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Best Surface Poems

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


Premium Member Melancholic Tree
In the middle of winter
within misty moors,
lies a melancholic meadow.

Up above grey skies foretell
perturbed crows to seek shelter.
Down below, 
an isolated tree - naked and...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: surface, analogy, assonance, deep, sad,
Form: Free verse



Uncharted Waters
An ocean tumbles through dreams of you. In depths unknown,
I float above. Oh, how I long to dive beneath your surface,  
yet I am...

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Categories: surface, appreciation, longing, love, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dreams of India
Dreams of India

Her music haunts me
in such a knowing way
it makes me weep
and causes my heart to ache.

I become homesick for her
scents, her sounds, her...

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Categories: surface, beauty, culture, desire, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupings
you were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you

'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey 
there's not...

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Categories: surface, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Space and Time
Entering the doorway through my heart
Following the nuance of space
Allowing expansion ~ mystery ~ and curiosity
To guide me into realms of spiritual awakening
Journeying through moments...

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Categories: surface, appreciation, beauty, blessing, environment,
Form: Free verse



One Silent Word
He speaks with measured dignity,
one silent word at a time
His palmetto pen tells us: 
Tune out the cosmic background noise,
and focus your mind
on the sound...

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Categories: surface, how i feel, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Editing of Me
My words were rewritten until they became yours
As grammar and syntax perfected your thoughts
Pages lined with highlighters polished me to extinction 

I wanted to resist...

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Categories: surface, conflict, recovery from,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Effervescence
I am here now
Presence my companion
Rising I put my two feet
On the ground
I give thanks as I open my eyes
To this new day
A divine delicious...

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Categories: surface, animal, appreciation, beautiful, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Whispering Memories
Traveling through the doorway in my heart
I emerge
Gently closing it
I place my palms on the worn hinges of time
I lay my ear near its surface
As...

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Categories: surface, appreciation, emotions, green, heart,
Form: Free verse
The Universe of You
I have never seen a flower blush when I took it's hue
and held it there a prisoner captive to my view.

I have always heard the...

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Categories: surface, autumn, beautiful, love, planet,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Book of Her Body
I lift you up, delicately
like a bouquet of flames in pink patient fever,
romantically, I rove your surface with fingertips that tingle,
the texture of your treated...

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Categories: surface, love,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member I Think of You - At the Edge - 3
A reflection of the coloured pencil drawn sky
skates on the glass smooth surface below it.
While a rebellious group of shades take their positions 
on a...

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Categories: surface, introspection, love, nature, nostalgia,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Dragonflies Dancing
Sunlight sparkles on the shimmering pond
its mirror like surface smooth as silk
dragonflies dance across the water 
performing aerial acrobatics like a circus in the air

Water...

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Categories: surface, beauty, dance, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Boldly Go
My training at Starfleet was over, they were now deploying me
I was over the moon when they called; I was full of glee
I entered the...

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Categories: surface, science fiction, space,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Embedded Hieroglyphics
Called to journey
Through the passageway of my heart
I close the door and turn
Exposing myself in full surrender

Fuzzy whiteness vibrates around me
A fleecy cocoon tickles my...

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Categories: surface, beauty, celebration, creation, environment,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things