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Best Tangential Poems

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


Tangential Reality
Casting aside the blunt reality
My conscious swims into the realm of all possibilities
The transition is totally automatic
I wonder if they are my subconscious' semantic
Different scenarios...

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Categories: tangential, humorous, imagination, introspection, philosophy,
Form: I do not know?



Collateral Lamb
Thus I sail the sacrificial scabrous seas and touch tormented tides
Battle-scarred in the breeze and washed ashore where evil hides
The Sun regrettably retreats where malice...

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Categories: tangential, abuse, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Who Are We At Our Core
An evanescent bouquet of skewed briars,
is how a tinsel laden tawdry essence wickedly unfolds,
scuppered signpost to a fetid human compost,
faint light pendant on soul crushed...

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Categories: tangential, art, beautiful, beauty, care,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spontaneity
"discarding narrow thought flow crutch
we learn directly by soft touch
and what we garner we relay
to the vast void in childlike play
entwined thus with the universe
we...

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Categories: tangential, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Clued Into oneself
An evanescent bouquet of skewed briars,
is how a  tinsel laden tawdry essence wickedly unfolds ,
scuppered signpost to a fetid  human  compost,
faint light...

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Categories: tangential, care, character, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Climates of Ballistic Management
Senator Fuller,
a permaculture designer
turned architect of exterior landscapes
then public sector architect
of EarthShip cooperative interior landscapes,
is with us today
to tell us about why he supports Sanders,
at...

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Categories: tangential, destiny, earth, health, humor,
Form: Prose Poetry
Written In Beige
Written In Beige

Against the bleak bank wall he leans
as the sidewalk moves sideways
across his tangential thoughts.
People pass, the dull parade,
the money-grubbers and hoarders
in their shiny...

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Categories: tangential, identity, metaphor, tribute,
Form: Ekphrasis
January 8, 2011
TRAUMA BAY

Of true evil, I’d had barely a peek
But this day would be an education
A full immersion in the fetid reek
The foul depths of his...

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Categories: tangential, courage, evil, history, recovery
Form: Rhyme Royal
Premium Member Pray For the Lord
Simple Prayer

God whoever you are and wherever you may seem to be hiding
in times situations and places when confusion reigns and I fail to
see please...

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Categories: tangential, god,
Form: Free verse
Battle Axe and Her Republican Trumpeting Waze - Part 1
Upon bitterly cold dawning hours of one January 2000 day
the Harns family desperately sought a place to live – “hay
there” Nelson Swartley (an independent realtor)...

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Categories: tangential, evil, grave, house, life,
Form: I do not know?
Ripples In the Water
Envy in the eyes of sky
At the concentric circles of
Expanding beauty
To disappear from where it rose
Leaving behind
Poems that we read
To be happy

Here water is golden
There...

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Categories: tangential, blue, boat, death, life,
Form: Free verse
Something New
I wake up at a different time and place each breaking morning
And set a new path on this earth that beggars all forewarning
One day I’ll...

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Categories: tangential, irony,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Discard Flat Packs Have Faith
Discard Flat Packs Have Faith

There is a God of the Universe parallel that is and I call 
her freedom ‘Come into my space’ she seems...

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Categories: tangential, god, universe,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Denouement
Denouement

The plot thickens broadens in plastered confused juxtapositions
over time there and then weaves tapestries lost unfound caught

Viscous tears dried out shed rivers searching oases oceans...

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Categories: tangential, change,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Choose the Fastest Looking Horse
I CHOOSE THE FASTEST LOOKING HORSE
MUSCULAR YET SLEEK IN SHAPE
WITH A FIXED LOOK OF DETERMINATION
A BODY OF BRIGHT COLORS 
AND A SADDLE AND BLANKET TO...

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Categories: tangential, funny, life, world, me,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Shattered Sighs