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Best Surreal Poems

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


Premium Member SUNDOWN MEDITATION
 

Take a deep breath
Let yourself relax
Close your eyes
Come with me

Inhale
Exhale

Let me guide you
I’ll take you on a magical journey

Give in to the moment
Relax
Breathe
Close your...

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Categories: surreal, adventure, freedom, journey, peace,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Red Leaf
the raspy whisper

finally
 
gets my full attention -
wistfully I smile
..for its persistence reminds me of you..

the crisp red leaf 
scuttles scrapingly
across the gray pavement
to and...

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Categories: surreal, death, emotions, grief, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pirouetting on Cloud Banks
Dancing in space
Waltzing in the universe
Pirouetting on cloud banks
Aah yes
Come with me
Let’s dance together

Ancient flute notes echo
Amidst starshine and lost memories
I feel you there beside...

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Categories: surreal, desire, fantasy, introspection, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Dark Side of October
The Dark Side of October

Late October moon is waking, through this cemetery shaking,
shaking as the cold wind breaking, walking ‘neath an old oak tree.
Stones like...

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Categories: surreal, dark, horror, october, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Pirate Women
Pirate women permeate my spaces.
They are fierce and fabulous.
You dare not lie to them.
They will cut you to shreds, with their swords.

Cut  you to...

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Categories: surreal,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member COSMIC DREAMS


Be it evidence consequence or coincidence
Every night as I succumb to somnolence

Heavenly smoke rings of frankincense
Rise upwards with sweet opulence

Dulcet dreams inevitably commence
Without fanfare hype...

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Categories: surreal, dream, fantasy, night, sleep,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member The Waiting Sleep

I wait while wandering in empty dreams,

where everyone is lost and dying slow.

And in the distance are, unheard, the screams

of anguished souls I’ll never come...

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Categories: surreal,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member RAINBOW


green
            yellow
            ...

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Categories: surreal, color, fantasy, hope, myth,
Form: Concrete
Paper Dolls
she is everything you have seen in the movies
crayola hair
velvet dress
sugar in her veins
tears glued to her face
she fingerpaints the kitchen walls like a little...

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Categories: surreal, addiction, beautiful, emotions, fire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dancing In Horror With Fate In Blackest Abyss Collaboration with Kurt Ravidas
Dancing In Horror With Fate In Blackest Abyss
Collaboration with Kurt Ravidas

I walk mountain storm, step out to cut deep its edge
forever tempting that fall from...

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Categories: surreal, art, dark, evil, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Close Encounter
I'd finished work at ten PM and got in my car
It was dark as I drove home and in the sky noticed a star
Could be...

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Categories: car, fantasy, surreal,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The ***********
The ***********

It has no brain
yet it outsmarts
many little red funny caps
thanks to them
xi virus
will be great again
...

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Categories: america, death, international, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member THE STORM
I BUTTON THE SHUTTERS HIGH AND LOW,
AS HIGH STRONG WINDS BEGIN TO BLOW. 
A NIGHT OF TERROR BEFORE MY EYES,
AS DARK GRAY CLOUDS HAVE FILLED...

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Categories: surreal, adventure, nature, night, perspective,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member For This Is The Story, An Old Poet Sought Not To Miss
For This Is The Story, An Old Poet Sought Not To Miss
 (Part One)

I've ate Eden's last apple, coveted Jason's* golden fleece
chained myself in caverns...

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Categories: surreal, creation, fantasy, hyperbole, mythology,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Emerald Shadows
Trying to hide in conspicuous places
a night on the town in their false, plastic faces.
Sweetly they sweep through magnificent halls,
top-dollar galas and masquerade balls --...

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Categories: surreal, abuse, analogy, betrayal, dance,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member MY HEART SINGS


My heart sings lines of poetry
Inside my head I dance carefree
The grass is cool between spry toes
Serene adrift a purple rose
How summer days so quickly...

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Categories: surreal, fantasy, freedom, heart, nature,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member KOI POND


a lazy stream
meanders
under
sullen
midday sun
beneath a rustic 
wooden bridge
regal koi fish
ride
ceremoniously
humbled
glistening
glittering
rippling
gentle flowing waves     



Published in my photo/poetry book ~KOI POND~ 2020

AP: Honorable...

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Categories: fish, nature, summer, surreal,
Form: Free verse
The Jackson County Fair
In my travels late one night 
upon a country road
Across the fields and in the distance 
something surely glowed
Perhaps a fire over there? 
Though I...

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Categories: dark, scary, surreal,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member NEW YEAR


This year more than ever
I long to surpass myself
The clock is ticking
No longer can I recklessly 
Take the gift of time for granted

I dream this...

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Categories: surreal, art, color, fantasy, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member we are one


I've lost all perception 
                    ...

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Categories: identity, love, soulmate, surreal,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member What If
There we were -
veiled in the sheer-yet-semi-private aura of morning twilight;
where only outlines can be seen
but where everything is felt in its full strength and...

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Categories: surreal, life, lost love, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Brief Encounter
brief encounter

a man invisible
but for his wit
landed on my world 
lightly it seemed 
until he left
...

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Categories: education, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member THE ROAD TO MY FATHER'S HOUSE


The road to my father’s house
is paved with hills and valleys
outstretched horizons
and sunfilled crystal skies

How he loved the land
each slope each field
with a consuming veneration
fueled...

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Categories: surreal, father, love, nature, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What It Isn't
it isn't what it is
it is what it isn't

a window               ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metaphor, simile, surreal, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member HIDDEN MEANING


inexplicable coincidences
mystic synchronicity
divinity at work



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Submitted on March 22, 2019 for contest WRITING CHALLENGE 4, MARCH 2019_KIMO sponsored by DEAR HEART  -...

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Categories: surreal, encouraging, inspirational, mystery, spiritual,
Form: Kimo