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Best Precipice Poems

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


Premium Member Precipice of a Lost Innocence
I am standing outside my bedroom, on the precipice of lost innocence.
Wide eyed, and barefoot on cold hardwood.
Someone is hammering on our front door.
My father,...

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Categories: precipice, childhood, mother,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member The Precipice
Is it insane to want to watch your step,
to purposefully plant a foot?
 Must one’s eyes always be downcast,
if not pierced or piercing are we...

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Categories: precipice, art,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member As I Watch the Waves Crash
From precipice of memories, flashbacks nostalgic billow,
Thinking of you as I ruminate, adoring the views below,
Where waves oceanic dance, leaping on windy tempos,
Propagating ambitions of...

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Categories: precipice, life, lost love, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library
Toddlers' Exploration: 

Cardboard drum, a thunderous beast,
Playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide, dreams just out of reach,
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles...

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Categories: precipice, adventure, books, childhood, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Mountain of Regrets
As large boulders weep,
Tears stream down sharp cheeks of stone:
Sobbing precipice....

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Categories: precipice, nature
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Shadowland
 Shadowland 

Chained to the addiction of tempting Fate 
What if I told you that my life was once like yours?
Torn between love and hate
A...

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Categories: precipice, angel, change, death, life,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Poets Are Dead
On days I read…
   O dread
      The poets are dead!

A taste of bitter
   A tatterdemalion squalor
...

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Categories: precipice, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Paper Kingdom
Immigrants why do you come?
Whether you are spiritual or mathematical etc. This is our Karma:

Isacc Newton’s 3rd Law
For every action, there is an equal and...

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Categories: precipice, how i feel, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Forgotten By Tomorrow
She stands at the edge of the precipice,
looking down towards her future.
The last tears that she will ever cry,
falling from her eyes, 
then falling into...

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Categories: precipice, blue, cry, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Elemental Designs
ELEMENTAL DESIGN

Hydrogen to Helium
A fusion formed by gravity
A carbon-based delirium
Molecularly infinite energy

An ancient discipline known as alchemy
We’re consciousness - the explosion - amorous 
We dream...

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Categories: precipice, heaven, moon, science, science
Form: Free verse
A Light In the Darkness
This darkness overwhelmes me yet a glow it lights my path
a fire burns inside me to defrost the winters wrath

This weight I bear suppresses hope...

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Categories: precipice, hope, me, me,
Form: Couplet
Little Glistening Salmon
“Momma… what are those lights up there?”
“Those are salmon fish, glistening in the sky…”

…

She begs to understand your fears, your passions, your pursuits
She is down...

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Categories: precipice, adventure, appreciation, beauty, earth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Illness is
a lonely place.
It's nothing to do with that person
who asked how are you? this morning.
It's to do with staring through
fear-frosted windows
as snow sugar-sifts the street,
watching...

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Categories: precipice, life, sick,
Form: Free verse
Mountain
MOUNTAIN

                        ...

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Categories: precipice, analogy, identity, integrity, introspection,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Secrets of the Stream
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Impatient, are the waters, that ripple in the stream
Taking no notice of one all alone
They continue to flow, to swirl, twist and turn
They pay no...

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Categories: precipice, introspection, nature
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs