Get Your Premium Membership

Best Surreptitious Poems


Surreptitious Breaths
Silken linens scented of 

  last night's rendezvous,

     still wafting midst

         reticent moments, 

cognac and aromatic

   candlelight burning 'neath

      surreptitious breaths, 

  as we...

Continue reading...
© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: surreptitious, dark, desire, love, lust,
Form: Free verse
Surreptitious Storming -Sos
Within the still of the seismic storms,
are voices lost of exhausted echoes…
Where words diminutively degrade,
amidst the condescending copious cyclone;

For upon the swarms of silent whispers,
mounting with ranting ruins of meadows moss…
And in the distance sacrificial screams are heard,
thus they faintly fade and are blown into...

Continue reading...
Categories: surreptitious, silence, storm, voice,
Form: Free verse
A Furtive, Surreptitious Affair
Hands touch, accidentally
Short, deep glances by me, as she looks the other away
Be sure not to get caught
Although I expect she’s doing the same
We can’t do this, can we?
No-one will know, no-one gets hurt, isn’t that the line?
I heard it was just a bit of...

Continue reading...
Categories: surreptitious, lost love, love, passion,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Hello Kitty Man - a Surreptitious Sonnet For Surreptitious Sonnet Day
Once upon a time there was a man
Who had a life so boring no-one knew
That he was there, and nothing fun to do
But work a bit and drive a little van
And buy a Subway and a cheeky can
Of Redbull, or in summer sometimes two
Around and...

Continue reading...
Categories: surreptitious, character, humor, identity, loneliness,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Surreptitious
During our recent, year-long pandemic imprisonment, my room - which, objectively, is a very nice room - seemed to transform, late-nights, into a tomb. I had to open all the windows just to feel like I could breathe. 

Night after night, when the lights were...

Continue reading...
Categories: surreptitious, 12th grade, anxiety, change,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry