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Best Surfacing Poems

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


Premium Member WHO WAS SHE
 WHO WAS SHE

I intuited the radiance before
I even laid eyes on her
Moving with a self-assured poise
that came from deep within
was a quintessence of a...

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Categories: surfacing, romance, romantic love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member For Shame
The inky black water sucks her in further
As she descends into the black depths of the abyss
Cloying dark swirls cover her head as soundlessly it...

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Categories: surfacing, betrayal, environment, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Living Love Fire
Take a look my Love
do you see how the diamonds of our dreams
are burning so brightly and violently
silhouetting the lips of our wishes against the...

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Categories: surfacing, inspirational, love,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Courting the Sublime Significance of Nothingness
"Courting the Sublime Significance of Nothingness"



The blue lines ripple like waves
to the right side of the page
vacantly calm 

from the shallow depths 
of the ponderous...

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Categories: surfacing, bullying, poets, symbolism, word
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Such Does Exist
I ran out of breath on the road to Mumbai ...

    Not for sake of dust or smog or even health. I...

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Categories: surfacing, appreciation, beauty, imagery, travel,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Herring Gull
I am known as a sky rat, or a beach thief,
most call me a seagull and a nuisance.
I love to fly across the ocean freely,...

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Categories: surfacing, appreciation, beach, bird,
Form: Personification
Divergent Equilibrist
*                       *
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Categories: surfacing, butterfly, destiny, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Holy Land, Your Place, Your Flesh -
Would you crusade to remote regions
in search of that timeless tomb, the one made of seasalt & sandstone,
to towns tempered by the terror of war,...

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Categories: surfacing, faith, prayer,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Hope For Nessie
Oh, dear Nessie, how you captivate us
when you rise up within the Loch Ness shores.
You swim and slither just above the surface,
serpentine and solid to...

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Categories: surfacing, animal, myth,
Form: Free verse
The Wild One
Raven, rook, black as soot; peck the eyes, erase the lies

Eagle, buzzard, kite makes three; tend the land with sight that sees

On wings, on horse-back,...

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Categories: surfacing, animal, creation, dance, desire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Legend In Our Time
A legend in our time,
Nessie lives in Loch Ness. 
And while monster to some,
he is loved by the press.

Moonbeams gilded the waves,
like golden filagree.		
And it’s...

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Categories: surfacing, beautiful, celebrity, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
The Forgotten
The Forgotten

Silhouetted shadows that grasp the ground
That will never be seen and never be found
Within the walls of the lost and hidden
Behind the tears of...

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Categories: surfacing, abuse, heartbroken, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Silver Strands
Mirror mirror on the wall
I went to the beauty salon today
Silver strands ~ gone
Long dark wavy hair ~ beautiful 
Bet you're jealous ~ ha

Twirling away...

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Categories: surfacing, emotions, hair, humor, mirror,
Form: Free verse
Oblivion's Obituary Mty
…the greatest poet who ever lived
…our Lord Jesus Christ

Wishes that wash upon the shallow shore,
Lacrimal lesions of the holographic whore…
Tectonic temptations, the lava shall pour,
Unleashing...

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Categories: surfacing, jesus, judgement, spoken word,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Cry For Help
My name is Peter the Pelican
I'm nothing special at all
I fly around as I'm supposed to
But this day I was close to a fall

Every day...

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Categories: surfacing, animals, life, loss, sad,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Reflection on the Important Things