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Best Rift Poems

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


Premium Member Wire Walker
There’s the tightrope for you to walk, wire walker —

defying the gravity of reality and the reality of gravity
you know damn well he won't catch...

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Categories: rift, betrayal, conflict, husband, jealousy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Despondent Heart
Each walk along the cobblestone of night
reminds me how gladness becomes gloom
a despondent lesion from a heart,
while star-beam winks without a flare.

Here trembles a skyscape...

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Categories: rift, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Romantic Reflections
Romantic Reflections

Gone now are those halcyon days,
Days we spent by sunny shore.
You are gone now and in my haze,
Reflections make me miss you more.

I hear...

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Categories: rift, death, grief, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Silver and Gold - a Friendship Duet
Silver and gold; silver and gold -
our friendship is a sweet treasure -
a bounty of gladness always to hold.
Silver and gold; silver and gold -
a...

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Categories: rift, friendship,
Form: Lyric
Silver and Gold Friendship Duet
Silver and gold; silver and gold -
our friendship is a sweet treasure -
a bounty of gladness always to hold.
Silver and gold; silver and gold -
a...

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Categories: rift, friendship,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Venus Courts Mars On Valentine's Day
A single red, heart-shaped balloon isn’t enough
So I splurge and buy fourteen adorned by cupid
I tie them to the chair of my beloved “Hot Stuff”
To...

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Categories: rift, funny, holidaychocolate,
Form: Quatrain
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: rift, creation, love, mystery,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member City of the Sky Gondola's
The city of Prague
In a different world
Its centre ripped
The whole world heard
 
Its now separated by
Canyons so deep
The day it happened
To hear a country weep
...

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Categories: rift, fantasycity,
Form: Rhyme
One More Last Call
For my Brother and his bipolar journey


With fifty-nine tears, I stare at the phone, wanting to understand.
I had your voice in my hand.
Intense pain now...

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Categories: rift, addiction, brother, character, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Aspie
1—Milieu

Unique construction of body and mind
My niche in human pack not quickly found 
Raw young heart of a curious design
The empty mirrors for my soul...

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Categories: rift, emotions, growing up, introspection,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Breathe
Breathe 

When the night claims you like a wayward leaf of old 
and it takes you to the caves where anything turns gold. 
You don't...

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Categories: rift, image, muse, new year,
Form: Quatrain
Your Humble Servant
To me you are a sacred dream
Each warmest hope upon the day.
A glass of wish from precious stream
Bright trace of sun through clouds of grey.

My...

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Categories: rift, best friend, for her,
Form: Sonnet
Silent Night, Weary Night
Silent night, weary night
Worked all day, worked all night
Worked at baking and wrapping of gifts
Hoping the family wont get in a rift

Ohhh and where is...

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Categories: rift, funny, holiday
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ode To Bobby Fischer
Child of darkness, child of scorn,
the devil danced when you were born,
for demon seed from Morphy passed,
would haunt your days ‘til everlast.

Predestined to die derelict,
an...

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© Eric Cohen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rift, death, eulogy, memorial, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Picture Perfect
I fondle the brush strokes of a brown afternoon,
inviting me along, to the land of down under.
I will take a small journey, under gunmetal skies,...

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Categories: rift, adventure, fantasy, longing,
Form: Ekphrasis

Book: Reflection on the Important Things