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Best Spasm Poems

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


Premium Member Microshot
When looking for a quack with spiked rates
Some try the Windowed Office of Bill Gates
Coz right on the spot
He’ll give you a shot
But be prepared...

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Categories: spasm, angst, corruption,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member I Saw the Great and Mighty Wave
I Saw The Great And Mighty Wave


I saw the great and mighty wave
As it came,
The emerald glistening of its heart,
A chasing spasm under blue-lit sky
Dawn's...

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Categories: spasm, art, deep, emotions, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Peach Tree
They would ripen all at once
under a hot sun and hang
in a sugary glut only for a day 
or two before starting to spoil. 
I...

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Categories: spasm, child, god, nostalgia, sin,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Star Scream
I want you to feed me my only fear,
to make a ritual of the ruddy rain I hear
deluge my dreams with Love's broken mirror,
our inspiration...

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Categories: spasm, inspirational love, lost love,
Form: Ballad
The Thing In the Pool
I drown you in wine, the goddamn squatter 
who lives in me. Flow, Lethe, dark and deep!
But even through a drunken dreamless sleep,
like a nude...

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Categories: spasm, death, fear, river,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Abyss of Void
The seamless sky called life glowed with cloudless beauty,
on the rippling breeze flitted a butterfly free,
on its wings I painted lattice of my being.
Flowers of...

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Categories: spasm, dream, fantasy, heartbreak, metaphor,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Amid the Jagged Shadows
" Amid the jagged shadows of mossy leafless boughs"
  - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Gold tinged paints dripped from the air,
under the clear opalescent autumn sky,
jade...

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Categories: spasm, analogy, bird, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Unchained
How many suns have I seen?
I hope I see thousands more.

But I don't want to lie awake,
begging for sleep, for puzzle-piece dreams,
crossed wires beneath my...

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Categories: spasm, life, loss, solitude, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Night Has Come
Night has come, the fog is slowly wreathing
Crying soft, a form is moving forward
Now she walks through mist, 'tween shadows seething

Past the ancient walls she...

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Categories: spasm, grief, lonely, loss, war,
Form: Terzanelle
Nothing Happened Here
Windowless space screams
Feet spasm in betrayal
It's too late to change his fate
             ...

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Categories: spasm, death
Form: Choka
Premium Member The Dying Wasp
She vibrates, a chassis minus shock absorption.
A painting, the nude descends a staircase,
rings of Saturn etched in a vacuum tube.
Or Eniac of twisted cords and...

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Categories: spasm, insect, technology,
Form: Imagism
Lovers Moon
When blue sky has drawn its veil
That's when passions will prevail
Within the dark of nights closed eyes
Entangled lovers sweat and writhe

A fervent lust. A human...

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Categories: spasm, joy, sky, , sweet
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My New Girlfriend
I ask Freya of the cool blue North
To be my special Magic Goddess 
Naked in Her clicking high heels
Freya, my new fantasy friend 
At my...

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Categories: spasm, beauty, dream, fantasy, girlfriend,
Form: Free verse
Love Again
LOVE    AGAIN

On this day, when tricky  time
Has already turned  love  into  wry rust,
When forgetting dominates 
Bits- and -pieces...

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Categories: spasm, love, old,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Fallen Down
* This is a rather intricate form I created called a “Torridelle” - I hope you enjoy it! *

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Categories: spasm, imagery, metaphor, muse, passion,
Form: Rhyme

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