Get Your Premium Membership

Best Thickened Poems

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


Premium Member Look Closely
Look closely,  feel the harmless heat 
enveloping black-diamond 
         petals in the glistening
   ...

Read more of this work...
Categories: thickened, deep,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Disorientation
Somethings are best 
said through blank
scriptures in sheer 
silence, but pulling the 
violin strings of
a poet strumming
to personify pain, 
with tempests of 
torment rushing 
through...

Read more of this work...
Categories: thickened, angst, emotions, gothic, jealousy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dark
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before”
Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven.



I’m...

Read more of this work...
Categories: thickened, dark, deep, moon,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I can’t believe I thought that
I can’t believe I thought that there’d be no darkness when it’s dawn,
I’ll be your queen of hearts, even if the cosmos did crack, 
‘forever’...

Read more of this work...
Categories: thickened, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Slumber
Repulsive Slumber  

Down the basement, 
not a single color of envy,
flat-lines, are standing still all around.
The stillness is suffocating,
everything coming my way.
Different from,
the morals,
of...

Read more of this work...
Categories: thickened, dedication, slam,
Form: Epic



Oh Daughter Mine
Be proud of your scars
oh daughter mine
now a mother of children dear
Remember the time
they suckled your breast
gorging on the food of love
Worried lines on your...

Read more of this work...
Categories: thickened, daughter, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ekphrasis On the Magpie By Monet
A lonesome magpie~
perching on a forlorn wooden stairs
on a snowcapped mountain side
spells serenity in the day light.

The barn house reflects
the pale lavender shadows~
a soft blend...

Read more of this work...
© Jcb Brul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: thickened, appreciation, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Unfulfilling Love
Dormant desires within derelict deserts’
Winds whispering of your selective stealth
Frozen fingers that chill the empty spaces
Longing for you a pacifier of thickened thorns
Discombobulation drives the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: thickened, conflict, longing, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Life's Undiscovered Passion
LIFE'S UNDISCOVERED PASSION 

I reached up far to touch a star.
It only took a second.
I thought I heard a salient call 
alas it did not...

Read more of this work...
Categories: thickened, art, creation, growth, identity,
Form: Rhyme
God Answers Aunt Kate-Repost
For the last few days
     her depression had weighed
          heavy, a thick...

Read more of this work...
Categories: thickened, adventure, depression, funny, hope,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Ode To a President
Many Americans, at least it would seem,
Win Megabuck lotteries, inside their day dreams;
What will I do now, with all of this loot? 
I’ll jet far...

Read more of this work...
Categories: thickened, america, appreciation, blessing, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cleansing the Dust
My shoulders drag through whirls of crescent night 
under a wooden bridge this heart retains,
a pile of thickened ash 
where reason hangs on edge, hollow...

Read more of this work...
Categories: thickened, pain, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
No Fear
There is a place inside my head
Where thoughts of other worlds will tread
When I awaken from a dream
Standing alongside a purple stream
With a lime green...

Read more of this work...
Categories: thickened, adventure, death, dedication, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Becoming Invisible
Somehow, the deluge of cloudburst
unwraps my flesh pallid, as if to spill
holy water--maybe thickened dew—just
to give a name to lapses of my unheard cries,
while an...

Read more of this work...
Categories: thickened, absence, loneliness,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Anywhere But Nowhere
When ceilings were cast on dreams
air thickened, swelling lungs 
with unbreathable mediocrity

pen is clutched
in reluctance of dim witted judgement,
small minded skewed views,
all pushing towards 
Oprah...

Read more of this work...
Categories: thickened, introspection
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs