Best On The Brink Poems
Below are the all-time best On The Brink poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of on the brink poems written by PoetrySoup members
I Want Your Seeds**"And his name was Jack"**
No one perceives what abides above the clouds.
A giant, a harp, maybe golden eggs.
I demand to see and feel...
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Categories:
on the brink, adventure, funny, old, rain,
Form:
Free verse
You Caught the WindI remember you, from when there was a spring
When the seasons were ripe, with verdant green
Our nimble feet danced in the wind
and on the brink...
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Categories:
on the brink, death of a friend,
Form:
Free verse
A Lonely RuinEtched in my soul
is the peace of a lonely ruin,
an old chapel on the skull
of a hill surrounded by pastureland
and wind-swept trees.
Below a lake stretches...
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Categories:
on the brink, hope, life,
Form:
Free verse
The Essence of Rose
In the twilight hours
Out here on this ledge
I am filled
With the essence of Rose
As a gentle breath stirs
Her fallen petals
Strewn over
That long and winding...
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Categories:
on the brink, death, life,
Form:
Personification
Crack Like FissuresTo The Brink For The Ink Crack Like Fissures
Another page scarred with ink. Upon her page, I see red...
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Categories:
on the brink, angst, beauty, dedication,
Form:
I do not know?
Each Day Takes Its TurnStanding firm
we live
we give
we take
we learn
we strive to make sure
each day enlightens us
and brightens us
even as light fades...
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Categories:
on the brink, black african american, day,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Loved and Lost -To love
Is to remember
The touch of your hand
Your voice
When you called me cariad
My mouth remembers your kiss
The feel of your lips
Sensual touch of your...
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Categories:
on the brink, lost love, love,
Form:
Verse
BecomeI close my weary eyes
I quake and tremble
The meaning of life losing its hold,
Losing its wonder
In this magnifying, mystifying Sadness
Where is the river,
Where is...
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Categories:
on the brink, age, crush, earth, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
In His BedIn his bed she lies in wait.
For when he returns he will surely sate.
The time in the shower was just a tease.
No time to savor.....no...
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Categories:
on the brink, lost love, passion, time,
Form:
Rhyme
In Her Eternal SleepThe river flows, carrying her
Away from earth out to somewhere---
Bird-music groans as harsh wind blows-
Carrying her, the river flows.
The gulls above cry ,that...
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Categories:
on the brink, death, grief,
Form:
Quatrain
Anyday and SundaysAnyday and Sundays,
breathless with the word,
anticipation - he will show up.
It is the shout of Jericho,
as we walk out...
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Categories:
on the brink, christian, sister,
Form:
Free verse
The Hero Code: DecodedEnthralled by each panel, a world in my grasp,
Comic books whisked me beyond time's clasp.
Starlight's soft shimmer, on planets unknown,
Myths spun with heroes, on quests...
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Categories:
on the brink, hero, imagination, literature, youth,
Form:
Narrative
Forgotten By TomorrowShe stands at the edge of the precipice,
looking down towards her future.
The last tears that she will ever cry,
falling from her eyes,
then falling into...
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Categories:
on the brink, blue, cry, dark, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Elemental DesignsELEMENTAL DESIGN
Hydrogen to Helium
A fusion formed by gravity
A carbon-based delirium
Molecularly infinite energy
An ancient discipline known as alchemy
We’re consciousness - the explosion - amorous
We dream...
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Categories:
on the brink, heaven, moon, science, science
Form:
Free verse
Run Away With MeCome run way with me to brink of make believe
Where landscape undulates to rhythm of my dreams
Come run away with me to gypsy’s golden glen
To...
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Categories:
on the brink, desire, dream, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme