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Best Phantom Poems

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


Premium Member A Long Loud Sigh
genius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...

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Categories: phantom, introspection, drug,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member At the Footbridge - Limerick Collaboration
At the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his ********
For his love...

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Categories: phantom, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Sleepless Night
Sleepless Night

Teardrops, bagged eyes, a way of sin
The mirror reveals a lost eternal soul
A conniving move against tonight's phantom glow
Voices circle around the insomniac moon
Like...

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Categories: phantom, anger, death, farewell, memory,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member A Vanilla Dove
Cypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties 
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
the gravel...

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Categories: phantom, bird, death, grief, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Music of the Night
With the tremulous dark vista so far and yet so near
Abandoning my defences ~ I stand in awe ~ not in fear

 Virtuoso Maestro unleash...

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Categories: phantom, desire, music, night, romance,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Winds of Autumn
I called to the winds of autumn
As they wrapped up the dying year;
"Oh stay for a moment and tell me
Of answers I need to hear".

Who...

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Categories: phantom, life, lost, autumn, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member New World Order
The Rulers wield their silver shields,
             wear golden coronets
while warders guard the prison...

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Categories: phantom, drug, society,
Form: Rhyme
The Philosopher
*Based on Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Numb fists with bloody wrists 
chained to crumbling walls.
Glazed eyes that never spy 
a single truth or fault.
Dim light...

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Categories: phantom, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member All In All, True Magnificent Treasures Given - a Collaboration With Robert and Teppo
Luscious the fruits, beautiful under moonlit beams
firmly planted roots, outstandingly hot, lush-sent dreams
all in all, glorified visions, heavenly sent
treasured deeply with rapture stored, sweet love-nights...

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Categories: phantom, appreciation, beautiful, desire, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member All In All, True Magnificent Treasures Given
All In All, True Magnificent Treasures Given

Luscious the fruits, beautiful under moonlit beams
firmly planted roots, outstandingly hot, lush-sent dreams
all in all, glorified visions, heavenly sent
treasured...

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Categories: phantom, art, beautiful, creation, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Alien Feet
ALIEN                        ...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: phantom, absence, adventure, body, character,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Black Magic Woman
Madame Mistress, ebonies princess,
Southern comforts golden jewel,
A golden beauty down south does dwell.
She hides many secrets beneath her,
Glittering mask of mystery's mystic spells.
A dark priestess...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: phantom, adventure, beauty, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sweet Ghost Valentine
An old house I am led to -it is the symbol of
Memories in cobwebs - like those of old lost love.

A storehouse for so many...

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Categories: phantom, lost love, love, me,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Night Shoes
(iambic tetrameter)

The curtains fell and wrapped the stage
as lights and accolades became
another yesterday once more.
Another night and one more show,
another play that doesn't last
beyond the...

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Categories: phantom, night,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Plucked Violin--- Memories
This is too complex; i mean the throbbing  wound 
grating my belly on a dappled day, a day 
breathing of tender winds and violins....

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Categories: phantom, i miss you, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs