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Best Physical Poems

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


Premium Member When Madness Rides On Moonlight
Days pass into the weak, loveless nights. The moon blinks.
The stars swirl beneath Van Gogh’s brush, as he links.
Comet light passes twisting cypresses, a schizophrenic’s...

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Categories: physical, god, life,
Form: Sestina



Premium Member Its a Part of Me
Our lives are not immune to the impact of time,
nor is our mind between the tensions of love and hate.
That's why I curse this wanderlust...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: physical, emotions, introspection, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member A Tear-Ful Conversation With My Daughter
It starts with only one -
one like me
a melancholy migrant
from the immortal part of her
to the locus of her physical being --
the center of her...

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Categories: physical, i love you, i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Resolutions
To do justly in a world of injustice,
to love mercy though wanting revenge, 
to walk humbly through forests of arrogance,
to speak softly and not to...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: physical, new year,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Amorous Mystique - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
Can it be, into this world we are dropped
from heavenly streams that have never stopped?

With sweet hope gifted to our souls delight,
oceans of love and...

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Categories: physical, appreciation, romantic love, sensual,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member If I Could
if i could,             

                         i'd  wish a magic wand....

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Categories: physical, giving,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Kept Woman
Dream-worker 
delves deeply into my dream;

vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed 
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine...

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Categories: physical, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Amorous Mystique
The Amorous Mystique

Can it be, into this world we are dropped
from heavenly streams that have never stopped?

With sweet hope gifted to our souls delight,
oceans of...

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Categories: physical, art, beautiful, deep, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Eternal Recurrence
ETERNAL RECURRENCE*


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“I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before and
 I hope to return a thousand...

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Categories: physical, future, life, , atheist,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Soul Travel
Soul Travel

To travel amidst the evening stars
Forever mesmerized by their light...
As visions enter my sleepy head
I marvel my interstellar flight.

The universe is mine to explore
In...

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Categories: physical, stars, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wellness and Worry
Wellness and worry are by no means friends.
To be well, your mind of worry you must cleanse.
Living with worry, there’s a price to pay
worry will...

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Categories: physical, analogy, anxiety, emotions, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unloved
She cocooned herself
Spinning the thread tightly
Around her troubled mind
Knowing out there
Out there were the people
Who watched her unwind
Who could not be kind
Losing ground
Every day
She fought...

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Categories: physical, crazy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Think of You - But I - 2
The rain outside plays games with the webs that cloud my mind,
I think I hear a tune. A drum solo that heralds memories buried deep
and...

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Categories: physical, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member She Arose
She arose…
A phoenix out of a pile of ashes…
Out of abandonment
Out of hardships and constraints
Out of depression and sadness

She arose…
Out of cutbacks and setbacks 
Taking...

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Categories: physical, confidence, courage, endurance, hurt,
Form: Free verse
The Way It Goes
It should have been all roses
But little did she know
Naive girl still
 in her mama's shell

"There's no such rose without a thorn"

Though stories have been...

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Categories: physical, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Lyric

Book: Shattered Sighs