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Best Pretentious Poems

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


Flo J Thomas a Walking Angel Gone
For the rose without season is you
Light between stars shine through your soul
Ocean of kindness whispers your name
Joy resides in those beautiful eyes
Treasure trove,a friend...

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Categories: pretentious, absence,
Form: Free verse



Simple Words For Simple People
If I  had a pretentious brain
which acts faster than my heart
Maybe then,I would abhore this soul
which spreads freely through each verse
Maybe then I would...

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Categories: pretentious, analogy, beach, beautiful, books,
Form: Prose
Simple Words For Simple People
If I had those pretentious brains which act faster than this heart

maybe then I would abhore this soul which spreads freely through each verse

maybe then...

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Categories: pretentious, love, on writing and
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Words On the Go
Words can be whimsical, a merry-go-round
They run in a circle, they bounce up and down
They play hide-and-seek, until they are found
Look how quickly the little...

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Categories: pretentious, fun, silly, words, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Value Yourself, Poet

Stop being so downcast!
Stop feeling so blue!
And please, stop caring about how many here like you!
On this planet we have but a short time here.
Don't...

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Categories: pretentious, encouraging, inspiration, poets,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member In the Bed They Make
And when will the tides turn against confident indifference?!

When will humanity cease
To throw cats against curiosity’s silver coated dagger

Another played out song
Another dramatic lyric
Shifting embellished...

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Categories: pretentious, life, psychological, slam,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member You Kissed Him In Front of Me
You didn’t notice my tears.

As you both kissed each other
like two lonely plungers
who just escaped from plumber’s solitary confinement,
your eyes open and wander up.

You didn’t...

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Categories: pretentious, girlfriend-boyfriend, love, thank you,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Summer Breeze
Soft lights with warm winds pirouetting in time
whispering its music so perfectly in rhyme

Hearts searching, ever searching for love's sweet caress
Wishing, ever hoping, to so...

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Categories: pretentious, love, summer,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Real Mccoy - Or Is She - POTD
POTD

Synthetic hyper realistic - eclectic not eccentric 
Android Humanoid - naturalistic totally orgasmic
Unnatural physicality this futuristic fem-bot fantasy  
Against all normality she is the...

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Categories: pretentious, desire, future, lust, technology,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Undoubtful Doubt
Could it be
That we will never be?
It cannot be
That we played with fire
Without playing the lyre
Could it be
That you are a liar?
Ready to jump into...

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Categories: pretentious, love, romance,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member No More Soup For Me
I sought a place to post my poems and thought I'd found a fit for me.
At first I was thrilled and felt I belonged to...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pretentious, me,
Form: Elegy
Realities Unbound
Realities Unbound

Thru realities unbound and transfixed
Elders open gates of Temporal Time
Layering Multi-Verses intermixed
Portals welcoming the new paradigm

Angelic voices transport thru the mist
Forging fires in dimensional...

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Categories: pretentious, creation, love, mystery,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Sequestration
I never told anyone how my ears reverberate in a silent room.
The whirring drone ever present, a conquistador of my private spaces.
This is my cohabitation...

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Categories: pretentious, death, loneliness, longing, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stepping Into the Temple
I step into the temple
in search of painted dreams
Figures wrapped in irresistible shine 
they come to life within their fresco prisons
A kaleidoscope of painted saints
powerless...

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Categories: pretentious, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dance To Her Tune
I do not see bright sunlight anymore,
as if the sun was fast fading away.
Autumn's charcoal clouds fuel cold rains that pour
down, sending the children inside...

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Categories: pretentious, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things