
chiseled face who had two young children.
He felt constrained by the law,...

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Categories: misperception, brother, children, courage, death,
Form: Free verse
The Root of Human Suffering
The root of human suffering is this
we punish ourselves
according to the evil that we see
when we have suffered enough
we say, i have suffered enough
now i...

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Categories: misperception, future, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Prey'D
I'm suffocating in the darkness
blinded by misperception
trying.. so hard to escape
What do you want from me?
My mind? My body? My soul?
I turn left, looking for...

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Categories: misperception, life,
Form: I do not know?
Apart
So we’re apart,
And our talks will never be the same again.
I guess I was the cause
But didn’t realize it until then;
Having never thought of befriending...

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Categories: misperception, break up,
Form: Narrative
Think Know Am
Bubbles of air
Can’t you see
Straight faced
Documented memories 

Lies sprinkled on truths
The misperception of dreams 
Nightmares haunting 
Sweaty screams

Stare away 
I cannot change 
Wished to
Once upon...

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Categories: misperception, absence, anger,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Time To Go
Godot had been waiting for a penultimate eternity

he had been sitting on a gossamer of misperception

like the epitome of Rodin’s thinker falling into sleep


he had...

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Categories: misperception, celebrity,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs