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Best Superficial Poems

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


Premium Member Eternal Life and the Total Self

Life is but a fleeting whisper echoing through time,
never dying, always being- magnificent and sublime.
The body's a receptacle, a superficial shell,
but in it dwells the...

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Categories: superficial, death,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Moonstones in Artless Skies
It feels like the world
has been struck by a 
plague of pathological lies,
where fictional truth 
seems to sell better,
the allure of
imitation glistens 
even brighter, 
while...

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Categories: superficial, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lift Somebody's Dawn
Learn from the eagle how to soar with winds
Spanning your wings to conquer tall peaks 
Float hopes high reaching sapphire blue skies
Triumph with your smile...

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Categories: superficial, encouraging, inspiration, meaningful, youth,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member To My Children
Drive mindfully, dear children, as you traverse hurdled highways of life,
Cognizant that adjacent to an oasis of joy, lies a desert brooding strife;
Assume charge of...

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Categories: superficial, children, encouraging, family, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Vanity
There lives a silent evil deep within
Which once was locked inside Pandora's box
Now said to be the "father of all sin"
And one's denial is it's...

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Categories: superficial, vanity,
Form: Sonnet



Thoughts On Mgk Eminem Diss, It's Just What I Noticed
Beard looks weird,
that's a lyrical genius to be feared,
you wrote a 6 year song and got the facts wrong,
fired with the hair and safety still...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: superficial, hip hop, humorous, rap,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ante Bellum
“ANTE BELLUM”


BEIGEBest served where it can’t be seen
On Stirling Silver platters
With redruM narcotics
Delivered by sharp Blood-Red
Well-mannered talons
Strutting in sleek wet rolling tight-skirted
Long French Silk Stockinged...

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Categories: superficial, america, bible, corruption, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Dark Skinned Vs Light Skinned
In our Asian-cum-Eastern land
No one prefers or admires
the dark-skinned or tanned

Gosh, as if the fair-skinned alone
belonged to the so-called fairer sex
And here, 'black is beauty'...

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Categories: superficial, color, prejudice, race, ,
Form: Rhyme
Tiny Fractures of Death
As the clock ticks on,
the soul
encounters 
tiny fractures of death

hairline cracks
seemingly invisible, superficial
yet they run deep

one
      more
   ...

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Categories: superficial, depression, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Lonely
Slowly he opened the drawer and looked inside.  Some time had passed since he last gazed upon the cloth that lay there.  Years...

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Categories: superficial, depression,
Form: Prose
Layers
Layers

Strip away the superficial.
Place political correctness aside.
Forgive hurts of the past.
Erase all tension and harsh feelings.
Seek thoughts of love and understanding.
This is what you’ll find.
I’m...

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Categories: superficial, identity, meaningful, people, together,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Existential Essence
In the vast algorithmic wilderness, we search for truth...

In the chaos of digital existence,
we navigate the maze of virtual connections,
seeking answers in the pixels that
form...

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Categories: superficial, culture, environment, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Dream Big
Why not the dreams of castled kings 
          With rubied thrones and emerald rings  
If...

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Categories: superficial, dream, how i feel,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Sensual Scent of Summer
Coconut tropical oil 
Glistening on my skin
The scent intoxicates me
As I bask in the sun
And drink in the beauty
Of the sparkling Mediterranean Sea

It’s only for...

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Categories: superficial, sea, senses, sensual, summer,
Form: Free verse
Dance, Was My Release
Pain had I ignited bright
Through my silence, had my hurt worsened
Denied conversations with all for superficial reasons, I had
Forgetting that love was my life
And people...

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Categories: superficial, change, dance, forgiveness, heart,
Form: Sestina

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