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Best Twist Poems

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


Premium Member A Vanilla Dove
Cypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties 
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
the gravel...

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Categories: twist, bird, death, grief, hope,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Letting Go
"Letting Go!"

Behind that garden rail
Where worms squirm and roam,
They dig into every bad part of my day
I feel them crawling, making my hide their home
They...

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Categories: twist, depression, emotions, hate, immigration,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Letter To Rhapsodical Rose

Here, I scribble a letter 
to the rhapsodical rose, 
dipping my quill in 
stardust that slips 
like a violet waterfall 
from the tips of 
white...

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Categories: twist, emotions, fantasy, feelings, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sweet Sugar Cookies and Peanut Butter Bars
"I dream of Candy!"

Sweet cakes and peanut butter squares 
A living diabetic's nightmare. --  My heart 
sings to the beat, Under the Neutron Star...

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Categories: twist, addiction, candy, fantasy, funny,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity,...

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Categories: twist, death, evil, family, fate,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member Rebirth of the Third Angel
A body abandoned 
needs to mourns its last breath in death
a heart cast aside 
still aches to meet its last beat

and a free spirit yearns...

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Categories: twist, angel, beauty, butterfly, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gnarled Shadows
Through shadowed trails, beneath the moon’s cold stare, 
     Its Amber gaze: a burden hard to bear.
This feathered prize found peace...

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Categories: twist, conflict, dark, emotions, gothic,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Love Gift
I saw Love climb upon the wind
Heard the laughter in the breeze
Tasted lilacs, jasmine, and honeysuckle
With a turn and twist Love caressed my skin
The scent...

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Categories: twist, dream, love,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Adrift In the Midst of Gladness and Sadness
Walking upon silent parched paths,
under speechless scarlet skies.
Your name sits upon the tip of my tongue,
listening to the susurration of my heart.
Each vibration echoes tones...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: twist, love, romantic love,
Form: Lyric
Kaleidoscope
through a tiny lens
held firmly with hands
eyes gaze in awe..

with a simple twist
colours explode harmoniously
bright, sparkling,blinding..

the colours are stunning
so vivid, so alive
with truth as in...

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© Lynn Marie  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: twist, faith, hope, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Comb-edy of Hair-ers
My dear brother Butch,

Hair are the highlights of my week:
I got a job at the Hairway to Heaven salon!
Our motto: "We color your hair or...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: twist, hair, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Whip of Your Selfish Whims
O
the bane
of being so slavishly in love,
to face another bloodless sunrise alone.
Myself, I’m spun in silken strands enthralled       ...

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Categories: twist, desire, emotions, longing, love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Clementine Duet
When tuscan tunes of twilight,
cascade as clementine confetti, 
She searches for secret silhouettes,
swirling to the symphony 
of sunflower serenades.

In the midst of faded fields,
marigold memories...

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Categories: twist, earth, emotions, moon, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library
Toddlers' Exploration: 

Cardboard drum, a thunderous beast,
Playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide, dreams just out of reach,
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles...

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Categories: twist, adventure, books, childhood, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Face Like Thunder POTD
I was a planetary climatologist, who studied climate variability and change,
Like sweet variability of stunning, green tulips, in lavish garden rearranged.

Studying the said effects on...

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Categories: twist, fantasy, flower, imagery, nature,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs