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Best Pinprick Poems

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


Premium Member Undressed By Nature - For Arthur Vaso
Trapped for so long in walls that cocooned her
She struggles to break free
All she desires is escape from the darkness of her prison
And the walls...

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Categories: pinprick, beauty, nature,
Form: Verse



Premium Member The Shifting Stars
I lay me on the grassy lawn
And watch the stars, they're floating on

While one comes out from round the eaves
Across the sky another leaves

The sky...

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Categories: pinprick, dream, night, sea, stars,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Mom PS
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Learning to change stinky diapers
                 While holding my breath
...

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Categories: pinprick, children, life, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Empty Room
Alone  the bones of the room bear no weight 
of responsibility  nor does it bare its breast of secrets

a broken pane provides a...

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Categories: pinprick, baby, flower, girl, grief,
Form: Free verse
Letter From a Map To a Diary
It’s no wonder you like secrets. 
It’s not that your thoughts are secretive in nature. 
It’s more that they are themselves a secret, penned on...

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Categories: pinprick, change, inspiration, lonely, love,
Form: Free verse



A Daughter's Protector
quick! grab the soft rose
your hand now aching, bloodied
thorns unconsidered

life's dream isn't always what it suddenly seems in ice cream's melted hope
not when a yearning...

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Categories: pinprick, abuse, birth, daughter, evil,
Form: Haibun
My Brother
Brother i miss you so dearly
I am sorry you left before i could say goodbye
What a beautiful soul you are
your passing away has left us...

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© Vani Gopal  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pinprick, brother,
Form: Light Verse
The Longest Dawn Part 2 Hc Sonnets
THE LONGEST DAWN PART 2 H C SONNETS
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Each stage of life left without a goodbye
Youth, adult, work to live to earn your place
Strive to eat,...

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Categories: pinprick, life,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
A Requiem of Broken Dreams
In a dark and barren wasteland, in a black hole of time,
a lonely man that wanders - sorrow eating up his mind.
On his shoulder, troubles...

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© Kaelan Fox  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pinprick, dark, depression, dream, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Silent Fires
And like that, the mind flashed on
The light was slowly dulling and the darkness was winning
Crushed into sooty shadows
Thoughts spewed from the gloom
Glowing so pessimistically...

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Categories: pinprick, absence, abuse, age, analogy,
Form: Free verse
A Special Memory
A special memory


Still remember the memorable day,
When happiness was on my way,

I was anticipating confirmation of our meet,
Passion was eager to warmly greet,

Legs were trembling...

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Categories: pinprick, memory,
Form: Couplet
Decompensating
My arms hug my knees
in that wet warmth
and hold my thighs against my baby belly.
I'm blind--
floating away from the pinprick of light.
Living forever within a...

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© Anamika N   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pinprick, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fleeing Unseeing
Last night I dreamt of them
Fleeing under the cover of darkness
Liars, adulterers, murderers and thieves
Terrified of the monsters on their heels 
They flew into an...

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Categories: pinprick, evil, horror, imagination, magic,
Form: Free verse
Keep Your Eye On the Big Picture
When the dots won't joint together
And the planets don't always align
When circumstance lets you down
Keep your eye on the big picture.

When people disappoint 
And there's...

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© Peter Hall  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pinprick, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Over a Bath Tub
There were tiny clouds
in the bathroom. I could see
the glimmers from a universe
of air and bubbles, 
inside my reach,
pinpricks in the
transparent air.
I dream I am...

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Categories: pinprick, dream, nature, universe,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs