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Best Torso Poems

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


Premium Member Melancholic Tree
In the middle of winter
within misty moors,
lies a melancholic meadow.

Up above grey skies foretell
perturbed crows to seek shelter.
Down below, 
an isolated tree - naked and...

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Categories: torso, analogy, assonance, deep, sad,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member My Melodious Muse
** I apologize, but if you're viewing this on a phone, it probably wont look right, as the browser page on a phone is not...

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Categories: torso, analogy, inspiration, love, metaphor,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Princess of the Petals
Beyond her veil;

eyes induced by secretive stars
became drawn to a path illuminated by 
flickering, shimmering pale moonlight.
Each spirited step led to the 
revelation of her...

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Categories: torso, analogy, deep, silence,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Visitor - POTW- A Collaboration With July Morning
POTW 28 January 2018

Prologue:
A beautiful extra-terrestrial female researcher is sent down to a remote island to observe earth and beam her findings back to her...

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Categories: torso, adventure, romance, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Cry For Wind
Fly so fast, cry for wind
Carry me between your wings
Me, me, tiny, olive skinned
Blood of beggars, blood of kings

Lost forever, never found
Roar your cry across...

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Categories: torso, analogy, animal, beautiful, bird,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member The Belly Dancer

.........The Belly Dancer.........

Stood beside her teacher on the stage.
Young, brunette. Hip hugger magenta 
jeans and a short bandana shoulder 
less top...
Her young heart leapt with...

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Categories: torso, dance, love, romantic love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tree
A murder of crows screech my funeral song,
disturbing the eerie silence that surrounds.
Heartless hands have left scars etched into my crumbling bark,
as bleeding sap drips...

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Categories: torso, destiny, earth, loss, silence,
Form: Personification
Premium Member In the Light of the Moon
Many months we have waited
Our time has finally come
No more do we hide our feelings
This evening is when they succumb

As I await overlooking the bay
We...

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Categories: torso, life, love, passion
Form: Rhyme
If Ever
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    And if ever my lips are
               touched
...

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Categories: torso, love,
Form: Free verse
Seven Things Saved From the Burning House
2
My head’n’eck will be saved,
it is where everything else exists,
not just my hair, though that's also okay.

3, 4
My arms, right (3) and left (4),
I'll need...

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Categories: torso, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Am
Who am I is a question,
That baffles and confuses me.
Aren’t I a stranger to myself,
When in me angels and demons cohabit,
Dwelling side by side.

Sometimes I...

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Categories: torso, i am, life, light,
Form: Free verse
Why
I still hear    the stray cat clink of your teeth
       smell    a rage...

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Categories: torso, recovery from,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Wedding
Wedding Night in Raqqa

Cyclonic violet vision

Etheral and immortal

She swirls her sand baked torso.

Evoking the initial collision of primordial seed,

Swathed in gossamer purple veils,

Writhing to the...

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Categories: torso, adventure, husband, life, me,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Drunk In a Bunk - Limerick Collaboration - Do Join In the Fun
I once knew a woman called Terri
Who always was sipping the sherry
She got steaming drunk
And fell off her bunk
The medics described her as ‘merry’

WRITTEN BY...

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Categories: torso, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Adieu - Part 1
Do you remember?
We lay in the moonlight, exhausted and content,
Moments from perfection, skin glistening with moisture,
Salty and sweet from love - love so amazing
That it...

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Categories: torso, heartbreak, love, passion, romantic,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs