Best Peripheral Poems
Below are the all-time best Peripheral poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of peripheral poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Lies That Exist in Her Peripheral Vision.She held onto Saturday, with hands calloused and nails bitten
down
to the quick...her eyes saw sunlight and denied it's presence while she rocked, back and
forth, back...
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Categories:
peripheral, life, recovery from..., time,
Form:
Prose Poetry
FlightYou gave me wings
to experience the
freedom of flight
...
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Categories:
peripheral, beauty, death, flying, freedom,
Form:
Free verse
My Beloved
Inside such dreams of never lasting days
We traversed such wanting thoughts in emotional astray
On that December night, to our cottage on the hill
Where on many...
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Categories:
peripheral, lost, relationship,
Form:
Couplet
Frozen in the moment
As I watched her dance in the firelight,
hypnotised by her every move that night.
The intensity of the flames seemed to
illuminate her expressions from her lips
to...
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Categories:
peripheral, fire, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Kaleidoscope Dreams
Green…you always reflected in my peripheral
And kept watch as I tried to color my world
But there I lay in my blacks and my blues,
lifeless and...
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Categories:
peripheral, love, metaphor, romance, green,
Form:
Quatrain
Destroying the fox tailEyes furtive carry the reflected sheen of aluminium paint that is smooth a chrome flood
On the tin roof of the woodshed seen, with moonlight awash,...
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Categories:
peripheral, animalsbody,
Form:
Narrative
Colours in a Cloud Speak
"Colours in a Cloud Speak"
The colours
of a world
speak
no one
has time
to listen
The spectrums
speak like
music, lucid
like clouds
that pulse ultraviolet
in front...
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Categories:
peripheral, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Petite Poetess
Petite she may be, but her words say otherwise
Extremely intelligent, simply read through her writes
Themes of mix, appropriates my eyes
Inner thoughts of her peripheral, leaves...
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Categories:
peripheral, blessing, friendship, people, religious,
Form:
Acrostic
PseudonymLife, as a pseudonym,
Drags its shadow's shadow, which snarls
Itself around traffic cones and
Streetlamps, tearing at its skin
With deliberate intimacy
To alarm light witnessed
Only through strained peripheral...
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Categories:
peripheral, allegory, hope, introspection, life,
Form:
Free verse
Phantoms You Have CarriedThe clearest blue became mottled with age,
and I only recently began to notice.
Time-soaked eyes, foggy mirror to my own,
reflecting a frail wire, just out of...
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Categories:
peripheral, absence, age, bereavement, dad,
Form:
Free verse
In Your Face Mentalitysometimes I need to be
very in your face
make myself heard
let out that roar
and drama it up a score
the need for more
at the core
more intensity
vivacity
high voltage...
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Categories:
peripheral, confusion, identity,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The ridersThe pre-dawn stillness was temporarily broken by the sound of crunching gravel as boots meet rock like an orchestra of timpani drums, beating in...
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Categories:
peripheral, adventure,
Form:
Prose
When Shadows Fall
Summer is on the turn, into Autumn we now head
So close this day approaches, inside many heads now dread
We now view through our eyes, our...
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Categories:
peripheral, life, music, nature, seasons,
Form:
Rhyme
Delicacies...to Juvie
With airy tread your footfall makes no sound,
as crackl’d leaves bestrew the frozen ground.
The lightness of your voice floats on the breeze,
its delicacies set...
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Categories:
peripheral, love
Form:
Sonnet
LOSTBeing lost seems to be my only option these days
Confusion appears to outweigh common sense in my life
My ability to reveal truth from lies has...
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Categories:
peripheral, depressiontime,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Delicacy
With airy tread your footfall makes no sound
though crackling leaves bestrew the frozen ground,
the lightness of your voice floats on the breeze,
its delicacy sets my...
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Categories:
peripheral, love,
Form:
Sonnet
Delicacies
With airy tread your footfall makes no sound,
as crackl’d leaves bestrew the frozen ground.
The lightness of your voice floats on the breeze,
its delicacies set my...
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Categories:
peripheral, love,
Form:
Sonnet
Wingful Whispers of WisdomWingful Whispers of Wisdom
Wingful whispers thru portals spread,
as wisdom softly speaks above our head
Limitless bursts of Love thru needles thread,
Angelic ambiance lies straight ahead
Scurrying starlit...
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Categories:
peripheral, angel, beautiful, light,
Form:
Rhyme
Going HomeThere are places that connect us to our past
Points of anchor which once linked us to known havens
Those forms, reflections printed on our hearts
Evoke forgotten...
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Categories:
peripheral, home,
Form:
Rhyme
Completely Instinctual
There's only one emotion that I feel is completely instinctual
spinoff peripheral feelings are thus subservient to that one
and born complex sensual beings, Man pursues its...
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Categories:
peripheral, 10th grade, beautiful, emotions,
Form:
Verse
inferno yawnrise and shine deflect common sense while white dilapidated guts spawn oppossing beats an treats that are not so daring as uncommon feats and relativity...
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Categories:
peripheral, beauty, desire, dream, hope,
Form:
I do not know?
Beauty and Brains
A very interesting, yet a confounding topic
That may perhaps raise a storm in a teacup
Those espousing the cause of women’s lib
Might find it disparaging and...
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Categories:
peripheral, beauty, confusion, wisdom, ,
Form:
Free verse
Uluru (Uluru)This sandstone icon
Inselburg, all alone
Dropped in the outback
Like an orphan with no home
Its family now eroded
Through millennium of time
Uluru (Uluru)
The last of it's line
...
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Categories:
peripheral, places
Form:
Rhyme
Beyond Doors or CursedRock paper scissors,
Wizards of utopian flavored wizardry, exquisitely triumphs in every gamble beyond these doors,
Flawless tangled reversed reflections, remain forever forbidden to thoughtless...
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Categories:
peripheral, allegory, dream, meaningful, metaphor,
Form:
Epic
Leg Pain
Having leg pain
May mean legs not getting
Proper blood flow
Called Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)
What is PAD
With PAD arteries that carry blood to your legs
Feet...
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Categories:
peripheral, child, dad, family, football,
Form:
Lanterne