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Best Momentary Poems

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


Premium Member Eternal Life and the Total Self

Life is but a fleeting whisper echoing through time,
never dying, always being- magnificent and sublime.
The body's a receptacle, a superficial shell,
but in it dwells the...

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Categories: momentary, death,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Pretty Shoes and Cracked Feet
Once I'm gone 
I'll only be remembered a small while
I'm a tiny tick on a large dial
The words I breathe will stretch about a mile
Even...

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Categories: momentary, angst, body, conflict, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Live for Today
yesterday is a collection
of photographic memories
tomorrow a whirlpool of
                ...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: momentary, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Passion In Black and White - POTD - Erotic Verse
POTD 7th Mar 2018

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Like dark molten honey caressing her tongue
and soul food for taste...

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Categories: momentary, romantic, sensual, sexy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Floating
The people of this world are like the three butterflies in front of a candle's flame.
The first one went closer and said:I know about love.
The...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: momentary, absence, analogy, discrimination, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Musings of Love
“You try to be faithful
And sometimes you're cruel.
You are mine. Then, you leave.
Without you, I can't cope."
Rumi


in the kingdom of love,
nothing is simple,
not even musings,
so...

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Categories: momentary, love,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Snowflakes

There's a magic in snowflakes, 
yet their majesty is only momentary -

just like you, 
          ...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: momentary, analogy, life, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member on such divine evenings -
aye …

on such
divine evenings, thus,
are perfect odes not freely spun?
the Perseids, dancing their
jocund jigs -
capricious, evanescent stripes of
golden ire under a tapestry
of wonders …
watching rapt,...

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Categories: momentary, august, eve, joy, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - Chameleon Autumn -
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Categories: momentary, autumn, beauty, color,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Castles In the Sky
The sandman will take pause and say a prayer
Then reach in to his special bag of sand
And with a sweeping motion of his hand
Bright glitter...

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Categories: momentary, death, dream, poetry,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member An Angels Tear
An angel shed a tear from both her soul and her heart
As she viewed the Earth’s beauty that its people called art
Their art came from...

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Categories: momentary, blessing, giving, happiness, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Devil Made Me Do It
It had been a long night, an hour drive just to be with my sister. One must stay in touch with family; it’s the right...

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Categories: momentary, anger, feelings, relationship,
Form: Haibun
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In those bleak fields that so quietly lie - stilled as graves,
Between where the thin wind creaks and upwardly heaves,
Unseen feet can sometimes be heard...

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Categories: momentary, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Somber Is the Color of the Day
Somber is the color of the day...
Window glass distorts the view, of the dreary afternoon
Prisms of light cavorting outside, are reflected from the dew
and rainbows...

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Categories: momentary, day, light, me, winter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Inebriant Melodies
Daylight is greeted with the horrific stench of food chunks 
swimming in stomach acid, dribbling onto bed sheets.
Accompanied with the embarrassment of
brown syrup puddle stains.

Head...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: momentary, addiction, angst, dark,
Form: Free verse

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