Get Your Premium Membership

Best Wraith Poems

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


Premium Member I Wore Your Skin
~I wore your skin~

Brother, I wore your skin last night
Nothing but friction, blood -dry ink
Announcing a crush "Silence by the Sky!"
Integrity denied, endangered enemy

Brother, I...

Read more of this work...
Categories: wraith, anger, bullying, dark, deep,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member All I Am
Long slender tendril of mist in the morning
snakes slowly across the cool water, wandering,
endlessly,
searching, moving slowly, seemingly without purpose,
without direction, without destination.
It fades like a...

Read more of this work...
Categories: wraith, longing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Escape of the Bluesman's Song
Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...

Read more of this work...
Categories: wraith, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Kept Woman
Dream-worker 
delves deeply into my dream;

vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed 
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine...

Read more of this work...
Categories: wraith, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tin Foil Hearts
On pensive planes of wraith-like existence,
Are stoic shadows feigning affection;
Crimson lips of withering consistence,
Have lost their craze for craving confection.

Tear-filling prisms tilling a rueing sphere,
Pathos...

Read more of this work...
Categories: wraith, life, lost love, sad
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Your Love Redeemed My Faith In Hope
Your Love Redeemed My Faith In Hope
 

Across the dance floor, your soft sashaying gown flew
with its bright waving gleams of silver dust and blue;
within...

Read more of this work...
Categories: wraith, blessing, future, heart, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Komorebi
i Trees

A kaleidoscope cathedral rustling,
hustling life-light into every thinning limb.
Earth-emblems embalming every rogue
marauding cell in resin. Violent poppies
dripping blood-petals on never-ending war.
Wood knots are eyes,...

Read more of this work...
Categories: wraith, imagery, light, metaphor, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Poem of Ruth
The tears well up, and scarce could she not moan
When father, brother, husband, all have died.
She now has no possessions, neither home,
But travels to a...

Read more of this work...
Categories: wraith, bible, devotion, faith, journey,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Your Love Redeemed My Faith In Hope - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
Across the dance floor, your soft sashaying gown flew
with its bright waving gleams of silver dust and blue;
within that blessed gaze, lonesome heart jumped a...

Read more of this work...
Categories: wraith, emotions, hope, romantic love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Excalibur
Some fun with Shakespearean Sonnet

The sword locked tight and firm within the stone
awaits a heart with strong undaunted faith,
oft tempered hard by fire the dragon's...

Read more of this work...
Categories: wraith, truth,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member 'separation' - the Art of Edvard Munch
When love is torn asunder and there is nothing left but dissent,
a lover's heart will be shattered, mortally wounded and rent.
In a relationship that was...

Read more of this work...
© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wraith, lost love,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Breaching the Barrier of Cries and Goodbyes
Once more you appear, crossing my threshold
after breaking the lock to memory's door.
Your illusion enters without bothering to knock,
stepping into my room as a wavering...

Read more of this work...
© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wraith, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member A Mountain-Moving Love
Rumi Verse
("I want that love that moved the mountains.
I want that love that split the ocean.
I want that love that made the winds tremble")
 ...

Read more of this work...
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wraith, analogy, appreciation, love, mountains,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Murder Most Foul
I am having that dream of dreams again
The one that wakes me up in the night
         ...

Read more of this work...
© Jc Hawkens  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wraith, autumn, beautiful, best friend,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Truth To Truth
TRUE ...

You know not those dark
Places, mine, the dull, black
Chasms that hold a mind
When it's bare - stark and

Keen and cold ... when it's
Left with...

Read more of this work...
Categories: wraith, conflict, devotion, heartbreak, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things