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Best Onlooking Poems

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


Eclipsed Letters
Intermingled threads of my fantasies pour
from the ink of my love on the bare soul
of the letter I write for you, my beloved
The windowpane sparkles...

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Categories: onlooking, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member For the Love of a Hat
Three girls weathered the Arizona heat
Ranch hands distributed straw cowboy hats
Without them we’d have fallen to sun’s defeat
As our horses bounded through desert flats
Far faster...

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Categories: onlooking, cowboy-western, funnyday,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member The Tear
"Sad Lady"

Like
one of
these tears that
freed itself from
my misted eyes, he's slipped away from me.
Oh, that once again he'd caress my face
like this tear which
warmly slides
down...

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Categories: onlooking, love, sad
Form: Tetractys
News In the Literary Review
Eight authors were killed today,
some of them, somewhat prominent,
and an unknown number were injured,
when a very large crowd of words
came rushing toward them, and 
crushed...

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© Goode Guy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: onlooking, satire, write,
Form: Narrative
The Last Kiss Goodnight
Fire rising upto the statures   
She's sparkling splendid   
Arriving at ever more elevated   

Windblown, desolate  
Bringing warmth ...

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Categories: onlooking, good night,
Form: ABC



A Walk In the Park
A WAlk In The Park

Can I tell you about a couple total strangers, I
Met them on a walk, only introduction wasn't made, however
We shared humid...

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Categories: onlooking, boyfriend, break up, desire,
Form: I do not know?
Metamorphosis
Succulent showers of golden morning dew
bathed my soft coos in pearly rose hue
the day I unveiled from my pretty petals
butterflies singing with naughty nettles.

A blooming...

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Categories: onlooking, analogy, dark, flower, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Dvorak's Living Hell, Part I
The new maid, Jo, walked out onto the deck,
Seeing the reclined form of Eric Dvorak.
He stretched out in the sun,
oblivious to everyone,
then leapt up quick,...

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Categories: onlooking, betrayal, dark, death, horror,
Form: Narrative
Ruby Showers
I spent my day shopping for rubies.
Shades of magenta, crimson, maroon
sparkling in the ocean of my options
as stars which would make me swoon.

The old manager...

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Categories: onlooking, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
An Idle Neighborhood
Dilapidated houses line these streets.
Lawn furniture that holds memories,best kept discreet.
Neighborhood air redden of cooking.
Seniors who've weathered the years of onlooking.
A tumultuous life for those...

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Categories: onlooking, depression, faith, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hiding In Shadows
fog slowly dropping
eerily rolling out 
a dense blanket
begins spreading
creeping over ground
invading forces

her cold fingers
twisting knots
touching slowly
trembles deeply
shivering in body
rattle bones
into the spine

dark souls dance
in a...

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Categories: onlooking, dark,
Form: Free verse
An Idle Neighborhood
Dilapidated houses line these streets.
Lawn furniture that holds memories, best kept discreet.
Neighborhood air redden of cooking.
Seniors who've weathered the years of onlooking.
A tumultuous life for...

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Categories: onlooking, depression, faith, hope, imagination,
Form: Free verse
The Seed
She herself abandoned
her inner self lost to
someone somewhere
in a shower of dreams...

gifts given from heaven
by her shunned...for
these were not enough...

these gentle reminders
yet ever powerful...buried 
pain...

...of...

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Categories: onlooking, passion, woman, self, self,
Form: Lyric
A Madman's Remembrance of Lost Love
Bugs are crawling in my brain
I want to go out into the rain
And laugh and sing and dance all night
But mine is not a happy...

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Categories: onlooking, allusion, analogy, child, death,
Form: Rhyme
The Mighty Blue Dragon
The winter wanes and the soul of the water revives.

Reincarnation incarnate.

The Cascades cleanses her cradle of Earth; kissing it's sediments with liquid sheen and sentimental...

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Categories: onlooking, blue, death, environment, love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs