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Best Outer Poems

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


Premium Member Indian Ink
INDIAN INK

Indian Accent, form the whispers inside
Chanting from long ago
Echoes come and go
Losing time in a soft eternal glow

A beautiful and delicate autumn mountain scene
Dry...

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Categories: outer, abuse, autumn, death, deep,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member I Am More
I am more than your definitions
more than affixed labels
placed on my anatomy
more than your misconceptions
or even valid perceptions
I am more

I am more than what's written...

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Categories: outer, poetry,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Love Has Its Costs
THIS IS A FICTIONAL WRITE THAT EXPLORES THE QUESTION OF WHAT LOVE IS. IT DOES SO IN A DRAMATIC WAY, AFTER ALL THAT IS MY...

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Categories: outer, desire,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Hot and Cold Comes the Night
LIST POETRY - A FUTURISTIC INTERPRETATION 


You
must know
I cried yesterday 
and I think I broke the world
so I braided some words into twine
planted some sweet...

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Categories: outer, depression, heart, introspection, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Out my window
the moon swoons in enfolding arms of sky -
a glassed-out world I cannot touch,

seen through pain and this pane
my four sycamores, sick to the core...

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Categories: outer, depression, nature, symbolism, tree,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Atlantis
~ATLANTIS~   Featuring:) Kelly Deschler

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Can't be re-written by the Gods
The land and sands of time'
Destroyed by the fire of Poseidon's curse 
Atlantis swallowed by:...

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Categories: outer, beautiful, fire, grave, imagination,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Beneath the Shattered
Test me
I am willing
To fail

Failure
Is not fatal
At all

All things
Are born to be
Broken

Break free
From the outer
Hard shell

Shells can
Hide the beauty
Within

With love
Flowing freely
We glow

Glowing
For all the world
To...

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Categories: outer, birth, courage,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Tissue Box
like visitors from outer space
they came with tears, and lined the sidewalk
long in face, and arms embracing
some (I have no inkling) who
they were or why...

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Categories: outer, child, cry, daughter, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Know Yourself
For years before the narrow windows of my senses
                ...

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Categories: outer, god, introspection, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Lives I Have Known Potd
It has been ages since the laughter died, which was many suns ago,
Soon swept away by fleeting time, like the brief giggle of a rainbow.

My...

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Categories: outer, absence, house, imagery, life,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Icing

FOUNDATION

“...we achieve true wholeness
by embracing our fragility...”

Jalaja Bonheim


FOUNDATION

i had
no script

no actors

no stage

instead let me direct this life

my life

stage the words

add a subtle dramatic  tone
with...

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Categories: outer, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poet -This Poem Is About You
-Dear, Mr & Mrs Poet- 

Do you ever question where it comes from?
This poem's about you, sit down and get a load off 
Tranquilize your...

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Categories: outer, dedication, deep, inspirational, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Broken Doll
Walls of silence hold,
 Me prisoner,
The child held within,
 Cries out for release.
Relative solitude comforts, 
Not the tortured soul,
Inward coiling withdrawing,
 Deep inside. 
Shedding its...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: outer, abuse, childhood, conflict, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member She - Epitome of Erotic Love
An Ode to Femininity and Romance -

The background music of this delicate poetic arrangement is intended to be played softly as you sit back and...

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Categories: outer, love, romantic, sensual, sexy,
Form: Rhyme
Diamond In the Sky
A dead star that inspired this poem--the companion of the star 55 Cancri, in the constellation of Cancer the Crab--has now shrunk to only about...

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Categories: outer, star,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs