Best Startling Poems
Below are the all-time best Startling poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of startling poems written by PoetrySoup members
Tears On Her Pillow - Continued From a Girl Named Sue
Tears for a Mother
Fears for a Father gone
Fate deals an unfair hand
The door to youthful joy closing
on adolescent shoulders imposing
grown up responsibilities instead
Eyes sadly deprived...
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Categories:
startling, fate, first love, hope,
Form:
Free verse
A Bad Day At the Eye Doctor's- a True Story"It was 6 or 7 years ago
Or so I'd like to think
I traveled to my eye doctor..
(I should'a seen a "shrink"!!)
My dad and I we...
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Categories:
startling, funny, life, mystery, me,
Form:
Burlesque
In the Chill of An Open DoorCleaning out my refrigerator, an ice cube slides to the floor
startling the cat, and interrupting a locomotive of thought
that often tracks me down in a...
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Categories:
startling, angst, caregiving, death, father,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Seduce Me In Black and White - Erotic Verse
Seduce me in Black and White
You reach toward my face
and touch my lips
Tracing the slightly raised pink curve of them
gently - lightly - before
the urge...
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Categories:
startling, sensual, sexy,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
startling, death, inspirational, loss, love,
Form:
Narrative
It Is You
It is you, who makes my sweetest dreams come true.
You inspire my heart with love that stirs my dreams,
Kiss away my fears with passion that’s...
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Categories:
startling, i love you, love,
Form:
Terza Rima
An Enchanted DoorwayI was a sophisticated, world class traveler, like merry wind in green trees.
I had seen hottest deserts and rain forests, where songs will never cease.
I...
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Categories:
startling, adventure, beauty, fantasy, imagery,
Form:
Couplet
We Are So DifferentWe are so different
I am smart, you are less so
I am a man, you are a woman
I am trump, you are poor
I am beautiful, you...
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Categories:
startling, arabic, child, forgiveness, life,
Form:
Free verse
LockdownSolitary sun in sapphire skies,
beams its rays upon Earth's radiance.
A tepid breeze flows between
daffodils and bluebells, gently rocking.
Spring is in the air,
yet streets remain silent.
Masked...
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Categories:
startling, angst, environment, hope, spring,
Form:
Alliteration
Not Even CloseA musical throng of 400,000 strong invaded a dairy farm in New York in 1969,
which set fire to the 70’s; but there was no...
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Categories:
startling, growing up, life, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Vivaldi ViolinVivaldi’s Violin
The sound begins vague as a thought from perhaps
a misted remembrance made more distant more soft
in the surrounding sunset not trusting...
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Categories:
startling, christian, imagery, inspiration, joy,
Form:
Prose
Our Place in the SunI was an eminent, solar physicist, like the blushing rose, craving renown.
Each butterscotch morning I drove to work, and toiled until red sundown.
The observatory was...
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Categories:
startling, fantasy, imagery, leaving, mystery,
Form:
Couplet
Angel SentTwo years ago, when I was down,
I’d lost my father to cancer found.
My life was empty and full of pain,
I never thought I would feel...
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Categories:
startling, angel, heaven, pain,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
startling, analogy, appreciation, character,
Form:
Free verse
Morning MistThe mist swirls through the deep vale
shifting slowly and giving glimpses
of the lush vegetation and flowers.
Slowly it dissipates in dawn's sunlight.
Teasing as it lazily drifts...
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Categories:
startling, life, nature, spring,
Form:
Ode